1935 in architecture

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

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.

Buildings opened

 * May 31 - Jubilee Pool, Penzance in Cornwall, England by Frank Latham.
 * June 2 – Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.
 * July 6 – New building for Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, by Ad van der Steur.
 * 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 3 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, South Island of New Zealand, by Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman after Esther Hope, is consecrated.
 * 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 5 – Faringdon Folly tower, England, by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners.
 * 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 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
 * Stern House, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa, by Rex Distin Martienssen and partners
 * Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, by Piero Portaluppi
 * 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
 * Church of Our Lady and the First Martyrs, Heaton, West Yorkshire, England, designed by J. H. Langtry-Langton
 * Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson
 * Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto
 * Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Exhibitions

 * Opened to the public April 19 - Industrial arts exposition at the Forum at Rockefeller Center in New York City; where models and plans for Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed Broadacre City were displayed for the first time.

Awards

 * RIBA 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 (died 2023)
 * 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)
 * September 2 – Sir Henry Tanner, English public building architect (born 1849)