1931 in architecture

The year 1931 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• January 23 - Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, first occupied.
• 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]
• The first of the Architects (Registration) Acts is passed in the UK.
• St Olaf House (Hay's Wharf head offices), Tooley Street, London Borough of Southwark, by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel.^[2]
• Commerce Court North is completed in Toronto, Ontario and becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
• The Empire State Building is completed in New York and becomes the tallest building in the world.
• Completion of the House of Atlantis in Böttcherstraße, Bremen.^[3]
• City Hall, Hilversum, North Holland, designed by Willem Marinus Dudok, is completed.
• India Gate in New Delhi is completed.

Sudbury Town Station

• Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius and Uno Åhrén.
• The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois is demolished.
• High and Over, Amersham, one of the first modernist houses in England, designed by Amyas Connell, is completed.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Edwin Cooper.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• May 3 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (died 1997)
• May 7 - Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican architect (died 2011)
• July 17 - Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect
• August 16 - Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer

Deaths

• March 7 - Theo van Doesburg, Dutch polymath, leader of De Stijl (born 1883)
• 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)

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