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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Alas_Building/ClhCDVMc">Alas Building</a>, <a href="/facts/Buenos_Aires/9lUVmS7f">Buenos Aires</a>, <a href="/facts/Argentina/aFSA5bAk">Argentina</a>, is commissioned by President <a href="/facts/Juan_Per%25C3%25B3n/KQQm2xGI">Juan Perón</a> for the Association of Unionized Latin American Workers (ATLAS, S.A.). It would be the tallest building in Buenos Aires from its completion until 1996, when it was surpassed by the <a href="/facts/Le_Parc_tower/rJaa3goE">Le Parc tower</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Frank_Lloyd_Wright/bdIS237F">Frank Lloyd Wright</a> completes construction of several <a href="/facts/Usonian/0k3mtEFg">Usonian</a> style houses across the United States, including <ul><li><a href="/facts/John_D._Haynes_House/8odnvWEv">John D. Haynes House</a> in <a href="/facts/Fort_Wayne%2c_Indiana/7SphYnWd">Fort Wayne, Indiana</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Fountainhead_(Jackson%2c_Mississippi)/o87cV90k">Fountainhead</a> (J. Willis Hughes House) in <a href="/facts/Jackson%2c_Mississippi/mlWqJqUI">Jackson, Mississippi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Thomas_Keys_Residence/CeFTj28C">Thomas Keys Residence</a> in <a href="/facts/Rochester%2c_Minnesota/7aBXL0ap">Rochester, Minnesota</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Richard_C._Smith_House/cqSNwDAe">Richard C. Smith House</a> in <a href="/facts/Jefferson%2c_Wisconsin/PEBvJkI6">Jefferson, Wisconsin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/J.A._Sweeton_Residence/wM686X7D">J.A. Sweeton Residence</a> in <a href="/facts/Cherry_Hill%2c_New_Jersey/dhXMgRvx">Cherry Hill, New Jersey</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Larkin_Administration_Building/QKhBU7mY">Larkin Administration Building</a> in <a href="/facts/Buffalo%2c_New_York/PVfdkYft">Buffalo, New York</a>, United States, designed by <a href="/facts/Frank_Lloyd_Wright/bdIS237F">Frank Lloyd Wright</a> in 1904, is demolished, despite widespread protests.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>The original golden <a href="/facts/Kinkaku-ji/1bEwg1yE">Kinkaku-ji</a> temple in <a href="/facts/Kyoto/gUWtvjfd">Kyoto</a>, Japan, originating in the 14th century, is destroyed by <a href="/facts/Arson/tzNIWYgd">arson</a> (July 2).</li> <li><a href="/facts/The_Salutation%2c_Sandwich/FMaxbKwx">The Salutation, Sandwich</a>, Kent, England, designed by <a href="/facts/Edwin_Lutyens/uByyBKRS">Edwin Lutyens</a> and built 1911–12, becomes a Grade I <a href="/facts/Listed_building/PPx6CnfU">listed building</a> in the United Kingdom.</li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1950</p> <h3>Buildings opened</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/June_16/WtGcu88a">June 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Est%25C3%25A1dio_do_Maracan%25C3%25A3/jaoQnN9h">Estádio do Maracanã</a>, <a href="/facts/Rio_de_Janeiro/AVPTJJ2C">Rio de Janeiro</a>, Brazil, built to accommodate the 1950 <a href="/facts/FIFA_World_Cup/pGI0SF7r">FIFA World Cup</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_7/mYeHmRT9">November 7</a> – <a href="/facts/%25C3%2581rp%25C3%25A1d_Bridge/HAfEL1ed">Árpád Bridge</a>, Budapest, Hungary, designed in 1939 by János Kossalka and opened as <i>Sztálin híd</i>.</li> <li><i>date unknown</i> – <a href="/facts/Hyart_Theater/RKAvIJKv">Hyart Theater</a>, built in <a href="/facts/Lovell%2c_Wyoming/6rQhj6JY">Lovell, Wyoming</a>, by Hyrum "Hy" Bischoff.</li></ul> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Alsancak_Hocazade_Mosque/6DLs6B0r">Alsancak Hocazade Mosque</a> (Alsancak Hocazade Camii), İzmir, Turkey.</li> <li><a href="/facts/The_Barn_(Los_Angeles)/rdpaTTpL">The Barn (Los Angeles)</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/A._Quincy_Jones/3MUU5Tqb">A. Quincy Jones</a> as a home and office for himself.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Rockefeller_Guest_House/FehlbzJc">Rockefeller Guest House</a> in <a href="/facts/Manhattan/fF9JeXjh">Manhattan</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Philip_Johnson/zW682weu">Philip Johnson</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Rose_Seidler_House/o7L0kRv2">Rose Seidler House</a>, <a href="/facts/Sydney/8TegRcwB">Sydney</a>, Australia, designed by <a href="/facts/Harry_Seidler/P3QnTHpr">Harry Seidler</a> for his mother.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bla%25C5%25BEo_Jovanovi%25C4%2587_Bridge/twsS6vMg">Blažo Jovanović Bridge</a>, <a href="/facts/Podgorica/8Jze0WJz">Podgorica</a>, <a href="/facts/Montenegro/QynKJrw5">Montenegro</a>, designed by Branko Žeželj.