1903 in architecture
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The year 1903 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

  • The Amsterdam Stock Exchange
    Beurs van Berlage
    The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the center of Amsterdam. It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School...

     designed by Hendrik Berlage is opened.
  • Giles Gilbert Scott
    Giles Gilbert Scott
    Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM, FRIBA was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box....

     wins the competition to design Liverpool Cathedral
    Liverpool Cathedral
    Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James's Mount in Liverpool and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool but it is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin...

    .
  • Hill House in Helensburgh
    Helensburgh
    Helensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the eastern shore of the entrance to the Gareloch....

    , Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

    , designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design...

     is completed.

Events

  • The Group Plan for the civic center
    Downtown Cleveland
    Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in residential and commercial developments slated for the area over the next few years...

     of Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

    , by Daniel Burnham
    Daniel Burnham
    Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including Chicago and downtown Washington DC...

    , Arnold Brunner
    Arnold Brunner
    Arnold William Brunner was an American architect who was born and died in New York City. Brunner was educated in New York and in Manchester, England. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied under William R. Ware. Early in his career, he worked in the architectural...

    , and John Carrere is released.

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....

     - Charles Follen McKim
    Charles Follen McKim
    Charles Follen McKim FAIA was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White....

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

Births

  • June 17 - A. Hays Town
    A. Hays Town
    A. Hays Town was an American architect whose career spanned over sixty-five years. While Town designed commercial and governmental buildings in the style of modern architecture for the first forty years of his career, he became best known for his residential architecture, which was heavily...

     (died 2005
    2005 in architecture
    The year 2005 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*March 5 - The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart designed by Hascher et Jehle opens.*April 6 - New facility for the Milan Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, opens....

    )
  • July 18 - Victor Gruen
    Victor Gruen
    Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum , was an Austrian-born commercial architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States.- Biography :...

     (died 1980
    1980 in architecture
    The year 1980 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Hopewell Centre in Hong Kong, China is completed.* The Tallinn TV Tower in Tallinn, Estonia is completed for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow....

    )
  • October 18 - Albert Frey (died 1998
    1998 in architecture
    The year 1998 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, designed by Marnell Corrao Associates.* Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong, designed by Norman Foster....

    )
  • October 24 - Charlotte Perriand
    Charlotte Perriand
    Charlotte Perriand , was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society...

     (died 1999
    1999 in architecture
    The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed.* Great Court of the British Museum is redesigned by Norman Foster....

    )

Deaths

  • August 28 - Frederick Law Olmsted
    Frederick Law Olmsted
    Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

     (born 1822
    1822 in architecture
    The year 1822 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* St David's College in Lampeter, Wales, designed by Charles Cockerell, is completed.* Reconstruction of Chester Castle under Thomas Harrison is completed.-Births:...

    )
  • Louis-Daniel Perrier
    Louis-Daniel Perrier
    Louis-Daniel Perrier was a Swiss architect from Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was born in Paris although he was originally from the towns of Sainte-Croix and Orges in Switzerland. He studied art in Paris and Berlin before moving to Neuchâtel in 1848....

     (born 1818)
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