Overview of the events of 1836 in architecture
The year 1836 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
The Inverness Castle , Scotland January – Charles Barry wins the competition for the design of a new Palace of Westminster in London in Gothic Revival style.
January 26 – Lansdowne Bridge in Lansdowne, New South Wales , Australia, designed by David Lennox , is opened.[ 1]
May 5 – St Ignatius Church, Preston , Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph John Scoles , is opened.[ 2]
July 29 – The Arc de Triomphe in Paris , completed by Jean Chalgrin following the death of Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury , is inaugurated.
October 4 – Rebuilt Christiania Theatre opens in Norway .
Fleetwood Customs House in England, designed by Decimus Burton , is completed.Mexican Hothouse in the Jardin des Plantes , Paris, by Charles Rohault de Fleury , is completed; an early example of French glass and metal architecture.
Glynnwood Plantation is built in Glynn, near Pointe Coupee, Louisiana .[ 3]
Inverness Castle , Scotland, designed by William Burn , is built.
Publications
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: François-Louis-Florimond Boulanger and Jean-Jacques Clerget.
Births
March 2 – E. R. Robson , English architect specialising in schools (died 1917 )
March 20 – James Cubitt , English architect specialising in nonconformist chapels (died 1912 )
Deaths
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