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Eames_House/KPTntLL5">Eames House</a> (pictured) in <a href="/facts/Santa_Monica%2c_California/A0Cyj3vy">Santa Monica, California</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Charles_Eames/f4SYxDK1">Charles</a> and <a href="/facts/Ray_Eames/aEL2EDa0">Ray Eames</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mutual_of_New_York_Building/83qrTk6g">Mutual of New York Building</a>, <a href="/facts/Times_Square/MB9V2j7y">Times Square</a>, New York City, USA, designed by <a href="/facts/Shreve%2c_Lamb_and_Harmon/YXzpPU9C">Shreve, Lamb and Harmon</a> (who also designed the <a href="/facts/Empire_State_Building/GgehSMmV">Empire State Building</a>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Neutra_Office_Building/Td1eNwvl">Neutra Office Building</a> completed in <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles%2c_California/pyXpYEX9">Los Angeles, California</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Modern_architecture/T3F1gFrv">modernist</a> architect <a href="/facts/Richard_Neutra/HzNNzhpk">Richard Neutra</a> and used as his office until his death in 1970.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pointe_des_Corbeaux_Lighthouse/22YxwYd7">Pointe des Corbeaux Lighthouse</a>, <a href="/facts/%25C3%258Ele_d%2527Yeu/yql8C3q4">Île d'Yeu</a>, France, replacing the original building destroyed in 1944.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/St._George%2527s_Anglican_Church%2c_Berlin/pns7khqt">St. George's Anglican Church, Berlin</a>: the new building is established in the Neu-Westend neighbourhood in the British Sector as the garrison church of the British forces.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>Romney Avenue Infant School in <a href="/facts/Lockleaze/mN5gG387">Lockleaze</a>, <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a>, England, designed by <a href="/facts/Richard_Sheppard_(architect)/PmFGE2d9">Richard Sheppard</a> to utilize aluminium components made by the <a href="/facts/Bristol_Aeroplane_Company/3WKIytuE">Bristol Aeroplane Company</a>.</li> <li>First stages of <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Headquarters/4pof9vnU">United Nations Headquarters</a> completed by <a href="/facts/Wallace_Harrison/zIk6atz9">Wallace Harrison</a> (director of planning) in <a href="/facts/Manhattan/fF9JeXjh">Manhattan</a>. The <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Secretariat_Building/z0e57Tk9">Secretariat Building</a> (by <a href="/facts/Le_Corbusier/uVvg2nGU">Le Corbusier</a> and <a href="/facts/Oscar_Niemeyer/UbSYBGEC">Niemeyer</a>) is completed two years later.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/AIA_Gold_Medal/WBHeDAGH">AIA Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/Patrick_Abercrombie/b8eXlEdo">Patrick Abercrombie</a>.</li> <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/Eliel_Saarinen/0Rp6zVnR">Eliel Saarinen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture – Jacques Perrin-Fayolle.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>March 29 – <a href="/facts/Richard_Feilden/Gpyhhj5w">Richard Feilden</a>, English architect (died <a href="/facts/2005_in_architecture/LMPcs9ES">2005</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Herzog_%2526_de_Meuron/s9U5Dz06">Herzog & de Meuron</a>, Swiss architects: <ul><li>April 19 – <a href="/facts/Jacques_Herzog/s9U5Dz06">Jacques Herzog</a></li> <li>May 8 – <a href="/facts/Pierre_de_Meuron/s9U5Dz06">Pierre de Meuron</a></li></ul></li> <li>October 31 – <a href="/facts/Zaha_Hadid/lj0JoRsQ">Zaha Hadid</a>, Iraqi-born British architect (died <a href="/facts/2016_in_architecture/MUzVD0Xf">2016</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Hafeez_Contractor/05A2KKvf">Hafeez Contractor</a>, Indian architect</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>July 1 – <a href="/facts/Eliel_Saarinen/0Rp6zVnR">Eliel Saarinen</a>, Finnish architect (born <a href="/facts/1873_in_architecture/qnAlkHJW">1873</a>)</li> <li>July 8 – <a href="/facts/William_Weir_(architect)/BG0mzzj8">William Weir</a>, British conservation architect (born <a href="/facts/1865_in_architecture/yvca85mH">1865</a>)</li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/facts/Maciej_Nowicki_(architect)/GhPEtu9C">Maciej Nowicki</a>, Polish architect (born <a href="/facts/1910_in_architecture/paf15txD">1910</a>) (in <a href="/facts/TWA_Flight_903/6f3NGyVw">TWA Flight 903</a> disaster)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Goldman, Mark. City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900–Present. Prometheus Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-61592-067-9. <a href="978-1-61592-067-9" target="_blank">978-1-61592-067-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Podgorica – grad sa 106 mostova, od 2000. godine izgrađeno devet, planiraju još tri – Pobjeda Dnevni List". Pobjeda.me. 2012-02-13. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073105/http://www.pobjeda.me/2012/02/05/podgorica-%E2%80%93-grad-sa-106-mostova-od-2000-godine-izgradeno-devet-planiraju-jos-tri/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073105/http://www.pobjeda.me/2012/02/05/podgorica-%E2%80%93-grad-sa-106-mostova-od-2000-godine-izgradeno-devet-planiraju-jos-tri/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of France: Loire-Atlantique". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"About us" Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, on: St George's Anglican Episcopal Church, Berlin, retrieved on 14 May 2012. <a href="http://www.stgeorges.de/aboutus.html" target="_blank">http://www.stgeorges.de/aboutus.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>