- 1921 in architecture
The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
* The
Einstein Tower nearPotsdam ,Germany , designed byErich Mendelsohn is completed.
* Berliner Tageblatt designed byErich Mendelsohn is opened.
*Simon Rodia begin constructing theWatts Towers in Los Angeles.
* The current Central Railway Station inSydney ,Australia is completed.
*Harkness Tower inYale University inNew Haven, Connecticut ,United States is completed after 4 years of construction.
* TheCorn Palace inMitchell, South Dakota ,United States is completed however the domes were added in1937 .
* TheWong Tai Sin Temple inHong Kong ,China is moved to its current site and completed.
*Michel de Klerk 's Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amesterdam is completed.
*Monument to the March Dead is completed byWalter Gropius inWeimar .
* TheMayslake Peabody Estate is finished inOak Brook, Illinois .Events
*
Hugo Häring andLudwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass.Awards
*
Royal Gold Medal -Edwin Lutyens .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
Deaths
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March 3 -Pierre Cuypers (born 1827)
*June 1 -Robert Rowand Anderson (born 1834)
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