1928 in architecture

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The year 1928 in architecture involved some significant events.

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First Dymaxion House is designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller.
The Royal Horticultural Society New Building, a second exhibition hall for the RHS, designed by Easton & Robertson is completed. Located in Westminster, London, it was the first in the UK to have a parabolic curved concrete roof structure.
Villa Savoye in Poissy-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier is completed.
Work is completed on the second Goetheanum designed by Rudolf Steiner.
Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow, designed by Konstantin Melnikov is completed.
The Großmarkthalle at Frankfurt am Main, by Martin Elsaesser, is completed.
Firestone Tyre Factory on the 'Golden Mile' of London's Great West Road, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style (demolished 1980).

Olympic gold medal - Jan Wils of the Netherlands for Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
Olympic silver medal - Einar Mindedal Rasmussen of Denmark for Swimming pool at Ollerup.
Olympic bronze medal - Jacques Lambert of France for Stadium at Versailles.
Royal Gold Medal - Guy Dawber.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).