Editing 1951 in architecture

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The year '''1951 in architecture''' involved some significant events.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1951}}
===Buildings===
[[File:Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road (1).jpg|thumb|[[Royal Festival Hall]] in [[London]], England]]
* January 2 – [[Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle)]], designed by [[William J. Bain]] of [[NBBJ]], opened.
* February 19 – [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis)]], designed by [[Liebenberg and Kaplan]], opens.
* February 28 – [[Bronx River Houses]] completed in the [[Soundview]] section of [[The Bronx]] in New York City.
* May 3 – [[Festival of Britain]] opened in [[London]]:
** [[Royal Festival Hall]], designed by [[Leslie Martin]], [[Peter Moro]] and [[Robert Matthew]].
** [[Dome of Discovery]], designed by [[Ralph Tubbs]].
** [[Skylon (tower)|Skylon]], designed by [[Philip Powell (architect)|Philip Powell]], [[Hidalgo Moya]] and [[Felix Samuely]].
** [[Telecinema]], designed by [[Wells Coates]].
** Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by [[Jane Drew]] with [[Maxwell Fry]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Banham, Mary|editor2=Hillier, Bevis|title=A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1976|page=103|first=Jane|last=Drew|chapter=The Riverside Restaurant}}</ref>
** The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by [[H. T. Cadbury-Brown]].
** Fountain by [[Eduardo Paolozzi]].
** '51 Bar by [[Leonard Manasseh]] and [[Ian Baker (architect)|Ian Baker]].
** The bombed [[St John's Church, Waterloo]], remodelled by [[Thomas Ford (architect)|Thomas Ford]], is rededicated as the Festival church.
** The [[Lansbury Estate]] in [[Poplar, London|Poplar]] is begun as a housing showcase – including Trinity Congregational Church, designed by Cecil Handyside and Douglas Stark.
* May 23 – [[Terrace Theatre (Minnesota)]], designed by [[Liebenberg and Kaplan]], opens.
* [[860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments]] are completed in [[Chicago]], by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]].
* [[Healy Guest House]], [[Siesta Key, Florida]], designed by [[Paul Rudolph (architect)|Paul Rudolph]] and [[Ralph Twitchell]] is completed.
* The [[JK Building]] completed in [[Belo Horizonte, Brazil]] as designed by [[Oscar Niemeyer]].
* [[Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois)]] is completed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]].

==Events==
* The antenna of the [[Empire State Building]] in New York City is added to the building.
* [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] publishes the first in his ''[[Buildings of England]]'' series for [[Penguin Books]], the volume on [[Nottinghamshire]].
* [[Norman Jewson]] publishes his autobiographical ''By Chance I did Rove''.

==Awards==
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Bernard Ralph Maybeck]].
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Vincent Harris]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture – [[:fr:Louis de Hoÿm de Marien|Louis de Hoÿm de Marien]].
[[File:Santiago Calatrava (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Santiago Calatrava]]]]

==Births==
* July 28 – [[Santiago Calatrava]], Spanish architect and structural engineer
* [[Yvonne Farrell]], Irish architect

==Deaths==
* February 6 – [[William Alexander Harvey]], English architect working in [[Birmingham]] (born [[1874 in architecture|1874]])
* July 22 – [[Arthur Joseph Davis]], English architect (born [[1878 in architecture|1878]])
* [[Herbert Tudor Buckland]], British architect working in Birmingham (born [[1869 in architecture|1869]])

==References==
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