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The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

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, designed by 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.
  • 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.
  • The bombed St John's Church, Waterloo, remodelled by Thomas Ford, is rededicated as the Festival church.
  • The Lansbury Estate in 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 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.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Vincent Harris.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

thumb|upright|[[Santiago Calatrava]]

Births

  • July 28 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer
  • Suad Amiry, Palestinian architect and author
  • Yvonne Farrell, Irish architect

Deaths

  • February 6 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect working in Birmingham (born 1874)
  • July 22 – Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born 1878)
  • Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born 1869)

References