Overview of the events of 1936 in architecture
The year 1936 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures [ edit ] Buildings [ edit ] Casa del Fascio (Como) , Italy Olympic Stadium (Berlin) Johnson Wax Headquarters , Racine, Wisconsin , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . Campana Factory , Batavia, Illinois , designed by Frank D. Chase and Childs & Smith, built. Owens-Illinois Glass Company building in Toledo, Ohio , built. George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes, Indiana by Frederic Charles Hirons dedicated. Lasipalatsi "temporary" office and commercial building in Helsinki , Finland , designed by Viljo Revell , Heimo Riihimäki and Niilo Kokko, built. Peter Jones (department store) in London , designed by William Crabtree of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed. Casa Bloc (workers' apartments), Barcelona , designed by Josep Lluís Sert , completed. Casa del Fascio (Como) , designed by Giuseppe Terragni , completed. Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas , Lithuania completed. Olympic Stadium (Berlin) , designed by Werner March , opened. Mounts Baths , Northampton , England, designed by James Caldwell Prestwich , built. Tilkka military hospital, Helsinki , Finland, designed by Olavi Sortta, completed.[3] [4] Florin Court (apartments), London, designed by Guy Morgan and Partners . Pullman Court (apartments), London, designed by Frederick Gibberd in 1933, completed. 'Beehive ' terminal at Gatwick Airport , England , designed by Frank Hoar of Hoar, Marlow & Lovett, opened.[5] [6] [7] Airship hangar at Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil opened. Zwickau Hauptbahnhof (railway station), Germany, designed by Otto Falk, opened. Campion Hall, Oxford (college), England, designed by Edwin Lutyens , opened.[8] [9] Church of St Monica, Bootle , England, designed by F. X. Velarde . Kenwood House, Nairobi , Kenya, designed by Ernst May . The Laughing Water roadhouse , Cobham, Kent , England, designed by Clough Williams-Ellis , built. The Maybury roadhouse, Edinburgh, designed by Paterson & Broom, opened. Obelisk of Buenos Aires designed by Alberto Prebisch . Canadian National Vimy Memorial , designed by Walter Seymour Allward , dedicated. 5 Frug Street, White City (Tel Aviv) , Mandatory Palestine , designed by Yehuda Liolka. British General Post Office K6 'Jubilee' red telephone box , designed by Giles Gilbert Scott , introduced.[10] References [ edit ] ^ Wuellner, Margarita J.; Fratinardo, Marlise; Kainer, Amanda (2009). "Final Inventory Report: Survey of Original Fine and Decorative Arts on the Royal Mail Ship Queen Mary" (PDF) . Santa Monica: PCR Services Corporation. Retrieved 2015-04-14 . ^ Allaback, Sarah (2008). The First American Women Architects . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780252033216 . OCLC 167518574 . Retrieved 2018-07-10 – via Google Books . ^ "Puolustusvoimien 1930-luvun arkkitehtuuri Helsingissä" (in Finnish). National Board of Antiquities. 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2014-03-14 . ^ "Tilkassa tapahtuu" (in Finnish). Yle Elävä Arkisto. 2006-10-25. Retrieved 2014-03-14 . ^ "Gatwick's send-off" . Flight . 11 June 1936. pp. 616–19. Retrieved 12 July 2011 . ^ "Modern Airport – Features of Gatwick, London's Latest Terminal: Rational Building Layout: Ground and Air Traffic Control: Ancillary Services" . Flight . 4 June 1936. pp. 602–4. Retrieved 12 July 2011 . ^ King, John. "Gatwick's Beehive: a forgotten development". The Thirties Society Journal . 2 : 25–8. ^ Brown, Jane (1996). Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and his Clients . London: Viking. pp. 223–227. ISBN 0-670-85871-4 . ^ Historic England . "Campion Hall (including chapel) Micklen Hall (including chapel) (1046738)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 March 2012 . ^ Johannessen, Neil (1994). Telephone Boxes . Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-7478-0250-5 . ^ Dennis Hevesi (2010-03-08). "Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73" . The New York Times .