1884 in architecture
The year 1884 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Antoni Gaudí begins work on the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona.
- Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., designed by Robert Mills, is completed.
- Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, is opened.
- Budapest Keleti railway station, designed by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy, is completed.
- Garabit viaduct in France, engineered by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, is completed.
- The Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, is completed.
- Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty laid in New York Harbor.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Butterfield.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: :fr:Hector d'Espouy|Hector d'Espouy.
Births
- February 6 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and Cubist-influenced architect
- February 12 – Norman Jewson, English Arts and Crafts architect
- July 6 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch Modernist architect
- August 27 – Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician
- September 26 – Antonio Barluzzi, Italian Franciscan friar and architect, known as the "Architect of the Holy Land"
- November 24 – Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect
- Ernest George Trobridge, British architect
Deaths
