1887 in architecture

The year 1887 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• March 29 - Peebles Old Parish Church, Scotland, designed by William Young, dedicated.
• April 23 - Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași, Romania, completed by Alexandru Orăscu, dedicated.
• December 1 - Raffles Hotel, Singapore opened.
• Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral, designed by Pugin & Pugin, completed.
• New façade of Florence Cathedral, designed by Emilio De Fabris (d. 1883), completed.
• Church of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam, designed by Adrianus Bleijs, completed.
• St Paul's Church, Aarhus, designed by Vilhelm Theodor Walther, completed.
• Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue, Romania, designed by engineer Izidor Hegner, completed.
• Ponce de León Hotel,St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Carrère and Hastings, begun.
• Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, Rosario, Argentina begun.

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.
• A.G. Wayss publishes one of the first books on reinforced concrete.

Births

• March 21 - Erich Mendelsohn (died 1953)
• October 6 - Le Corbusier (died 1965)

Deaths

• Sir Horace Jones (born 1819)