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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] |
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