1836 in architecture
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The year 1836 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- January â Charles Barry wins the competition for the design of a new Palace of Westminster in London in Gothic Revival style.
- January 26 â Lansdowne Bridge in Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia, designed by David Lennox, is opened.[1]
- May 5 â St Ignatius Church, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph John Scoles, is opened.[2]
- July 29 â The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, completed by Jean-François Chalgrin following the death of Louis-Ãtienne Héricart de Thury, is inaugurated.
- October 4 â 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
- August 4 â A. W. N. Pugin publishes his Contrasts, a treatise on the morality of Catholic Gothic architecture.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François-Louis-Florimond Boulanger and Jean-Jacques Clerget.
Births
- March 2 â E. R. Robson, English architect specialising in schools (died 1917)
- March 20 â James Cubitt, English architect specialising in nonconformist chapels (died 1912)
Deaths
- June 7 â Henry A. Baker, Irish architect (born 1753)
