The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings opened
July 13 – New building for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam , designed by Pierre Cuypers .[2]
November 30 – London Pavilion variety theatre, designed by Robert Worley and James Ebenezer Saunders .
December 27 – Church of St. Peter, Leipzig , designed by August Hartel and Constantin Lipsius .
Castle Hotel, Conwy , Wales .[3]
Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Busovača , Bosnia-Herzegovina.[4]
Vestermarie Church , Bornholm, Denmark.
Metropole Hotel, London , designed by Francis Fowler and James Ebenezer Saunders.
Buildings completed
The Academy of Athens , Greece
Autumn – The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois , designed by William Le Baron Jenney . With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper .[5]
Academy of Athens (Greece), designed by Theophil Hansen in 1859 .
Holloway Sanatorium near Virginia Water in England, designed by William Henry Crossland .
Sway Tower in Hampshire , England, designed by Andrew Peterson using concrete made with Portland cement . It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.[6] [7]
House for Kate Greenaway , Frognal , London, designed by Richard Norman Shaw .
Elmside (house), Grange Road, Cambridge , England, designed by Edward Prior .
Rebuilt Framingham Railroad Station in Framingham, Massachusetts , designed by H. H. Richardson .
February 23 – Yoshikazu Uchida , Japanese architect and structural engineer (died 1972 )
July 13 – Adolf Behne , German art historian, architectural writer and leader of the Avant Garde movement (died 1948 )
July 15 – Josef Frank , Austrian-born architect and designer (died 1967 )
July 29 – Sigurd Lewerentz , Swedish architect and furniture designer (died 1975 )
August 13 – Charles Howard Crane , American architect (died 1952 )
August 30 – Paul Gösch , German Expressionist artist, architect, lithographer and designer (died 1940 )[8] [9]
September 22 – Gunnar Asplund , Swedish "Nordic Classicist" architect (died 1940 )
December 5 – Ernest Cormier , Canadian engineer and architect (died 1980 )
December 17 – Wells Coates , Canadian architect, designer and writer (died 1958 )
December 28 – Vladimir Tatlin , Russian painter and architect (died 1953 )[10]
February 1 – Henri Dupuy de Lôme , French naval architect (born 1816 )
March 9 – Matthew Ellison Hadfield , English Victorian Gothic architect (born 1812 )
May 22 – Théodore Ballu , French architect of public buildings (born 1817 )
May 28 – Horace King , US architect, engineer, and bridge builder.[11]
June 14 – William Tinsley , US-based Irish architect (born 1804 )
August 1 – Thomas Leverton Donaldson , British architect, co-founder and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects[12]
August 24 – Eduard Riedel , German architect and Bavarian government building officer (born 1813 )
September 2 – Giuseppe Bonavia , Maltese architect (born 1821 )
November 16 – Frederick Ernst Ruffini , US architect (born 1851 )
James, J. (1997). All about Sway Tower . Lymington: Lymington Museum Trust.
Trout, Edwin (October 2002). "Sway Tower: an early example of high-rise concrete construction". Concrete : 64–5.
Pehnt, Wolfgang (1973). Expressionist Architecture . Westport, CT: Praeger.
Selz, Peter (1957). German Expressionist Painting . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lynton, Norbert (2009). Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution . New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-300-11130-9 .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 10 Feb 2014.