1935 in architecture

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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

• June 2 - Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.
• July 13 - Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
• July 22 - Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.
• August 5 - Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
• September 30 - Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
• November 4 - Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren
• November 18
  • Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by Kārlis Zāle, is unveiled.
  • Opelwerk Brandenburg, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.

Buildings completed

Fallingwater

• Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion, Istanbul, designed by Seyfi Arkan and gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
• Highpoint I apartment block, Highgate, north London, by Berthold Lubetkin with structural design by Ove Arup.
• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff
• Supreme Court of the United States by Cass Gilbert, completed posthumously
• Von Sternberg House, Northridge, California, by Richard Neutra
• Stockholm Collective House by Sven Markelius with Alva Myrdal
• Dispensario Antituberculoso, Barcelona, by Josep Lluís Sert
• An-Nasr Mosque, Nablus, Palestine.
• Grand Mosque of Mopti, French Sudan.
• El Omrane Mosque, Tunis.
• Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India, designed by Henry Medd.
• Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson.
• Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.

Events

• May 29 - Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie, with Art Déco and Streamline Moderne interiors designed under the supervision of Roger-Henri Expert, begins her maiden voyage.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Willem Marinus Dudok.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Paul Domenc.

Births

• March 3 - Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
• May 7 - Michael Hopkins, English architect
• June 1 - Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners
• November 20 - Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)
• October 27 - Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
• October 31 - John Melvin, English architect

Deaths

• March 27 - Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
• April 5 - Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
• July 6 - Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
• July 7 - George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)