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- Awards
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- References
{{Year nav topic5|1911|architecture}}The year 1911 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events- March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire shows up the need for improved safety standards in New York City buildings.
- April 4 – Foundation stone of Castle Drogo, a country house in Devon, England designed by Edwin Lutyens, laid; it will not be completed until 1930.
- May 23 – The competition to design Canberra, Australia's new capital, is won by American architect Walter Burley Griffin. In the same year, Griffin marries fellow architect Marion Lucy Mahony.
Buildings opened- May 23 – New York Public Library Main Branch, designed by Carrère and Hastings.
- September 12 – Theatro Municipal (São Paulo), designed by Ramos de Azevedo.
- c. September – Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884 inaugurated; it will not be completed until 1925.
Buildings completed- Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel in Nancy, France, designed by Lucien Weissenburger and Alexander Mienville, with ironwork and interiors by Louis Majorelle and stained glass by Jacques Gruber.{{fact|date=May 2014}}
- Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine, designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer.
- Frank Lloyd Wright builds his Taliesin house and studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
- Horwood House in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Detmar Blow, is completed.
- King Edward Building for the General Post Office (United Kingdom) in the City of London, designed by Henry Tanner, an early use of Hennebique reinforced concrete.[1]
- Eagle Insurance Building, Manchester, England, designed by Charles Heathcote.
- New City Hall (Prague), designed by Osvald Polívka.
- Berlin-Pankow station, designed by Karl Cornelius and Ernst Schwartz.
- Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington.
Awards- AIA Gold Medal – George Browne Post.
- Royal Gold Medal – Wilhelm Dorpfeld.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: René Mirland.
Births- March 24 – Jane Drew, English modernist architect and town planner (died 1996)[2]
- July 16 – John Lautner, American architect (died 1994)
- December – Tom Ellis, English architect (died 1988)
- David Roberts, British architect (died 1982)
Deaths- November 15 – Philip Gengembre Hubert, French-born New York architect (born 1830)
- Adolf Eichler, German architect working in Baku (suicide; born 1869)
References1. ^{{cite book|first=Julian|last=Osley|title=Built for Service: Post Office Architecture|location=London|publisher=British Postal Museum & Archive|year=2010|isbn=978-0-9553569-3-3|pages=22–23}} 2. ^{{cite book|author1=Flower, Sile|author2=Macfarlane, Jean |author3=Plant, Ruth|title=Jane B. Drew, architect: A tribute from her colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday 24 March 1986|publisher=Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture|year=1986|isbn=0-9510759-0-X}}
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