1928 | Architecture, Real Estate
Architecture, Real Estate
The prefabricated Dymaxion House designed by Massachusetts-born architectural visionary R. (Richard) Buckminster Fuller, 33, has rooms hung from a central mast with outer walls of continuous glass (see 1945).
City planner Sir Ebenezer Howard dies at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, May 1 at age 78, having had a worldwide influence with his proposal for "garden cities."
The planned community of Radburn, N.J., goes up with designs by Rochester, N.Y.-born architect and city planner Clarence S. Stein, 46, and his Lawrence, Kansas-born colleague Henry Wright, 51, whose aim is not to make the most economical use of land but the most economical use of people with details planned to protect residents from air pollution, the abrasive effects of noise, needless tensions, fears, and alienation. Economic factors will delay completion of the first modern "new town," but Stein and Wright will go on to design Chatham Village outside Pittsburgh, Sunnyside Gardens in Queens (N.Y), and Kitimat in British Columbia.
Air conditioning is installed in the House of Representatives at Washington, D.C., and will be installed next year in the Senate (see 1922; Rivoli Theater, 1925). The heat and humidity of the nation's capitol have made it almost uninhabitable in summer, and the advent of air conditioning will bring an increase in the city's population and longer sessions for Congress (see White House, Supreme Court, 1930).
Detroit's 47-story Greater Penobscot building is completed at the corner of Griswold and First streets.
The Beverly Wilshire Hotel is completed on Rodeo Drive at Beverly Hills, Calif.
London's Grosvenor House hotel opens in Park Line with 467 rooms on eight floors.
Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel opens December 11 to give the crown colony a luxury hostelry.