title: 1929 in architecture
text: # 1929 in architecture
  
  The year 1929 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September 7 – Ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the new Palace of Nations in Geneva.
  * November 18 – Ceremony to break the ground for the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India, designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester (completed 1943).
  * Plan of White City (Tel Aviv) in Mandatory Palestine by Patrick Geddes agreed.
  * WUWA (Wrocław)
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings opened
  
  * April – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Brooklyn, New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
  * July 11 – Chapel, Stowe School, England, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer (died September 13).
  * July 23 – Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  * August 24 – Baker City Tower hotel, Baker City, Oregon, designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel.
  * October 3 – Dominion Theatre, London, England, designed by W. and T. R. Milburn.
  * December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London headquarters, 55 Broadway, designed by Charles Holden.
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Station reconstructions on Berlin U-Bahn, designed by Alfred Grenander.
  * The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
  * Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario; it becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
  * Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt, Germany.
  * Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, England, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott (July).
  * Lovell House in Los Angeles, designed by Richard Neutra.
  * E-1027 vacation home at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France, designed for themselves by Eileen Gray and her lover Jean Badovici.
  * Imperial Chemical House on Millbank, Westminster, London, designed by Frank Baines.
  * Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
  * Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  * Richfield Tower in Los Angeles, designed by Stiles O. Clements.
  * Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  * Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain, designed by José Espeliú.
  * Melnikov-House, designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
  * Rodmarton Manor in Gloucestershire, England, designed by the Barnsley brothers and Norman Jewson (begun 1909).
  * Functionalist villa by Bohdan Lachert in Warsaw, Poland.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * AIA Gold Medal – Milton Bennett Medary
  * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Victor Laloux
  * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Jean Niermans
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 11 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist
  * February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect
  * April 3 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bengal-born structural engineer (died 1982)
  * May 22 – Neave Brown, American-born British residential architect (died 2018)
  * June 15 – Derek Walker, English architect and urban planner (died 2015)
  * July 13 – Richard Vyškovský, Czech architect and creator of paper models (died 2019)
  * October 11 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 25 – Ralph Knott, English architect (born 1878)
  * February 24 – Lucien Weissenburger, French Art Nouveau architect (born 1860)
  * April 4 – Francis Conroy Sullivan, Canadian architect and pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1882)
  * August 27 – James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury (born 1857)
  * September 13 – Sir Robert Lorimer, Scottish architect and furniture designer (born 1864)
  * October 15 – Émile Bénard, French architect and painter (born 1844)
  * December 10 – Axel Berg, prize-winning Danish architect (born 1856)
  