1894 in architecture
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The year 1894 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- In the United States, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
Buildings
- April 21 - Quatro de Setembro Theater, Teresina, Brazil, opened.
- May 14 - Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England, is completed and opened to the public.
- June 30 - Tower Bridge in London, designed by Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe-Barry, opened.
- Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, Puerto Rico, completed.
- Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, Germany, completed.
- Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí, completed.
- Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal, Canada, completed.
- Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, designed by Louis Sullivan, completed.
- Reichstag in Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot, completed.
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, designed by Jacob Winders and Frans van Dijk, completed.
- Dalen Hotel in Norway, designed by Haldor Børve, opened.
- Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia, completed.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Frederic Leighton.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
- February 18 - Paul Williams, California-based architect (died 1980)
Deaths
- April 11 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect and architectural theorist (born 1832)
- August 15 - Arthur Rotch, Boston-based architect (born 1850)
- September 16 - Eduard Mezger, Bavarian architect, painter, professor and high civil officer of the royal buildings administration (born 1807)
- December 16 - Alexandru Orăscu, Romanian Neoclassicist architect (born 1817)