British Architecture timeline
A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture
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The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London
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Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London
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Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London
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English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent
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Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'
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English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival
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Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight
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Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture
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Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin
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Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland
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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
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British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens
English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport