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词条 1951 in architecture
释义

  1. Buildings

  2. Events

  3. Awards

  4. Births

  5. Deaths

  6. References

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The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

  • 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.[1]
    • 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 Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase.
  • 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.
  • 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 Gold Medal – Vincent Harris.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

Births

  • July 28 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer

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

1. ^{{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}}

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