# 1921 in architecture

The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* 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)