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{{Year nav topic5|1931|architecture}}The year 1931 in architecture involved some significant events. Events- December 5 – The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883) is dynamited.
- The first of the Architects (Registration) Acts is passed in the United Kingdom.
- The first of the historic districts in the United States is designated in Charleston, South Carolina, by the city government.
Buildings- January 23 – Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, first occupied.
- May 1 – The Empire State Building is completed in New York City as the tallest building in the world.
- July 1 – The rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station opens in Italy.
- July 19 – Sudbury Town station on the London Underground Piccadilly line opens as rebuilt by Charles Holden, the first of his iconic modern designs for the network.[1]
- Villa Savoye in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, using reinforced concrete and demonstrating Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture, is completed.[2][3]
- Commerce Court North is completed in Toronto, Ontario and becomes the tallest building in the British Empire (1931–1962).
- George Washington Bridge the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1931–1937), is completed.
- Royal Corinthian Yacht Club clubhouse, Burnham-on-Crouch, eastern England, designed by Joseph Emberton, is opened.[4]
- St Olaf House (Hay's Wharf head offices), Tooley Street, London Borough of Southwark, designed by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel.[5]
- Raleigh Bicycle Company head offices in Nottingham, England, designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt, completed.[6]
- Aiton & Co. factory office, Derby, England, designed by Norah Aiton and Betty Scott, completed.[7]
- India Tyres offices at Inchinnan, Scotland, designed by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners, completed and opened.
- Atlantis House and Robinson Crusoe House in Böttcherstraße, Bremen, designed by Bernhard Hoetger, complete the street's construction in the style of Brick Expressionism.[8]
- City Hall, Hilversum, North Holland, designed by Willem Marinus Dudok, is completed.
- India Gate in New Delhi is completed.
- Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius and Uno Åhrén.
- Washington Singer Building on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter in England, designed by Vincent Harris.
- New Synagogue, Žilina, Czechoslovakia, designed by Peter Behrens, is completed.
- High and Over, Amersham, one of the first modernist houses in England, designed by Amyas Connell, is completed.
- House for two brothers in Brno, designed by Otto Eisler, is completed.
- Apartment Building at 342, Muntaner Street, Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is completed.
- The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois is demolished.
Awards- Royal Gold Medal – Edwin Cooper.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Georges Dengler.
Births- April 23 – Roland Paoletti, British architect (died 2013)
- May 3 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (died 1997)
- May 7 – Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican architect (died 2011)
- July 17 – Edward Cullinan, English architect
- July 23 – Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect
- August 16 – Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer
- October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, Rhodesian-born American architect
Deaths- March 7 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch polymath, leader of De Stijl (born 1883)
- July 17 – William Lethaby, English Arts and Crafts architect and designer (born 1857)
- September 1 – Nahum Barnet, Melbourne-based Australian architect (born 1855)
- September 20 – Max Littmann, German architect (born 1862)
- December 3 – Frederick Walters, Scottish architect of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches (born 1849)
References1. ^{{cite book|first=David|last=Lawrence|title=Bright Underground spaces: the London Tube station architecture of Charles Holden|location=Harrow Weald|publisher=Capital Transport|year=2008|isbn=978-1-85414-320-4}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://tourisme.monuments-nationaux.fr/en/monuments/bdd/monument/48|title=Villa Savoye à Poissy|publisher=Centre des monuments nationaux|accessdate=2013-03-21}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Courland|first=Robert|title=Concrete Planet|publisher=Prometheus Books|location=Amherst, NY|year=2012|page=326}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Joseph Emberton, Architect|url=http://www.joseph-emberton.co.uk/|year=2004|accessdate=2015-04-04}}
5. ^{{IoE|471397|St Olaf House (Grade II*)|accessdate=12 October 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/nottingham-bike-hq-is-englands-400000th-listed-building/5095200.article|first=Elizabeth|last=Hopkirk|title=Nottingham bike HQ is England's 400,000th listed building|work=bd|date=2018-08-22|accessdate=2018-08-22}}
7. ^{{cite journal|title=The Forgotten Architecture of Vision: Aiton & Scott's Factory Office for Aiton & Co., Derby, 1930-1|first=Lynne|last=Walker|journal=Twentieth Century Architecture|issue=1|year=1994|pages=23–30|publisher=Twentieth Century Society|jstor=41859417}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=Sky Hall|work=Guidebook Bremen|url=http://www.belocal.net/bremen/sights/sky_hall/seite_1,6,2,1484.html|accessdate=2011-08-03}}
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