istoryworld
Events relating to architecture
The Crystal Palace is dismantled in Hyde Park, to be re-erected south of the river Thames at Sydenham
Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland
A 13-ton bell is installed above London's Houses of Parliament, soon giving its name (Big Ben) to both the clock and the clock-tower
British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership
Antoni Gaudí begins a life-long commitment to the building of a modern cathedral in Barcelona, El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia
English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform
A new theatre opens on the Green in Richmond, designed by a speciallist in theatre architecture, Frank Matcham
Charles Voysey completes a house for himself, The Orchard, at Chorley Wood in Hertfordshire
Frank Lloyd Wright designs low residential buildings, suitable for the plains around Chicago, and calls them Prairie Houses
Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
US architect Louis Sullivan completes the Schlesinger & Meyer Store (later known as the Carson, Pirie & Scott Store) in Chicago
The first part of the Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna is completed, to the designs of Otto Wagner
Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards
Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona
Frank Lloyd Wright builds a Unity Temple for the Unitarians in Oak Park, now a suburb of Chicago
20-year-old Le Corbusier builds his first house at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in his native Switzerland
Modernist architect Adolf Loos attacks architectural ornament in Ornament and Crime
The Liver Building, surmounted by two legendary Liver Birds, is completed in Liverpool
Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona
The Steiner House, designed by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, is completed in Vienna
Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin
Walter Gropius builds the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine in Germany
