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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>May – The <a href="/facts/Georgian_Group/Am6lxnRw">Georgian Group</a> is set up as part of the <a href="/facts/Society_for_the_Protection_of_Ancient_Buildings/KUDIrM4P">Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings</a> in England.</li> <li>September 7 – <a href="/facts/Witley_Court/NPWLVYTS">Witley Court</a> in Worcestershire, England, is gutted by fire.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/James_Maude_Richards/5vfvFUyx">J. M. Richards</a> becomes editor of the <i><a href="/facts/Architectural_Review/n5WkyQyM">Architectural Review</a></i> (London), continuing until 1971.</li> <li>Icelandic State Architect <a href="/facts/Gu%25C3%25B0j%25C3%25B3n_Sam%25C3%25BAelsson/3QhkDAk7">Guðjón Samúelsson</a>'s design for the <a href="/facts/Hallgr%25C3%25ADmskirkja/d0HHCrXC">Hallgrímskirkja</a> in <a href="/facts/Reykjav%25C3%25ADk/bKLzL94g">Reykjavík</a> is commissioned; it will be constructed 1945–86.</li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1937</p> <h3>Buildings opened</h3> <ul><li>May 6 – <a href="/facts/Chelsea_Bridge/KKM4N6dS">Chelsea Bridge</a> in <a href="/facts/Pimlico/BXsluEQf">Pimlico</a>, London, designed by <a href="/facts/G._Topham_Forrest/cskSz2TM">G. Topham Forrest</a>, former head of <a href="/facts/London_County_Council/8l1HlEoL">London County Council</a>'s Architect's Department, opened by the <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Canada/XhKW7uSD">Prime Minister of Canada</a>, <a href="/facts/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King/c1Fst1lp">William Lyon Mackenzie King</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>May 27 – The <a href="/facts/Golden_Gate_Bridge/vGk0GVg1">Golden Gate Bridge</a> in San Francisco, <a href="/facts/List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans/Dvu1yTED">longest suspension bridge in the world</a> by the length of central span (1937–1964), designed by <a href="/facts/Joseph_B._Strauss/nkU13St2">Joseph B. Strauss</a>.</li> <li>July 18 – <i><a href="/facts/Haus_der_deutschen_Kunst/xfpPpj6U">Haus der deutschen Kunst</a></i> ("House of German Art") in <a href="/facts/Munich/Pr6zw2ev">Munich</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Paul_Troost/Vb1cLB3J">Paul Troost</a> (died 1934), opened by <a href="/facts/Adolf_Hitler/3zyXG1L8">Adolf Hitler</a> to display <a href="/facts/Art_of_the_Third_Reich/thcw3ldj">art of the Third Reich</a>.</li></ul> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Thousand_Islands_Bridge/F7qKuelv">Thousand Islands Bridge</a> over the <a href="/facts/Saint_Lawrence_River/5DvCUBp4">Saint Lawrence River</a>, linking Canada and the United States.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pet%25C5%2591fi_Bridge/0sLktKSL">Petőfi Bridge</a>, Budapest, Hungary.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Holy_Trinity_Church%2c_Sighi%25C8%2599oara/jHB6S8BK">Holy Trinity Church, Sighișoara</a>, Romania, designed by Dumitru Petrescu Gopeş.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bethlehem_Church%2c_Copenhagen/bMFh7oa5">Bethlehem Church, Copenhagen</a>, Denmark, by <a href="/facts/Kaare_Klint/Nv4zJE5a">Kaare Klint</a> after original designs by his father, <a href="/facts/Peder_Vilhelm_Jensen-Klint/ezg5WpXT">Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint</a> (died 1930).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Church_of_St_Michael_and_All_Angels%2c_Northenden/MFTFFjaG">Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden</a>, Manchester, England, designed by <a href="/facts/Nugent_Cachemaille-Day/ezrNdcVE">Nugent Cachemaille-Day</a>.</li> <li>Church of <a href="/facts/Our_Lady_Star_of_the_Sea_and_St_Winefride%2c_Amlwch/qePnultu">Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch</a>, Wales, designed by <a href="/facts/Giuseppe_Rinvolucri/g2C1VR5R">Giuseppe Rinvolucri</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Senate_House_(University_of_London)/XUq4FhLw">Senate House (University of London)</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Charles_Holden/G8wbALaD">Charles Holden</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dolphin_Square/oumC9Lzf">Dolphin Square</a> in Pimlico, London, designed by Gordon Jeeves.</li> <li>Villa Myrdal, designed by <a href="/facts/Sven_Markelius/kcUn44zH">Sven Markelius</a>.</li> <li>3 Mapu Street, <a href="/facts/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)/t6yr6X3r">White City (Tel Aviv)</a>, <a href="/facts/Mandatory_Palestine/mv0NGUBy">Mandatory Palestine</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Ben-Ami_Shulman/55SVkrA2">Ben-Ami Shulman</a>.</li> <li>St Ann's Court, near <a href="/facts/Chertsey/CJqB1dje">Chertsey</a> in England, a modernist circular house designed by <a href="/facts/Raymond_McGrath/RjbQIUCP">Raymond McGrath</a> for Gerald L. Schlesinger and his partner landscape architect <a href="/facts/Christopher_Tunnard/J3YB8KGz">Christopher Tunnard</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>Houses in Frognal Close, <a href="/facts/Hampstead/3aW7NvaY">Hampstead</a>, London, designed by <a href="/facts/Ernst_L._Freud/37fwUa0u">Ernst L. Freud</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Kensal_House/la2lcPwg">Kensal House</a> in Ladbroke Grove, London, two low-rise blocks of modernist flats for the working class designed by <a href="/facts/Maxwell_Fry/bFKJWTq8">Maxwell Fry</a>.