Events
* Construction work begins on ** Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, Rosario, Argentina. ** Provinciaal Hof, Bruges, Flanders, designed by Louis Delacenserie and René Buyck. ** Ponce de León Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Carrère and Hastings.Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
* March 29 – Peebles Old Parish Church, Scotland, designed by William Young (architect), William Young (dedicated). * April 23 – Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași, Romania, completed by Alexandru Orăscu (dedicated). * June 20 – Victoria Terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in Bombay, designed by Frederick William Stevens. * December 1 – Raffles Hotel, Singapore.Buildings completed
* Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral, designed by Pugin & Pugin. * New façade of Florence Cathedral, designed by Emilio De Fabris (died 1883 in architecture, 1883). * Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam, designed by Adrianus Bleijs. * St Paul's Church, Aarhus, designed by Vilhelm Theodor Walther. * Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue, Romania, designed by engineer Izidor Hegner. * Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York City, designed by Peter and Francis William Herter. * Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo, designed by Josip Vancaš. * Rebuilt Gare Saint-Lazare terminus of Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in Paris, designed by Juste Lisch. * Clock tower of Rochdale Town Hall in England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse.Awards
* Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ewan Christian.Publications
* MacGibbon and Ross begin publication of ''The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century''. * G. A. Wayss publishes ''Das System Monier-Eisengerippe mit Cementumhüllung-in seiner Anwendung auf das gesammte Bauwesen'' in Berlin, one of the first books on reinforced concrete (using Joseph Monier's system).Births
* March 21 – Erich Mendelsohn, German-Jewish Expressionist architect (died 1953 in architecture, 1953) * May 10 – Herbert James Rowse, English architect noted for work in Liverpool (died 1963 in architecture, 1963) * May 31 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (died 1956 in architecture, 1956) * June 15 – Oliver Hill (architect), Oliver Hill, English architect (died 1968 in architecture, 1968) * August 30 – Eric Francis (architect), Eric Francis, British architect and painter (died 1976 in architecture, 1976) * October 6 – Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and pioneer of modern architecture (died 1965 in architecture, 1965)Deaths
* April 13 – David Stirling (architect), David Stirling, Scottish-born Canadian architect (born 1822 in architecture, 1822) * May 8 – Thomas Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1818 in architecture, 1818) * May 21 – Sir Horace Jones (architect), Horace Jones, English architect (born 1819 in architecture, 1819) * August 16 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (born 1837 in architecture, 1837)References
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