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Overview of the events of 1931 in architecture
The year 1931 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events Buildings and structures Buildings Sudbury Town Station in London , EnglandVilla Savoye in Paris , FranceRobinson Crusoe House and Atlantis House on Böttcherstraße in Bremen , GermanyJanuary 23 – Viceroy's House , New Delhi , India , designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens , first occupied.
May 1 – The Empire State Building is completed in New York City as the tallest building in the world .
July 1 – The rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station opens in Italy .
July 19 – Sudbury Town station on the London Underground Piccadilly line opens as rebuilt by Charles Holden , the first of his iconic modern designs for the network.[1]
21 West Street in New York City , designed by Starrett & van Vleck , completed.Villa Savoye in Paris , designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret , using reinforced concrete and demonstrating Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture , is completed.[2] [3] Commerce Court North is completed in Toronto , Ontario and becomes the tallest building in the British Empire (1931–1962) .George Washington Bridge the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1931–1937), is completed.Royal Corinthian Yacht Club clubhouse, Burnham-on-Crouch , eastern England, designed by Joseph Emberton , is opened.[4] St Olaf House (Hay's Wharf head offices), Tooley Street , London Borough of Southwark , designed by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel .[5] Raleigh Bicycle Company head offices in Nottingham , England, designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt , completed.[6] Aiton & Co. factory office, Derby , England, designed by Norah Aiton and Betty Scott, completed.[7]
India Tyres offices at Inchinnan , Scotland, designed by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners , completed and opened.Atlantis House and Robinson Crusoe House in Böttcherstraße , Bremen , designed by Bernhard Hoetger , complete the street's construction in the style of Brick Expressionism .[8] City Hall, Hilversum , North Holland , designed by Willem Marinus Dudok , is completed.
India Gate in New Delhi is completed.Student Union at the Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm , designed by Sven Markelius and Uno Åhrén .South Houses , California Institute of Technology , Pasadena , designed by Gordon Kaufmann .Washington Singer Building on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter in England , designed by Vincent Harris .
New Synagogue, Žilina , Czechoslovakia, designed by Peter Behrens , is completed.High and Over, Amersham , one of the first modernist houses in England, designed by Amyas Connell , is completed.
House for two brothers in Brno , designed by Otto Eisler , is completed.[9]
Apartment Building at 342, Muntaner Street, Barcelona , designed by Josep Lluís Sert , is completed.
The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois is demolished. Awards Births Alessandro Mendini Deaths References 
