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Overview of the events of 1910 in architecture
The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
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January 22 –
Flinders Street railway station in
Melbourne,
Australia, designed by
Fawcett and Ashworth.
- February –
Birmingham Oratory in
Birmingham, England, designed by
Edward Doran Webb.
[1]
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May 11 –
Pan American Union Building,
Washington, D.C., designed by
Paul Philippe Cret and
Albert Kelsey.
- June –
Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in
Baku,
Azerbaijan.
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July 31 –
Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham.
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August 5 –
Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by
Willard T. Sears.
[2]
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November 27 –
Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by
McKim, Mead and White.
Buildings completed
- The
Renauld Bank in
Nancy, designed by
Émile André and
Paul Charbonnier.
- The
Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier.
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Casa Milà in
Barcelona, designed by
Antoni Gaudí.
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Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz,
Vienna, designed by
Adolf Loos.
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Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
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Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem.
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Gereonshaus in
Cologne, designed by
Carl Moritz.
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National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by
Herman Gesellius,
Armas Lindgren and
Eliel Saarinen.
[3]
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Liberty Tower (Manhattan) in New York, designed by
Henry Ives Cobb.
- Giesshübel warehouse in
Zürich, Switzerland, designed by
Robert Maillart.
- Catholic
church of St John the Baptist, Norwich, England, to the 1882 design of
George Gilbert Scott Jr.
Awards
Births
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May 23 – Sir
Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died
1999)
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June 26 –
Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of
Chandigarh (died
1950)
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July 2 –
Richard Sheppard, English architect specializing in educational buildings (died
1982)
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August 7 –
Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born architectural photographer (died
2007)
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August 12 –
Eliot Noyes, American architect and industrial designer (died
1977)
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August 20 –
Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died
1961), son of
Eliel Saarinen
Deaths
References