1887 in architecture

none 1887 architecture The year 1887 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events Construction work begins on 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 Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1887 Buildings opened thumb|Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam thumb|upright|St Paul's Church, Aarhus March 29 – Peebles Old Parish Church, Scotland, designed by 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.https://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/945rev.pdf Advisory Body Evaluation: Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (India) UNESCO – World heritage – documents associated with listing 2004 UNESCO 2008-12-03 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). 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 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)http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/374782/Erich-Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn January 15, 2012 Encyclopædia Britannica May 10 – Herbert James Rowse, English architect noted for work in Liverpool (died 1963) May 31 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (died 1956) June 15 – Oliver Hill, English architect (died 1968) August 30 – Eric Francis, British architect and painter (died 1976) October 6 – Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and pioneer of modern architecture (died 1965) thumb|upright|Horace Jones Deaths April 13 – David Stirling, Scottish-born Canadian architect (born 1822)5853 May 8 – Thomas Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1818) May 21 – Sir Horace Jones, English architect (born 1819) August 16 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (born 1837) References Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1887 Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture