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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• May 29 – Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie, with Art Déco and Streamline Moderne interiors designed under the supervision of Roger-Henri Expert, begins her maiden voyage.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• May 31 - Jubilee Pool, Penzance in Cornwall, England by Frank Latham.
• June 2 – Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.
• July 6 – New building for Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, by Ad van der Steur.
• July 13 – Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
• July 22 – Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.
• August 3 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, South Island of New Zealand, by Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman after Esther Hope, is consecrated.
• August 5 – Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
• September 30 – Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
• November 4 – Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren.
• November 5 – Faringdon Folly tower, England, by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners.
• November 18
  • Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by Kārlis Zāle, is unveiled.
  • Opelwerk Brandenburg, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.

Buildings completed

• Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion, Istanbul, designed by Seyfi Arkan and gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• Highpoint I apartment block, Highgate, north London, by Berthold Lubetkin with structural design by Ove Arup
• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff
• Supreme Court of the United States by Cass Gilbert, completed posthumously
• Von Sternberg House, Northridge, California, by Richard Neutra
• Stern House, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa, by Rex Distin Martienssen and partners
• Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, by Piero Portaluppi
• Stockholm Collective House by Sven Markelius with Alva Myrdal
• Dispensario Antituberculoso, Barcelona, by Josep Lluís Sert
• An-Nasr Mosque, Nablus, Palestine
• Grand Mosque of Mopti, French Sudan
• El Omrane Mosque, Tunis
• Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India, designed by Henry Medd
• Church of Our Lady and the First Martyrs, Heaton, West Yorkshire, England, designed by J. H. Langtry-Langton
• Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson
• Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Exhibitions

• Opened to the public April 19 - Industrial arts exposition at the Forum at Rockefeller Center in New York City; where models and plans for Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed Broadacre City were displayed for the first time.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Willem Marinus Dudok.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Paul Domenc.

Births

• March 3 – Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
• May 7 – Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)
• June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners
• November 20 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)
• October 27 – Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
• October 31 – John Melvin, English architect

Deaths

• March 27 – Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
• April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
• July 6 – Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
• July 7 – George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)
• September 2 – Sir Henry Tanner, English public building architect (born 1849)

References

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