The year1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

• January 2 –Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed byWilliam J. Bain ofNBBJ, opened.
• February 19 –Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis), designed byLiebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
• February 28 –Bronx River Houses completed in theSoundview section ofThe Bronx in New York City.
• May 3 –Festival of Britain opened inLondon:
  • Royal Festival Hall, designed byLeslie Martin,Peter Moro andRobert Matthew.
  • Dome of Discovery, designed byRalph Tubbs.
  • Skylon, designed byPhilip Powell,Hidalgo Moya andFelix Samuely.
  • Telecinema, designed byWells Coates.
  • Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed byJane Drew withMaxwell Fry.^[1]
  • The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed byH. T. Cadbury-Brown.
  • Fountain byEduardo Paolozzi.
  • '51 Bar byLeonard Manasseh andIan Baker.
  • The bombedSt John's Church, Waterloo, remodelled byThomas Ford, is rededicated as the Festival church.
  • TheLansbury Estate inPoplar is begun as a housing showcase – including Trinity Congregational Church, designed by Cecil Handyside and Douglas Stark.
• May 23 –Terrace Theatre (Minnesota), designed byLiebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
• 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed inChicago, byLudwig Mies van der Rohe.
• Healy Guest House,Siesta Key, Florida, designed byPaul Rudolph andRalph Twitchell is completed.
• TheJK Building completed inBelo Horizonte, Brazil as designed byOscar Niemeyer.
• Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed byLudwig Mies van der Rohe.

• The antenna of theEmpire State Building in New York City is added to the building.
• Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in hisBuildings of England series forPenguin Books, the volume onNottinghamshire.
• Norman Jewson publishes his autobiographicalBy Chance I did Rove.

• AIA Gold Medal –Bernard Ralph Maybeck.
• RIBARoyal Gold Medal –Vincent Harris.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture –Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

• July 28 –Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer
• Yvonne Farrell, Irish architect

• February 6 –William Alexander Harvey, English architect working inBirmingham (born1874)
• July 22 –Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born1878)
• Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born1869)

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