Editing 1929 in architecture

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The year '''1929 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
[[file:WuWA 37 od ulicy.jpg|thumb|[[WUWA (Breslau)|Wohnungs- und Werkraumausstellung]], [[Breslau]]]]
*[[September 7]] – Ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the new [[Palace of Nations, Geneva|Palace of Nations]] in Geneva.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/dossiers/adhesion_onu/Suisse_ONU_une_longue_histoire_8230.html?siteSect=21011&sid=1316785&cKey=1031226960000&ty=st |title=Suisse-ONU: une longue histoire… |accessdate=2009-06-18 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120527073511/http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/dossiers/adhesion_onu/Suisse_ONU_une_longue_histoire_8230.html?siteSect=21011&sid=1316785&cKey=1031226960000&ty=st |archivedate=May 27, 2012 |url-status=live |language=fr |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*[[November 18]] – Ceremony to break the ground for the [[Umaid Bhawan Palace]] in [[Jodhpur]], India, designed by [[Henry Vaughan Lanchester]] (completed [[1943 in architecture|1943]]).
*Plan of [[White City (Tel Aviv)]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]] by [[Patrick Geddes]] agreed.
* [[WUWA (Wrocław)]]

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1929}}
===Buildings opened===
*April – [[Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower]], [[Brooklyn]], New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
*[[July 11]] – Chapel, [[Stowe School]], England, designed by Sir [[Robert Lorimer]] (died September 13).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Critchley|first=David J.|title=Heaven on Earth: Sir Robert Lorimer and Stowe School Church 1926–29|journal=Records of Buckinghamshire|volume=59|year=2019|pages=195–247}}</ref>
*[[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===
[[File:Paimio Sanatorium interior.jpg|thumb|[[Paimio Sanatorium]] in Finland]]
[[File:Rotterdam van nelle fabriek.jpg|thumb|[[Van Nelle Factory]], [[Rotterdam]], Holland]]
* Station reconstructions on [[Berlin U-Bahn]], designed by [[Alfred Grenander]].
* The [[Barcelona Pavilion]], designed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]].
* [[Fairmont Royal York|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]] (July).
* [[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, [[City of Westminster|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]] (begun 1909).
* Functionalist villa by Bohdan Lachert in Warsaw, Poland.

==Awards==
*[[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Milton Bennett Medary]]
*[[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Victor Laloux]]
*[[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture – [[:fr:Jean Niermans|Jean Niermans]]

==Births==
[[File:Frank O. Gehry - Parc des Ateliers.jpg|thumb|[[Frank Gehry]]]]
*[[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 (died [[1982 in architecture|1982]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Neave Brown]], American-born British residential architect (died [[2018 in architecture|2018]])<ref>[http://camdennewjournal.com/article/neave-brown-architect-who-transformed-camden-dies-aged-88 ''Neave Brown: architect who transformed Camden dies aged 88.''] Camden New Journal, 19 February 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.dezeen.com/2018/01/10/architect-neave-brown-dies-obituary/ ''Housing pioneer Neave Brown dies aged 88.''] [[Dezeen]], 10 January 2018.</ref>
*[[June 15]] – [[Derek Walker (architect)|Derek Walker]], English architect and urban planner (died [[2015 in architecture|2015]])
*[[July 13]] – [[Richard Vyškovský]], Czech architect and creator of paper models (died [[2019 in architecture|2019]])
*[[October 11]] – [[Raymond Moriyama]], Canadian architect

==Deaths==
[[File:Robert Lorimer, at work.jpg|thumb|[[Robert Lorimer]]]]
*[[January 25]] – [[Ralph Knott]], English architect (born [[1878 in architecture|1878]])
*[[February 24]] – [[Lucien Weissenburger]], French Art Nouveau architect (born [[1860 in architecture|1860]])
*[[April 4]] – [[Francis Conroy Sullivan]], Canadian architect and pupil of [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] (born [[1882 in architecture|1882]])
*[[August 27]] – [[James Knox Taylor]], Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury (born [[1857 in architecture|1857]])<ref>"James Knox Taylor likely to be appointed over New Yorkers", ''The New York Times'',17 October 1897.</ref> 
*[[September 13]] – Sir [[Robert Lorimer]], Scottish architect and furniture designer (born [[1864 in architecture|1864]])
*[[October 15]] – [[Émile Bénard]], French architect and painter (born [[1844 in architecture|1844]])
*[[December 10]] – [[Axel Berg (architect)|Axel Berg]], prize-winning Danish architect (born [[1856 in architecture|1856]])

==References==
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