1929 in architecture
The year 1929 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.Events
Buildings opened
- April – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Brooklyn, New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
- July 23 – Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- August 24 – Baker City Tower hotel, Baker City, Oregon, designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel.
- October 3 – Dominion Theatre, London, England, designed by W. and T. R. Milburn.
- December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London headquarters, 55 Broadway, designed by Charles Holden.
Buildings completed
- Station reconstructions on Berlin U-Bahn, designed by Alfred Grenander.
- The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
- Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario; it becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
- Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, England, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
- Lovell House in Los Angeles, designed by Richard Neutra.
- E-1027 vacation home at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France, designed for themselves by Eileen Gray and her lover Jean Badovici.
- Imperial Chemical House on Millbank, Westminster, London, designed by Frank Baines.
- Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
- Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Richfield Tower in Los Angeles, designed by Stiles O. Clements.
- Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain, designed by José Espeliú.
- Melnikov-House, designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
- Rodmarton Manor in Gloucestershire, England, designed by the Barnsley brothers and Norman Jewson.
- Functionalist villa by Bohdan Lachert in Warsaw, Poland.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Milton Bennett Medary
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Victor Laloux
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – :fr:Jean Niermans|Jean Niermans
Births
- January 11 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist
- February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- April 3 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bengal-born structural engineer
- May 22 – Neave Brown, American-born British residential architect
- June 15 – Derek Walker, English architect and urban planner
- July 13 - Richard Vyškovský, 90, Czech architect and creator of paper models
- October 11 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
Deaths
- January 25 – Ralph Knott, English architect
- February 24 – Lucien Weissenburger, French Art Nouveau architect
- April 4 – Francis Conroy Sullivan, Canadian architect and pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright
- August 27 – James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury
- September 13 – Sir Robert Lorimer, Scottish architect and furniture designer
- October 15 – Émile Bénard, French architect and painter
- December 10 – Axel Berg, prize-winning Danish architect
