1941 in architecture

The year 1941 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1941

Buildings

Australian War Memorial

Biblioteca Cantonale in Lugano, Switzerland

• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: no competition.

Births

Tadao Ando

• March 3 – Vlado Milunić, Czech architect (died 2022)
• April 1 – David Childs, American architect
• May 6 – Peter Corrigan, Australian architect (died 2016)^[3]
• 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)