1870 in architecture

none 1870 architecture The year 1870 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1870 Buildings thumb|University of Glasgow January 6 – The Musikverein in Vienna, designed by Theophil Hansen, is inaugurated. May 1 – Equitable Life Building (New York City), designed by Arthur Gilman and Edward H. Kendall, with George B. Post as a consulting engineer, is completed. The 7-storey building is the first office block to incorporate passenger elevators, hydraulic examples by the Elisha Otis company. June 23 – Keble College, Oxford, designed by William Butterfield, is opened. August 9 – Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia is opened. November – University of Glasgow new campus building, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is opened. All Saints' Church, Cambridge, England, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed. Perth Town Hall in Australia, designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning, is completed. David Sassoon Library in Bombay, designed by J. Campbell and G. E. Gosling, is completed. Khotan Mosque in China is built. Approximate date – Les Halles markets in Paris, designed by Victor Baltard, completed. Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Benjamin Ferrey. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. Births April 17 – Max Berg, German architect and urban planner (died 1947)artnet biography November 18 – P. Morley Horder, English architect (died 1944) December 10 – Adolf Loos, Austrian-Czech Modernist architect (died 1933).http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx Adolf Loos: Life and influence 20 June 2012 Royal Institute of British Architects https://web.archive.org/web/20130512170143/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx 2013-05-12 dead December 15 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (died 1965)Josef Hoffmann http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18046353/ Collection Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 3 October 2012 thumb|upright|Ferdinand Stadler Deaths January 2 – Ignatius Bonomi, English architect and surveyor (born 1787) February 15 – William Burn, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (born 1789) March 24 – Ferdinand Stadler, Swiss architect (born 1813) c. May – John Skipton Mulvany, Irish architect (born 1813) October 8 – Félix Duban, French architect (born 1798)Félix Duban (1798-1870) - Author - Resources from the BnF http://data.bnf.fr/12128000/felix_duban/ data.bnf.fr 23 August 2018 en December 28 – Philip Hardwick, English architect particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London (born 1792) References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture