1900 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• May 30 — Daniel Burnham's Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library and Soldiers and Sailors Monument are dedicated together in Kenosha, Wisconsin
• July 19 – The Paris Métro opens, with entrances designed by Hector Guimard in 1899.
• Antoni Gaudí begins work on the Parc Güell, which he works on for the next fourteen years.
• The Gare d'Orsay, the modern-day Musée d'Orsay, is built in Paris by Victor Laloux.
• The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower at the University of Birmingham, England, is completed.
• The Administration Building of Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, designed by physicist and University President Robert Stewart Hyer, is completed.
• The OXO Tower in London, England, is completed.
• The Co-Operative Wholesale Society warehouse, the modern-day Malmaison Hotel, on the Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, designed by T. G. Guerrite for Louis Gustave Mouchel on the principles of François Hennebique with F. E. L. Harris as CWS architect, is completed.
• The :File:3bis rue de la Salpétrière - Nancy -WP 20160920 038.jpg|Imprimerie Royer in Nancy, France, designed by Lucien Weissenburger, is completed.
• Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn, designed by Mikhail Preobrazhensky, is completed.
• Dohodno Zdanie, Rousse, Bulgaria.
• Villa Schutzenberger in Strasbourg, France, is completed.
• Kinloch Castle on the isle of Rùm, Scotland, designed by Leeming & Leeming, is completed.
• :File:MausoleumAtHarrisWithRumCullinsApr2006.jpg|Bullough Mausoleum on the isle of Rùm, Scotland, built.
• Victoria Theatre, Salford, England opens.
• The Orchard, Chorleywood, England, a house designed by C. F. A. Voysey for himself, is completed.

  Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul Bigot.

  Births

• February 6 – Paul László, Hungarian-born architect
• March 23 – Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect
• April 5 – Herbert Bayer, Austrian-born graphic designer
• May 28 – Arieh Sharon, Galician-born Israeli architect
• August 25 – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect
• October 8 – Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect
• November 3 – Guillermo Gonzalez Sanchez, Dominican architect

  Deaths

• February 20 – John Giles, English architect
• February 23 – William Butterfield, English ecclesiastical architect
• April 16 – Dankmar Adler, German American architect
• June 2 – Charles Barry, Jr., English architect
• August 18 – Edward Habershon, English ecclesiastical architect
• October 27 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect
• William White, English ecclesiastical architect