Overview of the events of 1907 in architecture
The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Stadttheater Düren
January – Plans for St David's Hotel , a hotel for golfers at Harlech , Gwynedd , Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member.[ 1] The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
May 18 – The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley , is laid.
September 29 – The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. , designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
October 6 – Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich .[ 2]
City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted.
District plan for Highland Park, Texas , by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up.
English designer C. R. Ashbee is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina , Sicily.[ 3]
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna , Austria
Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan
April 13 – Old New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street on Manhattan , designed in Art Nouveau style by Robert D. Kohn , opened.
October 8 – Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner .
Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan .
Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool , England, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely .
Tampere Cathedral , Finland, designed by Lars Sonck .
Poti Cathedral in Georgia within the Russian Empire , designed by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the Hennebique system.[ 4]
St Matthew's Church, Paisley in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma) .
Rebuilt Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg , in Alsace-Lorraine , designed by Fritz Beblo .
The Magasins Réunis , a large department store in Nancy , France, by Lucien Weissenburger (after seventeen years of work).
Villa Fruhinsholz in Nancy , France, designed by Léon Cayotte .
Stadttheater Barmen in Wuppertal and Stadttheater Düren , both designed by Carl Moritz in Germany.
North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad at Vassar College , USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
Rebuilt Basel SBB railway station in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.
Awards
Births
Oscar Niemeyer
Deaths
References