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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Year nav topic5|1921|architecture}} The year '''1921 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. ==Events== * March – [[Puhl & Wagner]] are contracted to decorate the interior of the [[Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall)]] with [[neo-Byzantine]] [[mosaic]]s designed by [[Einar Forseth]]. * [[March 21]] – [[Teatro Yagüez]] in [[Puerto Rico]], designed by José Sabàs Honoré, reopens. * [[May 27]] – A Buddha image is enshrined in the main hall of the [[Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission]] in Hawai'i, as part of a dedication ceremony for the building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/hpd/register/reghaw.pdf |title=Historic Places in Hawaii County |work=official state web site |accessdate= 2010-04-19 }}</ref> * [[September 5]] – The [[Cervantes Theatre (Buenos Aires)|Cervantes Theatre]] in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of [[Lope de Vega]]'s ''[[La dama boba]]''.<ref>[http://www.teatrocervantes.gov.ar/sitio/site/home/home.php Teatro Cervantes {{in lang|es}}]</ref> * [[Hugo Häring]] and [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass. * Construction work begins on the [[Watts Towers]] in [[Los Angeles]], designed by [[Simon Rodia]]. ==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1921}} ===Buildings opened=== *[[January 23]] – [[Ohel Rachel Synagogue]] in [[Shanghai]], China, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated. *[[March 3]] – New terminal at the [[Central railway station, Sydney]], Australia, complete with clock tower.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sydneytrains.info/about/history/central_station_in-depth |title=Central Station - in-depth history |work=[[Sydney Trains]] |publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]] |date= |access-date=3 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810221634/http://sydneytrains.info/about/history/central_station_in-depth |archive-date=10 August 2013 }}</ref> *[[May 2]] – [[Cunard Building (New York City)]], designed by [[Benjamin Wistar Morris (architect)|Benjamin Wistar Morris]] with consultants [[Carrère and Hastings]]. *[[October 26]] – The [[Chicago Theatre]] movie palace in the United States.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.compassrose.org/balaban-and-katz/Chicago-Theatre.html| accessdate=June 13, 2014| publisher=Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads, Inc.| title=Historic Theatres & Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz: The Chicago Theatre, A Brief History| work=Uptown Chicago Resources (online)| year=2007}}</ref> *[[October 28]] – The Theater Pathé [[Tuschinski Theatre|Tuschinski]] movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong. ===Buildings completed=== [[File:Einsteinturm 7443.jpg|thumb|[[Einstein Tower]]]] * The [[Einstein Tower]] near [[Potsdam]], [[Germany]], designed by [[Erich Mendelsohn]].<ref>Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen und Lucas Elmenhorst, ''Architekturführer Potsdam – Architectural Guide'', Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2006, {{ISBN|3-496-01325-7}}.</ref> * Berliner Tageblatt, designed by [[Erich Mendelsohn]]. * [[Harkness Tower]] in [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], [[United States]], after 4 years of construction. * The [[Corn Palace]] in [[Mitchell, South Dakota]], [[United States]] is completed (except for domes added in 1937). * The [[Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)]] is moved to its current site and completed. * New Hindu [[Durgiana Temple]] in [[Amritsar]]. * [[Michel de Klerk]]'s [[Het Schip]] housing development for Eigen Haard in Amsterdam. * [[:File:Monument to the March dead.jpg|Monument to the March Dead]] (''Denkmal der Märzgefallenen''), by [[Walter Gropius]] in [[Weimar]], Germany. * The [[Mayslake Peabody Estate]] in [[Oak Brook, Illinois]], United States. * [[The Wolseley|Wolseley House]] (showroom and offices), 160 [[Piccadilly]], London, designed by [[William Curtis Green]]. ==Designs== * [[Adolf Loos]] designs a [[Adolf Loos's Dvořák mausoleum|mausoleum for Max Dvořák]] that is never built.<ref name="Masheck2013">{{cite book|first=Joseph|last=Masheck|title=Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26iAtKX8wREC|date=2013-05-15|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-78076-423-8|page=254}}</ref> ==Awards== * [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Architecture|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal]] – [[Cass Gilbert]]. * [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Edwin Lutyens]]. ==Births== * [[January 15]] – [[Ulrich Franzen]], German-born American "Brutalist" architect,<ref>Vitello, Paul (14 October 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/arts/design/ulrich-franzen-architect-of-new-york-buildings-dies-at-91.html Ulrich Franzen, Designer of Brutalist Buildings, Dies at 91], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> in [[Düsseldorf]] (died [[2012 in architecture|2012]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Angelo Mangiarotti]], Italian architect and industrial designer, in [[Milan]] (died [[2012 in architecture|2012]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Ada Louise Huxtable]], New York architecture critic and writer (died [[2013 in architecture|2013]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Colin Madigan]], Australian architect (died [[2011 in architecture|2011]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava]], Russian-born Belarusian architect (died [[2015 in architecture|2015]]) ==Deaths== [[File:Martin Nyrop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Martin Nyrop]]]] * [[March 3]] – [[Pierre Cuypers]], Dutch church and museum architect (born [[1827 in architecture|1827]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Martin Nyrop]], Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born [[1849 in architecture|1849]])<ref>Funder, Lise (1979). ''Arkitekten Martin Nyrop''. København: Foreningen til gamle Bygningers Bevaring.</ref> * [[June 1]] – Sir [[Robert Rowand Anderson]], Scottish Victorian architect (born [[1834 in architecture|1834]]) * [[December 10]] – [[George Ashlin]], Irish ecclesiastical architect (born [[1837 in architecture|1837]]) ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1921 architecture| ]]
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