1906 in architecture
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Overview of the events of 1906 in architecture
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The year 1906 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
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- April 18 – 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys 80% of the city.
- Construction begins on
- New Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough, England, designed by Ninian Comper.
- Benito Juárez Hemicycle in Mexico City, Mexico.[1]
- Waiting room at Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead, and White.
- Palace of Administration, Iași, Moldavia, designed by I. D. Berindei.
- Hampstead Garden Suburb established in north London with Raymond Unwin as architect.
Buildings and structures
[edit ]Buildings opened
[edit ]- January 1 – Mateer Memorial Church, Trivandrum, India.[2]
- May 12 – Palace of the Argentine National Congress, Buenos Aires, designed by Vittorio Meano and completed by Julio Dormal.
Buildings completed
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- Larkin Administration Building for the Larkin Soap Company, Buffalo, New York, and Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Ferry Engineering Works, Queensferry, Wales, designed by Harry Bulkeley Creswell and Hugh P. G. Maule.[3]
- Dunedin railway station in New Zealand, designed by George Troup.
- North Eastern Railway headquarters offices in York and London, designed by Horace Field.
- Gresham Palace (insurance headquarters offices), Budapest, designed by Zsigmond Quittner with József and László Vágó.
- K. C. DeRhodes House, South Bend, Indiana, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Casa Batlló in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
- Palau del Baró de Quadras in Barcelona, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
- Weissenburger House, designed by Lucien Weissenburger for himself at 1, boulevard Charles V in Nancy, France.
- Stollwerckhaus, Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
- National Theatre, Sofia, Bulgaria, designed by Fellner & Helmer.
- City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards.
- Rotunda of National Library of Finland in Helsinki, designed by Gustaf Nyström.
- Sofia Church in Stockholm, designed by Gustaf Hermansson.
Awards
[edit ]- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Patrice Bonnet.
Publications
[edit ]- John Galsworthy's novel The Man of Property, first of The Forsyte Saga , with the background of the building of an English country house for Soames Forsyte by young architect Philip Bosinney.
Births
[edit ]- May 30 – Maxwell M. Kalman, Québécois architect (died 2009)
- June 2 – Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (died 1978)
- July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect (died 2005)[4]
- August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet and architectural writer (died 1984)
- December 30 – Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (died 1997)
Deaths
[edit ]- February 1 – J. P. Seddon, English architect and designer (born 1827)
- May 10 – Charles Baillairgé, French-Canadian architect, land surveyor, civil engineer and author (born 1826)
- June 25 – Stanford White, American architect, partner in McKim, Mead & White (born 1853)
- September 13 – Christian Christie, Norwegian architect (born 1832)
- Charles Worley, English architect
References
[edit ]- ^ Benjamin, Thomas (2010). La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78297-7.
- ^ Mateer Memorial Church, Trivandrum.
- ^ Hubbard, Edward (1986). The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire). ISBN 978-0-300-09627-9.
- ^ Dobnik, Verena (2005年01月26日). "Innovative, influential architect Philip Johnson dies at age 98". The Seattle Times . Archived from the original on 2012年07月13日. Retrieved 2011年10月08日.