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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/May_29/aEkfT7p6">May 29</a> – <a href="/facts/Compagnie_G%25C3%25A9n%25C3%25A9rale_Transatlantique/3oQQD8hD">Compagnie Générale Transatlantique</a> <a href="/facts/Ocean_liner/U8tD4ow7">ocean liner</a> <a href="/facts/SS_Normandie/tmELhKd3">SS <i>Normandie</i></a>, with <a href="/facts/Art_D%25C3%25A9co/y1xFeh9t">Art Déco</a> and <a href="/facts/Streamline_Moderne/LIGerbIy">Streamline Moderne</a> interiors designed under the supervision of <a href="/facts/Roger-Henri_Expert/2V5gkx04">Roger-Henri Expert</a>, begins her maiden voyage.</li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935</p> <h3>Buildings opened</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/May_31/GKIS7DQr">May 31</a> - <a href="/facts/Jubilee_Pool/vvTmv43x">Jubilee Pool</a>, <a href="/facts/Penzance/WjUsGCMT">Penzance</a> in Cornwall, England by Frank Latham.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/June_2/zjc1BdRn">June 2</a> – <a href="/facts/Saint_Constantine_and_Elena_Cathedral%2c_B%25C4%2583l%25C8%259Bi/RQGgycxh">Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți</a>, Moldova.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/July_6/nzDAeGrf">July 6</a> – New building for <a href="/facts/Museum_Boijmans_Van_Beuningen/qpWCbG3j">Museum Boijmans</a>, <a href="/facts/Rotterdam/p8LbhGmE">Rotterdam</a>, by <a href="/facts/Ad_van_der_Steur/UwW95N5u">Ad van der Steur</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_13/sGyISgoP">July 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Shoreham_Airport/1VJgKB26">Shoreham Airport</a> terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_22/ELjSgYau">July 22</a> – <a href="/facts/Odeon%2c_Kingstanding/QJbxDqUh">Odeon, Kingstanding</a> cinema in <a href="/facts/Birmingham/lNd1h81V">Birmingham</a>, England, by <a href="/facts/Harry_Weedon/eG6ffIdj">Harry Weedon</a> and <a href="/facts/Cecil_Clavering/94J3QSPH">Cecil Clavering</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/August_3/9AcKoe0e">August 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd%2c_Lake_Tekapo/keFkhyA6">Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo</a>, South Island of New Zealand, by Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman after <a href="/facts/Esther_Hope/7cXUU8rq">Esther Hope</a>, is consecrated.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_5/0HFogU69">August 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Eastbourne_Bandstand/KkknH1KX">Eastbourne Bandstand</a> in <a href="/facts/Eastbourne/xLjYtxNq">Eastbourne</a>, England.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_30/ESdoV1cW">September 30</a> – <a href="/facts/Hoover_Dam/WIPXAeBe">Boulder Dam</a>, by <a href="/facts/John_L._Savage/KrDWsUUY">John L. Savage</a> (design engineer) with <a href="/facts/Gordon_Kaufmann/IqeoBJwj">Gordon Kaufmann</a> (supervising architect), is dedicated.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_4/c1quLHEN">November 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Hornsey_Town_Hall/qHYjcLcr">Hornsey Town Hall</a>, London, by Reginald Uren.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_5/R6zpvmwa">November 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Faringdon/gMxVVP02">Faringdon Folly</a> tower, England, by <a href="/facts/Gerald_Wellesley%2c_7th_Duke_of_Wellington/Lcn6hTmE">Lord Gerald Wellesley</a> for <a href="/facts/Lord_Berners/yoX76bYy">Lord Berners</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_18/ahlTnDHt">November 18</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Freedom_Monument/T2CYqj1L">Freedom Monument</a> in <a href="/facts/Riga/PCWbJn2h">Riga</a>, Latvia, by <a href="/facts/K%25C4%2581rlis_Z%25C4%2581le/bQY8nomu">Kārlis Zāle</a>, is unveiled.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Opelwerk_Brandenburg/4T8MTMcB">Opelwerk Brandenburg</a>, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul></li></ul> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Fallingwater/1eCYbS8Y">Fallingwater</a> in southwestern <a href="/facts/Pennsylvania/HGqC5bBm">Pennsylvania</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Frank_Lloyd_Wright/bdIS237F">Frank Lloyd Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Florya_Atat%25C3%25BCrk_Marine_Mansion/Dj7wqRtc">Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion</a>, Istanbul, designed by <a href="/facts/Seyfi_Arkan/N370dYhA">Seyfi Arkan</a> and gifted to <a href="/facts/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%25C3%25BCrk/RYKRRRst">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Highpoint_I/Nf3T4vbD">Highpoint I</a> apartment block, <a href="/facts/Highgate/BvzrhDb4">Highgate</a>, north London, by <a href="/facts/Berthold_Lubetkin/Sj2BlCYT">Berthold Lubetkin</a> with structural design by <a href="/facts/Ove_Arup/z9exTtxD">Ove Arup</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/De_La_Warr_Pavilion/13TJ0PpC">De La Warr Pavilion</a>, <a href="/facts/Bexhill-on-Sea/RjxI7S25">Bexhill-on-Sea</a>, England, by <a href="/facts/Erich_Mendelsohn/pkpw4pMP">Erich Mendelsohn</a> and <a href="/facts/Serge_Chermayeff/0gz7LPeK">Serge Chermayeff</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/rJHothwW">Supreme Court of the United States</a> by <a href="/facts/Cass_Gilbert/FdSusGPs">Cass Gilbert</a>, completed posthumously</li> <li><a href="/facts/Von_Sternberg_House/nldUz2bp">Von Sternberg House</a>, Northridge, California, by <a href="/facts/Richard_Neutra/HzNNzhpk">Richard Neutra</a></li> <li>Stern House, <a href="/facts/Houghton_Estate/yt5Hb9sN">Houghton Estate</a>, <a href="/facts/Johannesburg/DQd9T8FY">Johannesburg</a>, South Africa, by <a href="/facts/Rex_Distin_Martienssen/wuhqlKHN">Rex Distin Martienssen</a> and partners</li> <li><a href="/facts/Villa_Necchi_Campiglio/7sfe582V">Villa