Buildings and structures
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Opened
- February 22 – Loew's 175th Street Theatre on Manhattan, designed by Thomas W. Lamb with interiors by the Rambusch Decorating Company.
- 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 Münster, designed by Carl Moritz.
- June 21 – Hus' House (Vršovice) church and community centre in Prague, designed by Karel Truksa and Pavel Janák.
- August 18 – Salginatobel Bridge in Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.
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, Australia.[1]
- Guenete Leul Palace, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, built for Emperor Haile Selassie.
- Palazzo Gualino, Turin, Italy, designed by Giuseppe Pagano and Gino Levi-Montalcini.
- IG Farben Building, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.[2]
- Crawford's Advertising Agency, 233 High Holborn, London, designed by Frederick Etchells with Herbert A. Welch.[3]
- Thames House on Millbank, Westminster, London, designed by Frank Baines.
- Station reconstructions on Berlin U-Bahn, designed by Alfred Grenander.
- Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe estate), one of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates in Weimar Germany, designed by Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner.
- Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna, designed by Karl Ehn, opens, a half-mile-wide (1100 m) apartment building.
- The Terminal Tower complex in Cleveland, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White.
- Apartments for social housing in Page Street, Westminster, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.[4]
- Castle Drogo, a country house in Devon, England designed by Edwin Lutyens.
- Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland.
- Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czechoslovakia, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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