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Overview of the events of 1885 in architecture
The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Holloway Sanatorium
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
July 13 – New building for the
Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam , designed by
Pierre Cuypers .
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November 30 –
London Pavilion variety theatre, designed by
Robert Worley and
James Ebenezer Saunders .
December 27 – Church of
St. Peter, Leipzig , designed by
August Hartel and
Constantin Lipsius .
Castle Hotel, Conwy ,
Wales .
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Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Busovača , Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Vestermarie Church , Bornholm, Denmark.
Metropole Hotel, London , designed by
Francis Fowler and James Ebenezer Saunders.
Buildings completed
The
Academy of Athens , Greece
Autumn – The
Home Insurance Building in
Chicago, Illinois , designed by
William Le Baron Jenney . With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first
skyscraper .
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Academy of Athens (Greece), designed by
Theophil Hansen in
1859 .
Holloway Sanatorium near
Virginia Water in England, designed by
William Henry Crossland .
Sway Tower in
Hampshire , England, designed by
Andrew Peterson using concrete made with
Portland cement . It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.
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House for
Kate Greenaway ,
Frognal , London, designed by
Richard Norman Shaw .
Elmside (house),
Grange Road, Cambridge , England, designed by
Edward Prior .
Rebuilt
Framingham Railroad Station in
Framingham, Massachusetts , designed by
H. H. Richardson .
Awards
Births
February 23 –
Yoshikazu Uchida , Japanese architect and structural engineer (died
1972 )
July 13 –
Adolf Behne , German art historian, architectural writer and leader of the Avant Garde movement (died
1948 )
July 15 –
Josef Frank , Austrian-born architect and designer (died
1967 )
July 29 –
Sigurd Lewerentz , Swedish architect and furniture designer (died
1975 )
August 13 –
Charles Howard Crane , American architect (died
1952 )
August 30 –
Paul Gösch , German Expressionist artist, architect, lithographer and designer (died
1940 )
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September 22 –
Gunnar Asplund , Swedish "Nordic Classicist" architect (died
1940 )
December 5 –
Ernest Cormier , Canadian engineer and architect (died
1980 )
December 17 –
Wells Coates , Canadian architect, designer and writer (died
1958 )
December 28 –
Vladimir Tatlin , Russian painter and architect (died
1953 )
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Deaths
February 1 –
Henri Dupuy de Lôme , French naval architect (born
1816 )
March 9 –
Matthew Ellison Hadfield , English Victorian Gothic architect (born
1812 )
May 22 –
Théodore Ballu , French architect of public buildings (born
1817 )
May 28 –
Horace King , US architect, engineer, and bridge builder.
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June 14 –
William Tinsley , US-based Irish architect (born
1804 )
August 1 –
Thomas Leverton Donaldson , British architect, co-founder and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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August 24 –
Eduard Riedel , German architect and Bavarian government building officer (born
1813 )
September 2 –
Giuseppe Bonavia , Maltese architect (born
1821 )
November 16 –
Frederick Ernst Ruffini , US architect (born
1851 )
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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"Stadhouderskade 42. Rijksmuseum (1876/85)" . Monumenten en Archeologie in Amsterdam .
City of Amsterdam . Archived from
the original on February 9, 2007. Retrieved 2013-03-24 .
^
Cadw ,
"Castle Hotel (3301)" ,
National Historic Assets of Wales , retrieved 11 April 2019
^ (in Croatian)
http://www.bosnasrebrena.ba/v2010/samostani-i-zupe/samostansko-podrucje-fojnica/busovaca.html
Archived 2016-09-15 at the
Wayback Machine
^
"Home Insurance Building" . SkyscraperPage .
Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-27 .
^ James, J. (1997). All about Sway Tower . Lymington: Lymington Museum Trust.
^ Trout, Edwin (October 2002). "Sway Tower: an early example of high-rise concrete construction". Concrete : 64–5.
^ Pehnt, Wolfgang (1973). Expressionist Architecture . Westport, CT: Praeger.
^ Selz, Peter (1957). German Expressionist Painting . Berkeley: University of California Press.
^ Lynton, Norbert (2009). Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution . New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 1.
ISBN
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^ Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia,
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