1914 in architecture

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The year 1914 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures opened

• January 14 - "Bridge of Sighs" at Hertford College, Oxford, England, designed by Sir Thomas Jackson.
• April - Opera House, Wellington, New Zealand, designed by William Pitt.
• May 7 - King Edward VII Galleries at the British Museum, London, designed by Sir John Burnet.
• June 1 - Fairmont Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta
• August 15 - The Panama Canal, completed by George Washington Goethals.
• December 7 - Tepid Baths, Auckland, New Zealand.

Buildings completed

Sacré-Cœur, Paris

• Basilica of Sacré-Cœur, Paris, designed by Paul Abadie.
• Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antonio Gaudi.
• Stralsund Theatre, Germany, designed by Carl Moritz.
• Interior of Cadena Café, 59 Westbourne Grove, London, designed by Omega Workshops.

Events

• May 15–August 8 - Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, featuring the Glass Pavilion designed by Bruno Taut.
• August 15 - A dismissed servant kills seven people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including his mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Jean-Louis Pascal.
• Royal Gold Medal - Jean-Louis Pascal.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert Ferran.

Publications

• Albert Richardson - Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland
• Geoffrey Scott - The Architecture of Humanism: a study in the history of taste

Births

• February 24 - Ralph Erskine, English architect working in Sweden (died 2005)
• August 9 - Gordon Cullen, influential English architect and urban designer (died 1994)
• September 8 - Denys Lasdun, English architect best known for the Royal National Theatre, London (died 2001)
• September 13 - Ralph Rapson, American architect and head of architecture at the University of Minnesota (died 2008)
• December 5 - Lina Bo Bardi, Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect (died 1992)

Deaths

• May 24 - Herman Teodor Holmgren, Swedish architect (born 1842)
• August 30 - Ingress Bell, English architect and professional partner of Sir Aston Webb (born 1837)