</li> <li>Republic pavilion, <a href="/facts/Barcelona/8PWLdRbW">Barcelona</a>, and <a href="/facts/Second_Spanish_Republic/KruSyR1g">Spanish Republican</a> government pavilion at the <i><a href="/facts/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne/zCaBNbPX">Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne</a></i> in Paris, both designed by <a href="/facts/Josep_Llu%25C3%25ADs_Sert/dAo5Sro0">Josep Lluís Sert</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Club_Moderne/xdWz5Nad">Club Moderne</a>, <a href="/facts/Anaconda%2c_Montana/KshDrCp2">Anaconda, Montana</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Fred_F._Willson/ouoqCwFV">Fred F. Willson</a>, built.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Via_della_Conciliazione/VG3k7vuG">Via della Conciliazione</a> in Rome constructed following demolition of the <a href="/facts/Piazza_Scossacavalli/YvAHE80r">Piazza Scossacavalli</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">RIBA</a> <a href="/facts/Royal_Gold_Medal/xhPS9zJU">Royal Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/Raymond_Unwin/3VeVM1WK">Raymond Unwin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture: Paul Jacques Grillo</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>February 7 – <a href="/facts/Daryl_Jackson/tpXPGWKF">Daryl Jackson</a>, Australian architect</li> <li>April 18 – <a href="/facts/Jan_Kaplick%25C3%25BD/6Y7oW4zF">Jan Kaplický</a>, Czech architect mainly active in UK (died 2009)</li> <li>May 9 – <a href="/facts/Rafael_Moneo/KxbEtVbu">Rafael Moneo</a>, Spanish architect</li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/facts/Renzo_Piano/xnbg4XQn">Renzo Piano</a>, Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect</li> <li>October 3 – <a href="/facts/Richard_England_(architect)/zyxzmMyr">Richard England</a>, Maltese architect</li> <li>October 24 – <a href="/facts/M._Rosaria_Piomelli/oXLKgrgq">M. Rosaria Piomelli</a>, born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>December 7 – <a href="/facts/Ron_Labinski/T87nAK2q">Ron Labinski</a>, American stadium architect (d. 2023)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><i>date unknown</i> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Kate_Macintosh/3ERRbcVy">Kate Macintosh</a>, Scottish-born architect</li> <li><a href="/facts/Georgie_Wolton/T5tDuLBJ">Georgie Wolton</a>, born Cheesman, English architect</li> <li><a href="/facts/Yoshio_Taniguchi/FWbkYQV7">Yoshio Taniguchi</a>, Japanese architect active in New York</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>January 10 – <a href="/facts/Bertie_Crewe/XcSmdK9J">Bertie Crewe</a>, English architect (born 1860)</li> <li>January 28 – <a href="/facts/Anastasios_Metaxas/9gDqbTYc">Anastasios Metaxas</a>, Greek architect and shooting champion (born 1862)</li> <li>February 11 – <a href="/facts/Walter_Burley_Griffin/IFftrKT0">Walter Burley Griffin</a>, US architect and landscape architect, involved in design of <a href="/facts/Canberra/V2PldFRs">Canberra</a> (born 1876)</li> <li>May 9 – <a href="/facts/Harry_Barton_(architect)/rP9gnKC8">Harry Barton</a>, US architect from North Carolina (born 1876)</li> <li>August 27 – <a href="/facts/John_Russell_Pope/hgdwmHqz">John Russell Pope</a>, US architect known for his work in Washington, DC (born 1874)</li> <li>November 23 – <a href="/facts/Edward_Prioleau_Warren/pzRdvcsp">Edward Prioleau Warren</a>, English architect (born 1856)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Stately in Abandonment: Witley Court". Sometimes Interesting. August 7, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2020. <a href="https://sometimes-interesting.com/2014/08/07/stately-in-abandonment-witley-court/#:~:text=Destroyed%20by%20Fire,a%20carpet%20manufacturer%20from%20Kidderminster" target="_blank">https://sometimes-interesting.com/2014/08/07/stately-in-abandonment-witley-court/#:~:text=Destroyed%20by%20Fire,a%20carpet%20manufacturer%20from%20Kidderminster</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Matthews, Peter (2008). London's Bridges. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 978-0-7478-0679-0. OCLC 213309491. Page 77. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"England's Queer History Recognised, Recorded and Celebrated". Historic England. September 23, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2016. <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-queer-history-recognised-recorded-celebrated" target="_blank">https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-queer-history-recognised-recorded-celebrated</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"M. Rosaria Piomelli Architectural Papers, 1960–1995". Spec.Lib.Vt. Archived from the original on April 12, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120412181704/http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawaspec/piomelli.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120412181704/http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawaspec/piomelli.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Sandomir, Richard (February 9, 2023). "Ron Labinski, Who Designed a Cozier Future for Stadiums, Dies at 85". New York Times. Archived from the original on February 12, 2023. Retrieved February 12, 2023. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/sports/ron-labinski-dead.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/sports/ron-labinski-dead.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>