title: 1941 in architecture
text: # 1941 in architecture
  
  The year 1941 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Hoover Tower in Stanford, California, United States, designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., completed.
  * Fen Court at Peterhouse, Cambridge, England, designed by H. C. Hughes and Peter Bicknell, completed.
  * Dublin Airport passenger terminal, Ireland, designed by Desmond FitzGerald, opened.
  * Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, completed.
  * Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, completed.
  * Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, completed.
  * Replica of the Parthenon, in concrete, in Nashville, Tennessee, completed.
  * Presidential Palace of Tirana, in Tirana, Albania, completed.
  * Karlskoga city hall in Sweden designed by Sune Lindström.
  * National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana, designed by Jože Plečnik in 1930/31, completed.
  * Biblioteca Cantonale (Cantonal Library) in Lugano, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, designed by Rino and Carlo Tami, completed.
  * St Peter's Church, Grange Park, Enfield, London, designed by Cyril Farey, built using recycled materials.
  * Willow Run Bomber Plant, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn.
  * Schwerbelastungskörper, Berlin, Germany, built by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG.
  * Kahn House in Ngaio, New Zealand, designed by Ernst Plischke, completed.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright.
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: no competition.
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 3 – Vlado Milunić, Czech architect (died 2022)
  * April 1 – David Childs, American architect
  * May 6 – Peter Corrigan, Australian architect (died 2016)
  * June 1 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect
  * September 13 – Tadao Ando, Japanese "critical regionalist" architect
  * approximate date – Yasmeen Lari, Pakistani architect
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 12 – Charles Voysey, English Arts and Crafts designer and domestic architect (born 1857)
  * August 26 – Sir Alfred Gelder, English architect and politician active in Kingston upon Hull (born 1855)
  * September 2 – H. Craig Severance, American architect active in New York (born 1879)
  * December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect (born 1890)
  