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1800 In Architecture
The year 1800 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * June 30 – Replacement Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ..., Lombardy, designed by Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, is opened. * November 1 – White House, The White House in Washington D.C., United States, is completed. However, the porticoes are not added until 1825 in architecture, 1825. * The King's Inns in Dublin, designed by James Gandon, are completed. * Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile is completed. * East Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, designed by John Nash (architect), John Nash for his own use, is completed. * Tyringham Hall near Newport Pagnell in England, designed by John Soane, is completed. * Gosford H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorable Society Of King's Inns, Dublin
''The Honourable'' (British English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general and consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners. Africa The Congo In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the prefix 'Honourable' or 'Hon.' is used for members of both chambers of the Parliament of the Democratic Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyringham Hall
Tyringham Hall (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a Grade I listed stately home, originally designed by Sir John Soane in 1792. It is located in Tyringham near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. Architecture The house was built on the site of the original manor house by William Praed William Praed (24 June 1747 – 9 October 1833) was an English businessman, banker, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1808. He is not to be confused with his first cousin of the same name, William Mackworth Praed, serj ..., with plans by Sir John Soane. Later additions by Edwin Lutyens in 1924 include the Bathing Pavilion, Temple of Music and Rose Garden. Tyringham Hall stands in Lutyens’ formally laid-out gardens, with a tree-lined drive leading past the deer park to a gravel sweep in front of the house. The façade features stone columns with sphinxes on either side of the entrance porch leading to the reception rooms. The Temple of Music had a Welte-Philharmonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Architecture
The year 1870 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * 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. * 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. * App ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In Architecture
The year 1881 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * Alþingishúsið in Reykjavík, Iceland, designed by Ferdinand Meldahl, is opened to house the Althing (national parliament) * British Museum (Natural History) in London, England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, is opened * Founder's Building at Royal Holloway College, Egham in England, designed by William Henry Crossland, is completed * Tweed Courthouse is completed by Leopold Eidlitz in New York City * The National Theatre (Prague), designed in 1865–68 by Josef Zítek, is opened officially * Construction of St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth, England, designed by John Loughborough Pearson, is begun Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Godwin. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Deglane. Births * March 29 – Raymond Hood, American Art Deco architect (died 1934) * August 2 – Walter Godfrey, English architectural historian and architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decimus Burton
Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian neoclassical and Regency styles. He was a founding fellow and vice-president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1840 architect to the Royal Botanic Society, and an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose clubhouse he designed and which the company of his father, James Burton, the pre-eminent Georgian London property developer, built. Burton's works are Hyde Park, London (including the gate or screen of Hyde Park Corner, and the Wellington Arch, and the Gates); Green Park and St James's Park; Regent's Park (including Cornwall Terrace, York Terrace, Clarence Terrace, Chester Terrace, and the villas of the Inner Circle which include his own mansion, The Holme, and the original Winfield House); the enclosure of the forecourt of Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1869 In Architecture
The year 1869 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Construction of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, designed by Christian Jank, is begun. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * February 3 – Booth's Theatre, New York City, United States. * May 12 – Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott, consecrated. * May 25 – Vienna State Opera, constructed by Josef Hlávka to designs by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. van der Nüll hanged himself in 1868 in disappointment at the public reaction to the design and von Sicardsburg died of tuberculosis a few months later. * June – Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, Japan. * October 19 – St Barnabas Church, Oxford, England, designed by Arthur Blomfield, consecrated. * November 6 – Blackfriars Bridge, London, England. * November 17 – The modern Suez Canal. * December 31 – St Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill, London, designed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaiah Rogers
Isaiah Rogers (August 17, 1800 – April 13, 1869) was an American architect from Massachusetts who eventually moved his practice south, where he was based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He completed numerous designs for hotels, courthouses and other major buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, before that relocation. He was appointed in 1863 as the Supervising Architect of the United States, serving into 1865; the position was then attached to the Department of the Treasury. He also practiced in Mobile, Alabama after the American Civil War. Background Rogers was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts to Isaac Rogers, a farmer and shipwright, and his wife Hannah Ford. In 1823 he married Emily Wesley Tobey of Portland, Maine. The couple had eight children, four of whom survived infancy. Two of his sons followed him into the profession of architecture. Rogers was a student of Solomon Willard. He became one of the country's foremost hotel architects an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 In Architecture
The year 1875 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * January 5 – Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera in France, designed by Charles Garnier, opens. * June 13 – Sage Chapel at Cornell University, designed by Charles Babcock, holds opening services. * Sydney Town Hall in Sydney, Australia is completed. * William Watts Sherman House, Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, is built. * The Hermannsdenkmal monument in Berlin, Germany, designed by sculptor Ernst von Bandel, is completed. * Cize–Bolozon viaduct opens to rail traffic across the Ain in France. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edmund Sharpe. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Edmond Paulin. Organisations * German firm Wayss & Freitag formed, who pioneered reinforced concrete. Births * May 12 – Charles Holden, English architect noted for London Underground stations (died 1960) * July – W. Curtis Green, English commercial arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Willis (engineer)
The Reverend Robert Willis (27 February 1800 – 28 February 1875) was an English academic. He was the first Cambridge professor to win widespread recognition as a mechanical engineer, and first to set the scientific study of vowels on a respectable foundation. He is now best remembered for his extensive writings on architectural history, including many studies of mediaeval cathedrals and a four-volume treatise on the architecture of the University of Cambridge. He was described by Pevsner as "the greatest English architectural historian of the 19th century". Biography Early life and first years in Cambridge Willis was born in London on 27 February 1800. His father was Dr Robert Darling Willis, physician to King George III. He was a grandson of Francis Willis. His paternal uncle was Rear Admiral Richard Willis. His health was delicate, which prevented him from going to school, and he was privately tutored. He showed talent in music, and as a draughtsman, and when he was 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birch's Views Of Philadelphia
''Birch's Views of Philadelphia'' was an 1800 book of prints drawn and engraved by William Birch (painter), William Russell Birch (1755–1834) and his son Thomas Birch (artist), Thomas Birch (1779–1851). The 27 illustrations of the city are extraordinarily valuable to historians because they document Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia architecture and street-life at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Formally titled ''The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800'', the volume was self-published by William Birch in December 1800. Birch was a British-born Portrait miniature, miniature painter and engraver, and this became his most famous work. Philadelphia was the Residence Act, temporary capital of the United States when the Birches began the project in 1798, and among the 156 subscribers to the initial printing was Vice-President Thomas Jefferson. Other subscribers included British Minister to the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. In 1754, he left for Rome, spending nearly five years on the continent studying architecture under Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. On his return to Britain he established a practice in London, where he was joined by his younger brother James. Here he developed the "Adam Style", and his theory of "movement" in architecture, based on his studies of antiquity and became one of the most successful and fashionable architects in the country. Adam held the post of Architect of the King's Works from 1761 to 1769. Robert Adam was a leader of the first phase of the classical revival in En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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