1852 in architecture

none 1852 architecture The year 1852 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events February – Augustus Pugin suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a private asylum, Kensington Housea, London, days after designing the clock tower for the Palace of Westminster.Hill Rosemary 2007 God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain 482–490 June – Augustus Pugin is transferred to the Royal Bethlem Hospital. date unknown – Thomas M. Penson restores a house at 22 Eastgate Street, Chester, England, in black-and-white Revival style.Pevsner Nikolaus Nikolaus Pevsner Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) Edward Hubbard The Buildings of England: Cheshire Yale University Press 2003 New Haven; London 38 0-300-09588-01376221 No. 22 Eastgate Street and Row 2017-02-12 Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1852 Buildings completed thumb|King's Cross railway station. thumb|British House of Commons. January 1 – Battle railway station, East Sussex (England), designed by William Tress, is opened. February 3 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster, London (England) designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, is opened. May 15 – Teatro Comunale Alighieri in Ravenna, designed by Tommaso and Giambattista Meduna, is opened. October 14 – London King's Cross railway station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, is opened.Jackson Alan A. London's Termini 1985 David & Charles Newton Abbot 978-0-7153-8634-7 Helsinki Cathedral, Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, is completed. Chapel of St Edmund's College, Ware, England, designed by Augustus Pugin in 1845, is completed. Rolle Mausoleum, Bicton, Devon, England, reconstructed by Augustus Pugin, is completed. Siegestor (Victory Gate) in Munich, Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner, is completed by Eduard Mezger. Åmodt bro suspension bridge, Oslo, Norway. Philippi Covered Bridge, West Virginia, United States.Covered Bridges in West Virginia Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archeology Morgantown, West Virginia Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Leo von Klenze. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – P.R.L. Ginain. Births June 25 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan Modernist architect (died 1926)Massó, Juan Bergós (1974). Gaudí, l'home i la obra (in Catalan). Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. 84-600-6248-1. pp 17–18 July 4 – E. S. Prior, English Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (died 1932) Deaths May 7 – James Savage, English architect (born 1779; buried in his St Luke's Church, Chelsea) May 8 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Italian neoclassical architect and engineer (born 1783) July 5 – Matthew Habershon, English architect (born 1789) September 14 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, designer, artist and critic (born 1812; "convulsions followed by coma") References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture