1907 in architecture

• 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. 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. • 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. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings completed in Vienna, Austria 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. • 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==

• AIA Gold Medal – Aston Webb. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Belcher. ==Births==

• June 17 – Charles Eames, American designer (died 1978) • July 7 – Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli architect (died 1986) • August 13 • J. M. Richards, English architectural writer (died 1992) • Basil Spence, Indian-born British architect (died 1976) • August 24 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (died 2012) • December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (died 2012) • Walter Segal, German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died 1985) ==Deaths==

• January 24 – Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish historicist architect (born 1826) • May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830) • June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born 1832) • October 21 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect (born 1827) • November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect (born 1854) ==References==