1941 in architecture

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The year 1941 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Australian War Memorial

• Hoover Tower in Stanford, California, United States, designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., completed.
• Fen Building at Peterhouse, Cambridge, England, designed by H. C. Hughes and Peter Bicknell, completed.
• Dublin Airport passenger terminal, Ireland, designed by Desmond FitzGerald, opened.
• Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, completed.
• Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, completed.
• Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, completed.
• Replica of the Parthenon, in concrete, in Nashville, Tennessee, completed.
• Presidential Palace of Tirana, in Tirana, Albania, completed.
• Karlskoga city hall in Sweden designed by Sune Lindström.
• National and University Library of Slovenia in Ljubljana, designed by Jože Plečnik in 1930/31, completed.
• Biblioteca Cantonale (Cantonal Library) in Lugano, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, designed by Rino and Carlo Tami, completed.
• St Peter's Church, Grange Park, Enfield, London, designed by Cyril Farey, built using recycled materials.
• Schwerbelastungskörper, Berlin, Germany, built by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG.
• Kahn House in Ngaio, New Zealand, designed by Ernst Plischke, completed.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: no competition.

Schwerbelastungskörper

Births

• September 13 - Tadao Ando, Japanese "critical regionalist" architect
• date unknown - Peter Corrigan, Australian architect
• approximate date - Yasmeen Lari, Pakistani architect

Deaths

• February 12 - Charles Voysey, English Arts and Crafts designer and domestic architect (born 1857)
• August 26 - Sir Alfred Gelder, English architect and politician active in Kingston upon Hull (born 1855)
• September 2 - H. Craig Severance, American architect active in New York (born 1879)
• December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect (born 1890)