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1916 In Architecture
The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed. * Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed. * Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed. * Holland House (shipping company offices) in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed. * Las Lajas Shrine in Colombia, begun; completed 1949. Events * c. November – The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh. * Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Rowand Anderson. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held. Births * January 23 – Olaf Andrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony Club
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar clubs for men. Today, men are admitted as guests.Blair, Karen J. "Colony Club" in , p.283 History Original clubhouse With other wealthy women, including Anne Tracy Morgan (a daughter of J.P. Morgan), Harriman raised $500,000, and commissioned Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White to build the original clubhouse, later known as the "Old Colony Club". This building – at 120 Madison Avenue, between East 30th and East 31st Streets on the west side of Madison – was built between 1904 and 1908 and was modelled on eighteenth-century houses in Annapolis, Maryland., p.78 The interiors, which exist largely unchanged and have been accorded the landmark status, were created by Elsie de Wolfe – later to become Lady Mendl – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 In Architecture
The year 1940 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Oscar Niemeyer begins to design landmark public buildings around the artificial lake of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. * The last of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, begun in 1916, is published. * Thomas Sharp's Pelican book ''Town Planning'' is published in the United Kingdom. * November 9 – Major fire at Castle Howard in England. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Igreja Nossa Senhora do Brasil in São Paulo, Brazil. * St. Mark's Church, Belgrade, Serbia. * Church of St. Michael, Črna Vas, Slovenia, designed by Jože Plečnik. * Timișoara Orthodox Cathedral, Timișoara, Romania. * Grundtvig's Church, Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (d.1930) in 1913 and completed by his son Kaare Klint. * Church and Priory of Christ the King, Cockfosters, London, designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Architecture
The year 2017 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events *January 19 – The Plasco Building in Tehran (Iran) collapses during a fire. *May – The Fogarty Building, a "mammoth of modern Brutalist architecture" in Providence, Rhode Island built in the 1960s and abandoned since 2003, is demolished to make room for a hotel *June 14 – The Grenfell Tower fire in London forces major reviews of public housing tower block construction in the United Kingdom *November 15– 17 – The annual World Architecture Festival is held in Berlin. Buildings and structures ;Belgium *May 25 – NATO headquarters in Haren, Brussels, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, dedicated ;Brazil *January – The Children's Village at the Canuanã School, Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins, designed by Rosenbaum + Aleph Zero (Gustavo Utrabo and Pedro Duschenes), completed ;China *October – Tianjin Binhai Library, designed by MVRDV, opened *December 2 – Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Manasseh
Leonard Sulla Manasseh (21 May 1916 – 5 March 2017) was a British architect, best known for the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, which he co-designed with Ian Baker. Early life and education Manasseh was born in Eden Hall, Singapore, which was then the house of his uncle Ezekiel Manasseh, a rice and opium merchant, and is now the residence of the British High Commissioner. His father, Alan Manasseh, was a partner in the family firm of S Manasseh and Co, and his mother, Esther, the sister of Joseph Elias, a wealthy Singaporean merchant who provided the financial support to send Leonard and his sister Sylvia to England to be schooled. Leonard went to preparatory school in Surrey and Cheltenham College before becoming a student at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square that he attended from 1935 to 1941. Career After the Second World War, in which Manasseh served as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, he worked as an assistant architect in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Architecture
The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January 9 – Fire destroys Chicago's 1891 Pilgrim Baptist Church, designed by Louis Sullivan. * January 31 – Ground breaks on Waterview Tower, and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago. * March 15 – Cirrus (Helsinki building), Cirrus apartment building topped off in Helsinki, becoming the tallest buildings in Finland, tallest building in Finland (until 2014). * April 10 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated Greenway (landscape), greenway in New York City. * April 27 – Construction work begins on the One World Trade Center, Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center. * July 8 – The government of Abu Dhabi and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. * September 21 – Construction work begins on the Skolkovo Moscow School of Managem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (''née'' Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book '' The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' (1961) argued that " urban renewal" and " slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance – in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through an area of Manhattan that later became known as SoHo, as well as part of Little Italy and Chinatown. She was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on that project. After moving to Toronto in 1968, she joined the opposition to the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of expressways in Toront ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In Architecture
The year 2001 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * February 11 – Three Rivers Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, is demolished. *April – The Grollo Tower in Melbourne, Australia, projected the tallest in the world at this time, is rejected by the local authority. *September 11 – September 11 attacks: World Trade Center in New York City (designed by Minoru Yamasaki) is destroyed, and The Pentagon is heavily damaged by hijacked airliners. In New York, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is completely destroyed; and the Deutsche Bank Building and Fiterman Hall are subsequently demolished due to severe damage. * 6a architects is established by Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson in London. Buildings and structures Buildings opened *January 26 – Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, designed by Toyo Ito. *March 17 – Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, UK, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners. * April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert S
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 In Architecture
The year 1961 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * December - Demolition of the Euston Arch in London begins. * Archigram is founded as an avant-garde architectural group based at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Architectural Association, London, and publishes its manifesto ''Archigram I''. It will work through hypothetical projects and an associated magazine. * Ahrends, Burton and Koralek is formed as an architectural practice in London. * Building Design Partnership is formed in Preston, Lancashire. * St Eusebius' Church, Arnhem, Netherlands, is restored by Berend Tobia Boeyinga. * The first apartment blocks in Hungary of ''Panelház'' (large panel building) construction are erected in Dunaújváros. * Construction of Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (house of the national parliament of Bangladesh) in Dhaka, designed by Louis Kahn, begins. * Double tee beams are first used by Gene Leedy in constructing his own offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Andreas Gulbransson
Olaf Andreas Gulbransson (23 January 1916, in Munich – 18 July 1961) was a German architect of Norwegian descent, particularly active in church architecture. He was the son of the Norwegian-born artist and painter Olaf Gulbransson (1873–1958) and his third wife Grete Jehly (1882–1934) – his mother was half-sister to the writer Norman Douglas. He designed a conference hall for the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. Bibliography * Peter Poscharsky: ''Kirchen von Olaf Andreas Gulbransson.'' München 1966. * Robert Stalla (ed.): ''Olaf Andreas Gulbransson (1916–1961). Kirchenbauten in Bayern.'' Deutscher Kunstverlag The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture, and historic preservation. History Deutscher Kunstverlag was fo ..., München / Berlin 2007, . German people of Norwegian descent Architects from Munich 20th-century German a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom Mintoff (1974)
Dominic Mintoff, ( mt, Duminku Mintoff, ; often called ''il-Perit'', "the Architect"; 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012) was a Maltese Socialist politician, architect, and civil engineer who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was 8th Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984. His tenure as Prime Minister saw the creation of a comprehensive welfare state, nationalisation of large corporations, a substantial increase in the general standard of living and the establishment of the Maltese republic, but was later on marred by a stagnant economy, a rise in authoritarianism and outbreaks of political violence. Early life and education Mintoff was born on 6 August 1916, the third-born and eldest male sibling of nine, born to Lawrence (or Laurence) "Wenzu" Mintoff (who hailed from an old Gozitan family) and his wife, Concetta Farrugia (known in Maltese as Ċetta tax-Xiħ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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