Necchi Campiglio</a>, <a href="/facts/Milan/0xrtbPdt">Milan</a>, by <a href="/facts/Piero_Portaluppi/6enJIvYQ">Piero Portaluppi</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Stockholm/sD74W4Pm">Stockholm</a> Collective House by <a href="/facts/Sven_Markelius/kcUn44zH">Sven Markelius</a> with <a href="/facts/Alva_Myrdal/yf0uLyE2">Alva Myrdal</a></li> <li>Dispensario Antituberculoso, <a href="/facts/Barcelona/8PWLdRbW">Barcelona</a>, by <a href="/facts/Josep_Llu%25C3%25ADs_Sert/dAo5Sro0">Josep Lluís Sert</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/An-Nasr_Mosque/56s5xB6L">An-Nasr Mosque</a>, <a href="/facts/Nablus/MyIyTo8Y">Nablus</a>, Palestine<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Mosque_of_Mopti/zMt2Ijuk">Grand Mosque of Mopti</a>, <a href="/facts/French_Sudan/IlgESQJN">French Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/El_Omrane_Mosque/0bFer0r4">El Omrane Mosque</a>, Tunis<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sacred_Heart_Cathedral%2c_New_Delhi/KVtmILj1">Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi</a>, India, designed by <a href="/facts/Henry_Medd/cnhmfYSb">Henry Medd</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>Church of Our Lady and the First Martyrs, <a href="/facts/Heaton%2c_West_Yorkshire/SFENjwUE">Heaton, West Yorkshire</a>, England, designed by J. H. Langtry-Langton</li> <li><a href="/facts/Gothenburg_Concert_Hall/PoAsVnW0">Gothenburg Concert Hall</a>, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson</li> <li><a href="/facts/Vyborg_Library/aoTU5u3J">Vyborg Library</a>, Finland, designed by <a href="/facts/Alvar_Aalto/vhHeMTTz">Alvar Aalto</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gemeentemuseum_Den_Haag/gfsEaHVF">Gemeentemuseum Den Haag</a>, Netherlands, designed by <a href="/facts/Hendrik_Petrus_Berlage/dcacoSjs">Hendrik Petrus Berlage</a></li></ul> <h2 id="exhibitions">Exhibitions</h2> <ul><li>Opened to the public <a href="/facts/April_19/7VAgzapI">April 19</a> - Industrial arts exposition at the Forum at <a href="/facts/Rockefeller_Center/pLSH8Mld">Rockefeller Center</a> in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a>; where models and plans for <a href="/facts/Frank_Lloyd_Wright/bdIS237F">Frank Lloyd Wright</a>'s proposed <a href="/facts/Broadacre_City/6DuphBYl">Broadacre City</a> were displayed for the first time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></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/Willem_Marinus_Dudok/HYMahNd4">Willem Marinus Dudok</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture – Paul Domenc.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_3/vluyLoq4">March 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Corinne_Bennett/IBqkXmBP">Corinne Bennett</a>, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died <a href="/facts/2010_in_architecture/FCJUHjKt">2010</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_7/Nq3amdo7">May 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Michael_Hopkins_(architect)/AMFueYyE">Michael Hopkins</a>, English architect (died <a href="/facts/2023_in_architecture/BIJGpaCK">2023</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_1/lazqCtU0">June 1</a> – <a href="/facts/Norman_Foster%2c_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank/G3StsbXt">Norman Foster</a>, English architect, head of international design practice <a href="/facts/Foster_and_Partners/MmrXRynn">Foster and Partners</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/November_20/IuYqbRIa">November 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Imre_Makovecz/wM6hHpIG">Imre Makovecz</a>, Hungarian architect (died <a href="/facts/2011_in_architecture/xvduqVo8">2011</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/October_27/SD6UTgwY">October 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Giorgio_Grassi/nPoXEska">Giorgio Grassi</a>, Italian architect</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_31/unFJnkkY">October 31</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Melvin_(architect)/0FVp5aL7">John Melvin</a>, English architect</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_27/2MucWS7r">March 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Francis_Rattenbury/9zfSe41c">Francis Rattenbury</a>, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born <a href="/facts/1867_in_architecture/Y5j6tPgf">1867</a>; murdered)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_5/M78bdVSy">April 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Basil_Champneys/Fllg8wkw">Basil Champneys</a>, English architect and author (born <a href="/facts/1842_in_architecture/yUvh8tfj">1842</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_6/nzDAeGrf">July 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Claude_Ferrier/RmkV0FeM">Claude Ferrier</a>, British Art Deco architect (born <a href="/facts/1879_in_architecture/xGXjRlYf">1879</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_7/k6IWlEDM">July 7</a> – <a href="/facts/George_Keller_(architect)/4A9rJSgy">George W. Keller</a>, American architect and engineer (born 1842)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_2/3vvRGBSn">September 2</a> – <a href="/facts/Henry_Tanner_(architect)/dC6z5u7s">Sir Henry Tanner</a>, English public building architect (born <a href="/facts/1849_in_architecture/5HHhJodM">1849</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Captain Latham, His Monument". Penwith Local History Group. Retrieved 6 December 2021. <a href="https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=137" target="_blank">https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=137</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"2 june 1935". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. 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