1852 in architecture
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The year 1852 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- February - Augustus Pugin suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a private asylum, Kensington House, London.
- June - Augustus Pugin is transferred to the Royal Bethlem Hospital.[1]
- date unknown - Thomas M. Penson restores a house at 22 Eastgate Street, Chester, in black-and-white Revival style.[2][3]
Buildings completed
- Amodt bro suspension bridge, Oslo, Norway.
- Helsinki Cathedral, Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, completed.
- The House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster, London (England) designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.
- Teatro Comunale Alighieri in Ravenna, designed by Tommaso and Giambattista Meduna, is opened.
- London King's Cross railway station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, opened.[4]
- Battle railway station, East Sussex (England), designed by William Tress, opened.
- Philippi Covered Bridge, West Virginia, USA.[5]
- Siegestor (Victory Gate) in Munich, Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner, is completed by Eduard Mezger.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Leo von Klenze.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - P.R.L. Ginain.
Births
- June 25 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan Modernist architect (died 1926)[6]
- July 4 - E. S. Prior, English Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (died 1932)
Deaths
- May 7 - James Savage, English architect (born 1779; buried in his St Luke's Church, Chelsea)
- May 8 - Giuseppe Jappelli, Italian neoclassical architect and engineer (born 1783)
- September 14 - Augustus Pugin, English architect, designer, artist and critic (born 1812; "convulsions followed by coma")
References
- ^ Hill, Rosemary, 2007, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, pp. 484–490.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003). The Buildings of England: Cheshire. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-300-09588-0.
- ^ "No. 22 Eastgate Street and Row", Images of England, English Heritage, retrieved 2009-08-01
- ^ Jackson, Alan A. (1985). London's Termini. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8634-7.
- ^ Covered Bridges in West Virginia. Morgantown, West Virginia: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archeology.
- ^ Massó, Juan Bergós (1974). Gaudí, l'home i la obra (in Catalan). Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. ISBN 84-600-6248-1. pp 17–18