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1803 In Architecture
The year 1803 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. * Holy Cross Church, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, dedicated. * St. John's Chapel (New York City), designed by John McComb, Jr. and his brother Isaac. * Rivington Unitarian Chapel in Lancashire, England. * Bob Church, Cluj, Transylvania. * Casa del Labrador, designed by Isidro González Velásquez, at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez in Spain is completed. * Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire, England, built by William Lightfoot. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François-Narcisse Pagot. Births *April 3 – David Bryce, Scottish architect (died 1876) *April 20 – Christian Hansen, Danish historicist architect (died 1883) *August 3 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener, architect and MP (died 1865) *October 16 – Robert Stephenson, English railway civil and mechanical engineer ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hansen (architect)
Hans Christian Hansen (20 April 1803 – 2 May 1883) was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis. Later in his career he returned to Denmark, where he became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and designed buildings such as the Copenhagen Municipal Hospital and the Østervold Observatory. He was the brother of Theophilus Hansen who was also an internationally successful architect, active in Athens and Vienna. He is considered to be a pioneer in the study and application of polychrome architecture. Biography Early life and career Christian Hansen was born in Copenhagen. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1816, just 13 years old, where he studied under Christian Frederik Hansen, the leading Danish architect of the time, and Gustav Friedrich Hetsch. Christian Frederik Hansen taught h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1803 Works
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Music Albums * ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * '' 18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. Songs * "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * "18" (One Direction song), from their 2014 studio album ''Four'' * "18", by Anarbor from their 2013 studio album '' Burnout'' * "I'm Eighteen", by Alice Cooper commonly r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1730 In Architecture
The year 1730 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Annenhof Palace in the Lefortovo District of Moscow, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. * The :File:Blenheim Column of Victory.JPG, Column of Victory at Blenheim Palace in England, designed by Roger Morris (1695–1749), Roger Morris and Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, Henry Herbert, is completed. * Zeughaus (arsenal, modern-day Deutsches Historisches Museum) on Unter den Linden in Berlin (Prussia), to a design originated by Johann Arnold Nering in 1695 in architecture, 1695 (the year of his death) and continued successively by Martin Grünberg, Andreas Schlüter and Jean de Bodt, is completed. * Senate House (University of Cambridge), designed by James Gibbs and James Burrough (architect), James Burrough, is completed. * St Anne's Limehouse, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, and St Paul's, Deptford, designed by Thomas Archer, are completed for the Commission for Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottone Calderari
Ottone Calderari (13 September 1730 – 26 October 1803) was an Italian architect and writer of architectural design. Calderari was born and died in Vicenza. He made the designs for the Palazzos Loschi (Zileri dal Verme), Anti, Sola, Bonini, and Cordellina located in and near Vicenza. He completed the Palazzetto Capra Lampertico for the . He helped construct the church of Santorso, province of Vicenza. His design for a facade of the church of San Marco in San Girolamo in Vicenza, was later used for the church of St. Filippo Neri by Antonio Piovene. He was active in some of the reconstruction and expansions of Thiene Cathedral. He also worked in Verona, Padua, and Marostica. In his day, he was said to represent a ''rejuvenated Andrea Palladio, Palladio'', while by others, he was considered a plagiarist.F. Boni Sources * See also *Palladian architecture {{DEFAULTSORT:Calderari, Ottone 1730 births 1803 deaths Architects from Vicenza 18th-century Italian architects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 In Architecture
The year 1879 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * Autumn – Proposals to reconstruct the west front of St Mark's Basilica in Venice are criticised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain. Buildings and structures Buildings * The Linderhof Palace in Bavaria, designed by Georg Dollman is completed. * Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland opens on 2 October. * St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan) in New York City, designed by James Renwick, Jr., is dedicated. * The Votive Church, Vienna, Austria, designed by Heinrich von Ferstel, is dedicated. * Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Richard M. Upjohn, is completed. * Healy Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., designed by Paul J. Pelz and John L. Smithmeyer, is completed. * Provident Life & Trust Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Furness, is completed. Awards * Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. He fled first to Zürich and later to London. He returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries. Semper wrote extensively on the origins of architecture, especially in his book '' The Four Elements of Architecture'' (1851), and was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece. He designed works at all scales—from major urban interventions such as the redesign of the Ringstraße in Vienna, to a baton for Richard Wagner. His unrealised design for an opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Life Early life (to 1834) Semper was born into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 29
Events Pre-1600 * 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom. * 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan. * 903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeats the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama. *1114 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. Antioch, Mamistra, Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks. *1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins. 1601–1900 * 1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India. * 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. *1732 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 In Architecture
The year 1859 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * May 28 – All Saints, Margaret Street, London, designed by William Butterfield, is consecrated. * September 7 – " Big Ben" in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London completed by Sir Charles Barry to the designs of Augustus Pugin becomes fully operational. * October 18 – New chapel at Exeter College, Oxford, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is dedicated. * Red House in Bexleyheath, England designed by Philip Webb and William Morris. * The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, founded by Peter Cooper is born with the completion of The Foundation Building, designed by Prussian-born architect and civil engineer Fred A. Petersen. * Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, designed by William Strickland, is completed. * Third Vermont State House, designed by Thomas Silloway, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS HFRSE FRSA Doctor of Civil Law, DCL (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. Life Robert was born in Willington Quay near Wallsend, Northumberland, the son of George Stephenson and his wife, Frances Henderson. The family moved to Killingworth, where Robert was taught at the local village school. Robert attended the middle-class Percy Street Academy in Newcastle and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to the mining engineer Nicholas Wood. He left before he had completed his three years to help his father survey the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Robert spent six months at Edinburgh University before working for three years as a mining engineer in Colombia. When he returned his father was building t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 16
Events Pre-1600 * 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * 912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba. * 955 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. * 1311 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time. *1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. *1590 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover. 1601–1900 *1736 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth. *1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England. * 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles. *1793 – Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Architecture
The year 1865 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * George Gilbert Scott wins the competition to design the St Pancras railway station hotel and buildings in London. Buildings and structures Buildings completed * Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris, Scotland, built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, by David Bryce. In 2003 Amhuinnsuidhe Castle Estate purchases the castle (and its fishing rights). * Cefn Coed Viaduct, Wales, designed by Alexander Sutherland and Henry Conybeare. * Government House, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Benjamin Backhouse. * Bataclan theatre in Paris, designed by Charles Duval. * Iron-framed shipping warehouses at Saint-Ouen in Paris, designed by engineer Hippolyte Fontaine. * Crossness Pumping Station, serving the London sewage system, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. * Stowford and Magnolia Cottages, Stowford, Cheshire, England, designed by William Ede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
