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1836 in architecture
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1836 architecture
The year 1836 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1836
Buildings
thumb|right|The Inverness Castle, Scotland
January – Charles Barry wins the competition for the design of a new Palace of Westminster in London in Gothic Revival style.
January 26 – Lansdowne Bridge in Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia, designed by David Lennox, is opened.Lansdowne Bridge over Prospect Creek http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4301042 Heritage and conservation register Roads & Maritime Services, New South Wales Government 2014-07-07 2015-11-20
May 5 – St Ignatius Church, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph John Scoles, is opened.St Ignatius, Preston – Roman Catholic http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Preston/StIgnatius.shtml GENUKI 2014 2015-03-20
July 29 – The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, completed by Jean-François Chalgrin following the death of Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury, is inaugurated.
October 4 – Rebuilt Christiania Theatre opens in Norway.
Fleetwood Customs House in England, designed by Decimus Burton, is completed.
Mexican Hothouse in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, by Charles Rohault de Fleury, is completed; an early example of French glass and metal architecture.
Glynnwood Plantation is built in Glynn, near Pointe Coupee, Louisiana.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Inverness Castle, Scotland, designed by William Burn, is built.
Publications
August 4 – A. W. N. Pugin publishes his Contrasts, a treatise on the morality of Catholic Gothic architecture.
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François-Louis-Florimond Boulanger and Jean-Jacques Clerget.
Births
March 2 – E. R. Robson, English architect specialising in schools (died 1917)
March 20 – James Cubitt, English architect specialising in nonconformist chapels (died 1912)
Deaths
June 7 – Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (born 1753)
References
Architecture
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