1885 in architecture

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The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Buildings
2 Awards
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References

Buildings

The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William LeBaron Jenney, is completed, often regarded as the world's first skyscraper.
Completion of 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.^[1]^[2]

Awards

Royal Gold Medal - Heinrich Schliemann.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

February 23 - Yoshikazu Uchida (d. 1972)
July 13 - Adolf Behne (d. 1948)
August 13 - C Howard Crane (d. 1952)
August 30 - Paul Gösch (d. 1940)
September 22 - Gunnar Asplund (d. 1940)
December 5 - Ernest Cormier (d. 1980)
December 17 - Wells Coates (d. 1958)
December 28 - Vladimir Tatlin (d. 1953)

Deaths

References

^ 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.