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1838 In Architecture
The year 1838 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London. Buildings completed * Palazzo Gavazzi, Milan, Italy, designed by Luigi Clerichetti. * Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada, built by Scottish architect Thomas McKay. * Walton Hall, Cheshire, England, designed for Sir Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baronet, possibly by Edmund Sharpe. * Chota Imambara, Lucknow. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Toussaint Uchard. Births * January 23 – John James Clark, Australian architect (died 1915) * April 13 – J. D. Sedding, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1891) * May 16 – Thomas Forrester, New Zealand plasterer, draughtsman, architect and engineer (died 1907) * September 18 – Thomas Drew, Irish ecclesiastical architect (died 1910) * Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 8
Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy. *1232 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty. *1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur. *1271 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers. 1601–1900 *1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. *1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated. * 1812 – Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucknow
Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division. Having a population of 2.8 million as per 2011 census, it is the eleventh most populous city and the twelfth-most populous urban agglomeration of India. Lucknow has always been a multicultural city that flourished as a North Indian cultural and artistic hub, and the seat of power of Nawabs in the 18th and 19th centuries. It continues to be an important centre of governance, administration, education, commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, culture, tourism, music and poetry. The city stands at an elevation of approximately above sea level. Lucknow city had an area of till December 2019, when 88 villages were added to the municipal limits and the area increased to . Bounded on the east by Barabanki, on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Architecture
The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture ''Ornament and Crime'' in Vienna. * April 27 – Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto ''Contro Venezia passatista'' ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco. * Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * January 22 – Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Fawcett and Ashworth. * February – Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England, designed by Edward Doran Webb. * May 11 – Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Paul Philippe Cret and Albert Kelsey. * June – Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan. * July 31 – Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota, designed by Ralph Russell Tinkham. * August 5 – Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Drew (architect)
Sir Thomas Drew (18 September 1838 – 13 March 1910) was an Anglo-Irish architect. Life Thomas Drew was born in Victoria Place, Belfast. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Drew and Isabella (née Dalton) Drew. He was one of four sons and eight daughters of the couple, although most of the children died young. His sister, Catharine Drew, was a journalist and writer. He was trained under Sir Charles Lanyon before moving to work in Dublin, where he became principal assistant to William George Murray. In 1865 he became the diocesan architect of the united dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore in 1865, and from then on Church architecture was Drew's principal activity. He was consulting architect for both St. Patrick's Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. He married Adelaide Anne, sister of William George Murray, in 1871. Among other projects, he was responsible for the design of the Ulster Bank on Dame Street, Rathmines Town Hall (completed 1899) and the Gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 18
Events Pre-1600 * 96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. * 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated. * 324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire. *1048 – Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army. *1066 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England. *1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen. * 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights. *1544 – The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 In Architecture
The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * January – Plans for St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers at Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member.Haslam, R.; Orbach., J.; Voelcker, A. (2009). ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales, Gwynedd''. Yale University Press. . The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009. * May 18 – The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid. * September 29 – The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid. * Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich. * City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted. * District plan for Highland Park, Texas, by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up. * Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forrester (architect)
Thomas Forrester (16 May 1838 – 25 March 1907) was a New Zealand plasterer, draughtsman, architect and engineer. He was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 16 May 1838. In 1865, he was the building superintendent at the New Zealand Exhibition in Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th .... References 1838 births 1907 deaths 19th-century New Zealand architects 20th-century New Zealand architects 19th-century New Zealand engineers 20th-century New Zealand engineers {{NewZealand-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 16
Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 – Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel. * 1426 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava.; Thursday, 10th waxing of Nayon 788 ME = 16 May 1426 * 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. * 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. *1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. * 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. 1601–1900 * 1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army. * 1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 In Architecture
The year 1891 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings * October 7 — Uris Library at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller, opens * Ludington Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, earliest surviving steel-framed building in the city, and the earliest entirely terracotta-clad skyscraper (8 storeys). * Manhattan Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, completed; world's earliest surviving steel-framed building to use a purely skeletal supporting structure. * Second Leiter Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. * Monadnock Building – Chicago, tallest masonry load-bearing wall building when built. * Sacred Heart Cathedral – Davenport, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan. * St. Ambrose Cathedral – Des Moines, Iowa, designed by James J. Egan. * San Sebastian Church (Manila). * Wainwright Building – St. Louis, Missouri, design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 13
Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai duels in Japanese history, Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island. *1613 – Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father. *1699 – The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa – the brotherhood of Warrior-Saintsby Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar. * 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland. * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. * 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In Architecture
The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * April – The ''Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition'', designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. * April 21 – Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal. * November 6 – Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen. Buildings completed * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet. * Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt. * Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California. * Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines. Awards * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Darling. * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held. Births * April 22 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004) * May 8 – Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013) * October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Clark
John James Clark (23 January 1838 – 25 June 1915), an Australian architect, was born in Liverpool, England. Clark's 30 years in public service, in combination with 33 in private practice, produced some of Australia's most notable public buildings, as well as at least one prominent building in New Zealand. Biography John James Clark, commonly referred to as JJ, was born in Liverpool, England on 23 January 1838 to parents George and Mary Clark. Clark was one of nine children. The family relocated from Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia in March 1852, in hopes of capitalising on the Victorian gold rush. Prior to leaving he had attended Collegiate College, Liverpool, where at thirteen he won first prize for drawing a finely detailed map of Liverpool - every street, all public buildings and docks, Whilst his father and older brother sought reward working in the gold fields, 14-year-old Clark pursued his interest in architecture and on the basis of his revealed abilities, was employed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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