1873 in architecture

none 1873 architecture The year 1873 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events May 1–October 31 – 1873 Vienna World's Fair (Weltausstellung 1873 Wien) is staged with the Rotunde as centrepiece. Architect for the exposition is Karl von Hasenauer, who is created Freiherr for his services; engineer for the Rotunda roof is John Scott Russell. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1873 Buildings opened thumb|right|A high point of Victorian architecture: G. G. Scott’s Midland Grand Hotel fronting London St Pancras station May 5 – Midland Grand Hotel in London, England, is substantially completed and opened, the largest hotel in the world at this time.http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=583&storycode=3141089&c=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20101028002435/http://www.building.co.uk/sleeping-beauty-awakes-the-st-pancras-midland-grand-hotel/3141089.article 2010-10-28 Sleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel building.co.uk 2009-05-22 Thomas Lane August 22 – Garrett Theatre, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.Baptista de Lima João Póvoa de Varzim – Monografia e Materiais para a sua história Na Linha do horizonte – Biblioteca Poveira CMPV 2008 September 2 – The Berlin Victory Column in Berlin, Germany. September 29 – Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, Canada.http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Ontario-s-Places-of-Worship/Inventory/Search-results-details.aspx?ItemID=196 Heritage Trust. 2014-08-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20150410122148/http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/Ontario-s-Places-of-Worship/Inventory/Search-results-details.aspx?ItemID=196 2015-04-10 dead Buildings completed Ørskog Church, Norway, by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. Rua Augusta Arch in Lisbon, built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake.De Macedo Joaquim A Guide to Lisbon and Its Environs Including Cintra and Mafra with a Large Plan of Lisbon Read Books 2010 passim 978-1-4455-5194-4 Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, designed by H. H. Richardson. Rood Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 549 Lordship Lane: the "Concrete House", East Dulwich, London. Buckley Arms hotel, Dinas Mawddwy, Wales, built in reinforced concrete.http://www.thebuckleyarms.co.uk/Hotel_Snowdonia_Wales.asp?ID=6&level1ID=0&Level2ID=0 The Buckley Arms usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120314041710/http://www.thebuckleyarms.co.uk/Hotel_Snowdonia_Wales.asp?ID=6&level1ID=0&Level2ID=0 2012-03-14 2012-03-14 2022-03-02 Wayback Machine Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Thomas Henry Wyatt Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Marcel Lambert Births February 2 – Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect (died 1956) August 20 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish art deco architect (died 1950) November 10 – David Lynn, US architect, Architect of the Capitol 1923–1954 (died 1961)Architect of the Capitol David Lynn http://www.aoc.gov/architect-of-the-capitol/david-lynn 2012-11-28 date unknown – Salvador Valeri i Pupurull, Catalan architect (died 1954) Deaths May 2 – Samuel Sanders Teulon, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1812)Samuel Sanders Teulon, Fellow Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1872–73 1873 https://books.google.com/books?id=ygotAAAAYAAJ&q=Samuel+Sanders+Teulon 215–7 date unknown – Sampson Kempthorne, English architect and workhouse designer also practising in New Zealand (born 1809) References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture