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The year 1832 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • January – Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland (demolished 2006)

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada]]

thumb|[[Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano]]

  • Church of Our Saviour, Qaqortoq, Greenland.
  • Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, England, designed by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor.
  • Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England, designed by Thomas Rickman.
  • Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
  • Replacement Old City Gaol, Bristol, England, designed by Richard Shackleton Pope.
  • Osgoode Hall, Toronto for The Law Society of Upper Canada, designed by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin.
  • Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland, designed by Albert E. Murray.
  • Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar.
  • Hill's Academy, Essex, Connecticut.
  • Maderup Mølle, Funen, Denmark (now in The Funen Village)
  • Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
  • The Mount, Sheffield, England (residential terrace), designed by William Flockton.
  • Staines Bridge (across the River Thames in England), designed by George Rennie.
  • Marlow Bridge (suspension, across the River Thames in England), designed by William Tierney Clark.
  • Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano (suspension, in the Kingdom of Naples), designed by Luigi Giura.
  • George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Hamilton.
  • Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, completed after the death in July of its designer John Shaw, Sr. by his son, John Shaw, Jr.
  • Stirling New Bridge in Scotland, designed by Robert Stevenson, completed.

Awards

  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Arnoud Léveil.

Births

  • March 23 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect (died 1900)
  • March 29 – William Swinden Barber, English architect (died 1908)
  • September 25 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (died 1907)
  • October 10 – Henry Hunter, English-born architect working in Tasmania (died 1892)
  • December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (died 1923)
  • December 22 – Henry Augustus Sims, American architect working in Philadelphia (died 1875)
  • date unknown – Frederick Thomas Pilkington, English-born architect working in Scotland (died 1898)

Deaths

  • June 4 – William Heste, Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent
  • July 30 – John Shaw, Sr., English architect (born 1776)
  • September 22 – William Fowler, English architect and engraver (born 1761)
  • November 19 – John Paterson, Scottish architect
  • December 19 – Augustus Charles Pugin, French-born English architectural draughtsman (born 1762)

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