 the year 1930 in architecture involved some significant events. ==buildings== ===opened=== *march 22 - le touret memorial, france. *april 8 - brisbane city hall, brisbane, australia. *june 9 - the chicago board of trade building, designed by holabird & roche. *june 17 - erphokirche in mÃ¼nster, designed by carl moritz. *june 21 - hus' house (vrÅ¡ovice) church and community centre in prague, designed by karel truksa and pavel janÃ¡k. ===completed===  *april - 40 wall street (at this time the bank of manhattan trust building), briefly the tallest building in the world. *may 20 - chrysler building in new york, designed by william van alen, succeeds the bank of manhattan trust building as the tallest building in the world and the eiffel tower as the tallest structure. it remains the world's tallest steel-supported brick building. *july 3 - grace building, sydney, australianew south wales state library: grace building. accessed 21 april 2013 * guenete leul palace, addis ababa, ethiopia, built for emperor haile selassie * ig farben building, frankfurt am main, germany" * karl-marx-hof in vienna, designed by karl ehn, opens (massive half-mile-wide apartment building, 1100 m). * the terminal tower complex in cleveland, designed by graham, anderson, probst, and white. * apartments for social housing in page street, westminster, designed by edwin lutyens, are completed. * chachmei lublin yeshiva in lublin, poland. * villa tugendhat in brno, czechoslovakia, designed by ludwig mies van der rohe. ==awards== *american academy of arts and letters gold medal â charles a. platt. * royal gold medal - percy scott worthington. ==references==  ==births== *june 29 - jan hoogstad, dutch architect *september 1 - charles correa, indian architect, planner and activist ==deaths== *april 12 - karl lindahl, finnis
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