1822 in architecture explained

The year 1822 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Piazza del Popolo, Rome, by Giuseppe Valadier, completed.
• Saint David's Building, the original home of St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, by Charles Cockerell.
• Reconstruction and new prison buildings at Chester Castle, England, by Thomas Harrison.
• St Pancras New Church, London, by William and Henry William Inwood.
• Kalupur Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, British Raj.
• Assembly Rooms, Aberdeen, Scotland, by Archibald Simpson.
• Second Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, United States, by William Strickland.
• Main building of Government Palace (Finland) in Helsinki Senate Square, by Carl Ludvig Engel.
• Façade of Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, by Robert Reid.^[1]
• Reconstruction of Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England by John Nash.
• Yelagin Palace, Saint Petersburg, by Carlo Rossi.
• Cartland Bridge, Scotland, by Thomas Telford.^[2]
• Pont de pierre (Bordeaux), by Jean-Baptiste Billaudel and Claude Deschamps.^[3]
• Aban Palace, Kumasi, a project of Asantehene Osei Bonsu.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Émile Gilbert.

Births

• January 9 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (died 1896)
• April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died 1903)
• September 12 – Philip Charles Hardwick, English architect (died 1892)
• December 6 – David Stirling, Scottish-born Dominion architect for federal works in Nova Scotia (died 1887)
• December – Frank Wills, English-born architect working in North America (died 1857)

Deaths

• John Bowden, Irish ecclesiastical architect
• Luigi Rusca, Swiss architect working in Russia (born 1762)

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Edinburgh. Visions of Scotland. 2014-08-08. 2015-02-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm. dead.
2. Web site: Lanark, Lanark Road, Cartland Bridge. Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. 2014-08-09.
3. Web site: Pont de Pierre. Structurae. French. 2015-02-13.