1907 in architecture

The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * January – Plans for St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers at Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member. The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
 * May 18 – The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
 * September 29 – The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
 * October 6 – Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich.
 * City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted.
 * District plan for Highland Park, Texas, by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up.
 * English designer C. R. Ashbee is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina, Sicily.

Buildings completed

 * April 13 – Old New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street on Manhattan, designed in Art Nouveau style by Robert D. Kohn, opened.
 * October 8 – Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner.
 * Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan.
 * Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool, England, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely.
 * Tampere Cathedral, Finland, designed by Lars Sonck.
 * Poti Cathedral in Georgia within the Russian Empire, designed by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the Hennebique system.
 * St Matthew's Church, Paisley in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
 * St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma).
 * Rebuilt Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine, designed by Fritz Beblo.
 * The Magasins Réunis, a large department store in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger (after seventeen years of work).
 * Villa Fruhinsholz in Nancy, France, designed by Léon Cayotte.
 * Stadttheater Barmen in Wuppertal and Stadttheater Düren, both designed by Carl Moritz in Germany.
 * North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad at Vassar College, USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
 * Rebuilt Basel SBB railway station in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Aston Webb.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Belcher.

Births

 * June 17 – Charles Eames, American designer (died 1978)
 * July 7 – Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli architect (died 1986)
 * August 13
 * J. M. Richards, English architectural writer (died 1992)
 * Basil Spence, Indian-born British architect (died 1976)
 * December 15 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (died 2012)
 * Walter Segal, German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died 1985)

Deaths

 * January 24 – Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish historicist architect (born 1826)
 * May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
 * June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born 1832)
 * October 21 – George Frederick Bodley, English architect (born 1827)
 * November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect (born 1854)