1910 in architecture

The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

• January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture Ornament and Crime in Vienna.
• April 27 – Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco.
• Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States.

Buildings and structures

Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain

Steiner House

Buildings opened

• January 22 – Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth.
• February – Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb.^[1]
• May 11 – Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey.
• June – Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• July 31 – Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham.
• August 5 – Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Willard T. Sears.^[2]
• November 27 – Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead and White.

Buildings completed

• The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier.
• The Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier.
• Casa Milà in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
• Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
• Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
• Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem.
• Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
• National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.^[3]
• Liberty Tower (Manhattan) in New York, designed by Henry Ives Cobb.
• Giesshübel warehouse in Zürich, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.
• Catholic church of St John the Baptist, Norwich, England, to the 1882 design of George Gilbert Scott Jr.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Graham Jackson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Fernand Janin.

Births

• May 23 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died 1999)
• June 26 – Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh (died 1950)
• July 2 – Richard Sheppard, English architect specializing in educational buildings (died 1982)
• August 7 – Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born architectural photographer (died 2007)
• August 12 – Eliot Noyes, American architect and industrial designer (died 1977)
• August 20 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died 1961), son of Eliel Saarinen

Deaths

Thomas Drew

• March 13 – Sir Thomas Drew, Irish architect (born 1838)
• May 14 – Gaetano Koch, Italian architect active in Rome (born 1849)
• August 24 – Juste Lisch, French architect (born 1828)