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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 mosaics 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.
  • September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba.
  • 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

Buildings opened

  • January 23 &ndash; Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, China, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated.
  • March 3 &ndash; New terminal at the Central railway station, Sydney, Australia, complete with clock tower.
  • May 2 &ndash; Cunard Building (New York City), designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris with consultants Carrère and Hastings.
  • October 26 &ndash; The Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States.
  • October 28 &ndash; The Theater Pathé Tuschinski movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong.

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Einstein Tower]]

  • The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
  • 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.
  • Monument to the March Dead (Denkmal der Märzgefallenen), by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany.
  • The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
  • Wolseley House (showroom and offices), 160 Piccadilly, London, designed by William Curtis Green.

Designs

  • Adolf Loos designs a mausoleum for Max Dvořák that is never built.

Awards

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Cass Gilbert.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens.

Births

  • January 15 – Ulrich Franzen, German-born American "Brutalist" architect, in Düsseldorf (died 2012)
  • February 26 – Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer, in Milan (died 2012)
  • March 14 – Ada Louise Huxtable, New York architecture critic and writer (died 2013)
  • July 22 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (died 2011)
  • September 6 – Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava, Russian-born Belarusian architect (died 2015)

Deaths

thumb|upright|[[Martin Nyrop]]

  • March 3 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch church and museum architect (born 1827)
  • May 18 – Martin Nyrop, Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born 1849)
  • June 1 – Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish Victorian architect (born 1834)
  • December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1837)

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