1894 in architecture

The year 1894 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• In the United States, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
• Anatole de Baudot designs the church of Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre in Paris as the first to use a reinforced concrete frame.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1894

Buildings opened

 

The Tower Bridge in London

• April 21 – Quatro de Setembro Theater, Teresina, Brazil.
• May 14 – Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England, completed to a design by Maxwell and Tuke and opened to the public.
• June 30 – Tower Bridge in London, designed by Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe-Barry.
• July
  • Dalen Hotel in Norway, designed by Haldor Børve.^[1]
  • Palais Galliera in Paris, designed by Léon Ginain.
• October 16 – Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, designed by Fellner & Helmer.

Buildings completed

 

Reichstag

 

Hôtel Tassel, pioneering Art Nouveau

• Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, Germany.
• Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal, Canada.
• Reformed Church, Dresden, designed by Harald Julius von Bosse (demolished 1963).
• Ringkirche, Wiesbaden, designed by Johannes Otzen.
• Sacred Heart Church (Kőszeg, Hungary), designed by Ludwig Schöne.
• St. Peter's Church, Jaffa.^[2]
• Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
• Columbus Hall (school and theater) in Orange, NJ designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke.
• Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
• Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
• Reichstag in Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot.
• Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, designed by Jean-Jacques Winders and Frans Van Dijk.
• Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, designed by Louis Sullivan.
• Hôtel Tassel (town house), Brussels, designed by Victor Horta.
• Hurlbut Memorial Gate, Detroit, Michigan, USA.^[3]
• Lululaund, a house for Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, England, based on a design by Henry Hobson Richardson (d. 1886) (demolished 1939).
• Rebuilt Köln Hauptbahnhof railway station in Cologne, Germany, designed by E. Grüttefie (engineer) and Georg Frentzen (architect).
• Negril Lighthouse, Jamaica.^[4]
• De Arend, Coevorden (smock mill), Netherlands.^[5]

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frederic Leighton.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred-Henri Recoura.

Births

• February 18 – Paul Williams, California-based architect (died 1980)

Deaths

• April 11 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and architectural theorist (born 1832)
• June 27 – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
• August 15 – Arthur Rotch, Boston-based architect (born 1850)
• September 16 – Eduard Mezger, Bavarian architect, painter, professor and high civil officer of the royal buildings administration (born 1807)
• December 16 – Alexandru Orăscu, Romanian Neoclassicist architect (born 1817)

References

1. Virtual Tourist: Dalen Travel Guide Archived 2013-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
2. "St. Peter's Church". Israel Ministry of Tourism. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
3. Laurie J. Marzejka (June 14, 2000)."Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past," Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today. Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved on March 28, 2009.
4. Negril Point Lighthouse Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Jamaica National Heritage Trust, 2005.
5. "Technische gegevens" (in Dutch). De Hollandsche Molen. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 12 August 2009. (Click on "Technische gegevens" to view)