1898 in architecture
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The year 1898 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

  • St. Paul Building
    St. Paul Building
    The St. Paul Building was a skyscraper in New York City built in 1898 to designs by George B. Post that repeated the same Ionic order for each floor, to little cumulative effect. At 315 feet it was one of the tallest skyscrapers of its era. The building was 26 stories tall...

     in New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

     is completed and is one of the tallest buildings in the world.
  • The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

     is completed.

Events

  • To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform is published by Ebenezer Howard
    Ebenezer Howard
    Sir Ebenezer Howard is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow , the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature. The publication resulted in the founding of the garden city movement, that realized several Garden Cities in Great Britain at the...

    , calling for the creation of garden cities
    Garden city movement
    The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts" , containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and...

    .

Awards

  • Royal Gold Medal
    Royal Gold Medal
    The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture....

     - George Aitchison
    George Aitchison
    George Aitchison Jr. was a British architect.He was the son of George Aitchison . He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and University College London....

    .
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

  • February 3 - Alvar Aalto
    Alvar Aalto
    Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...

     (died 1976
    1976 in architecture
    The year 1976 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada completed.* John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by I. M...

    )
  • February 19 - Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry...

     (died 1990
    1990 in architecture
    The year 1990 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*Atatürk Dam in Turkey is completed*Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, designed by I. M. Pei, is completed.*U.S...

    )
  • September 20 - Elisabeth Scott
    Elisabeth Scott
    Elisabeth Whitworth Scott was a British architect who designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. This was the first important public building in Britain to be designed by a female architect....

     (died 1972
    1972 in architecture
    The year 1972 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the tallest in the world at the time, in Lower Manhattan, New York...

    )
  • October 4 - J. H. van den Broek (died 1978
    1978 in architecture
    The year 1978 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Gehry House by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, California.* Sunshine 60 in Tokyo, Japan is completed.* Reunion Tower in Dallas, Texas is completed....

    )

Deaths

  • August 3 - Charles Garnier
    Charles Garnier (architect)
    Charles Garnier was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.-Early life:...

     (born 1825
    1825 in architecture
    The year 1825 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The front and rear porticoes of The White House are added to the building.* Tuskulėnai Manor in Vilnius by Karol Podczaszyński completed-Births:...

    )
  • September 28 - Thomas Fuller
    Thomas Fuller (architect)
    Thomas Fuller was a Canadian architect.He was born in Bath, Somerset , where he trained as an architect. Living in Bath and London he did a number of projects. In 1845 he left for Antigua, where he spent two years working on a new cathedral before emigrating to Canada in 1857...

     (born 1823
    1823 in architecture
    The year 1823 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by Robert Smirke ....

    )
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