1921 in architecture

• March – Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth. • March 21 – Teatro Yagüez in Puerto Rico, designed by José Sabàs Honoré, reopens. • May 27 – A Buddha image is enshrined in the main hall of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission in Hawai'i, as part of a dedication ceremony for the building. • September 5 – The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba. • Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass. • Construction work begins on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, designed by Simon Rodia. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • January 23 – Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, China, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated. • March 3 – New terminal at the Central railway station, Sydney, Australia, complete with clock tower. • May 2 – Cunard Building (New York City), designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris with consultants Carrère and Hastings. • October 26 – The Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States. • October 28 – The Theater Pathé Tuschinski movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong. Buildings completed • The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn. • Berliner Tageblatt, designed by Erich Mendelsohn. • Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, after 4 years of construction. • The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed (except for domes added in 1937). • The Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong) is moved to its current site and completed. • New Hindu Durgiana Temple in Amritsar. • Michel de Klerk's Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amsterdam. • Monument to the March Dead (Denkmal der Märzgefallenen), by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. • The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. • Wolseley House (showroom and offices), 160 Piccadilly, London, designed by William Curtis Green. ==Designs==

• Adolf Loos designs a mausoleum for Max Dvořák that is never built. ==Awards==

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Cass Gilbert. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens. ==Births==

• January 15 – Ulrich Franzen, German-born American "Brutalist" architect, in Düsseldorf (died 2012) • February 26 – Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer, in Milan (died 2012) • March 14 – Ada Louise Huxtable, New York architecture critic and writer (died 2013) • July 22 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (died 2011) • September 6 – Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava, Russian-born Belarusian architect (died 2015) ==Deaths==

• March 3 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch church and museum architect (born 1827) • May 18 – Martin Nyrop, Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born 1849) • June 1 – Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish Victorian architect (born 1834) • December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1837) ==References==