1951 in architecture
# 1951 in architecture

The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* January 2 – Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed by William J. Bain of NBBJ, opened.
* February 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
* February 28 – Bronx River Houses completed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in New York City.
* May 3 – Festival of Britain opened in London:
   * Royal Festival Hall, designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
   * Dome of Discovery, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
   * Skylon, designed by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely.
   * Telecinema, designed by Wells Coates.
   * Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.
   * The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by H. T. Cadbury-Brown.
   * Fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi.
   * '51 Bar by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker.
   * The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase.
* May 23 – Terrace Theatre (Minnesota), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
* 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
* Healy Guest House, Siesta Key, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell is completed.
* The JK Building completed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
* Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

## Events

* The antenna of the Empire State Building in New York City is added to the building.
* Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in his Buildings of England series for Penguin Books, the volume on Nottinghamshire.
* Norman Jewson publishes his autobiographical By Chance I did Rove.

## Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Bernard Ralph Maybeck.
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Vincent Harris.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

## Births

* July 28 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer
* Yvonne Farrell, Irish architect

## Deaths

* February 6 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect working in Birmingham (born 1874)
* July 22 – Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born 1878)
* Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born 1869)
