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1910 in architecture

The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events
• January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture Ornament and Crime in Vienna. • April 27 – Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco. • Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States. ==Buildings and structures==
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened • January 22 – Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth. • February – Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb. • May 11 – Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey. • June – Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan. • July 31 – Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham. • August 5 – Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Willard T. Sears. • November 27 – Pennsylvania Station (New York City), designed by McKim, Mead and White. Buildings completed • The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier. • The Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier. • Casa Milà in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí. • Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos. • Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos. • Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem. • in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz. • National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. • Liberty Tower (Manhattan) in New York, designed by Henry Ives Cobb. • Giesshübel warehouse in Zürich, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart. • St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich, England, to the 1882 design of George Gilbert Scott Jr. ==Awards==
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold MedalThomas Graham Jackson. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: . ==Births==
Births
• May 23 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died 1999) • June 26 – Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh (died 1950) • July 2 – Richard Sheppard, English architect specializing in educational buildings (died 1982) • August 7 – Lucien Hervé, Hungarian-born architectural photographer (died 2007) • August 12 – Eliot Noyes, American architect and industrial designer (died 1977) • August 20 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died 1961), son of Eliel Saarinen ==Deaths==
Deaths
• March 13 – Sir Thomas Drew, Irish architect (born 1838) • May 14 – Gaetano Koch, Italian architect active in Rome (born 1849) • August 24 – Juste Lisch, French architect (born 1828) ==References==
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