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The year 1850 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

  • November 1 – Foundation stone laid for church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, designed by William Butterfield. supervised by Beresford Hope for the Cambridge Camden Society as a model of the High Victorian Gothic ecclesiological style.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Sainte-Geneviève Library reading room]]

  • Bratsberg Church, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Hillsgrove Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Britannia Bridge in North Wales, engineered by Robert Stephenson, is opened.
  • Newcastle railway station in the north-east of England, designed by John Dobson, is opened.
  • Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste, is completed, the first major public building with an exposed cast-iron frame.
  • Château de Boursault, France, designed by Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin.
  • Peckforton Castle, England, designed by Anthony Salvin.
  • Vĩnh Tràng Temple, Mỹ Tho, Vietnam.

Awards

  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Victor Louvet
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Barry

Births

  • January 10 – John Wellborn Root, Chicago-based US architect (died 1891)
  • February 17 – Frank Darling, Canadian architect associated with Toronto (died 1923)
  • November 15 – Victor Laloux, French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher (died 1937)
  • December 21 – Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Spanish-Catalan architect, a leader of Modernisme català, the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement (died 1927)
  • Robert Worley, English architect (died 1930)

thumb|upright|[[Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny]]

Deaths

  • February 19 – François Debret, French architect (born 1777)
  • March 2 – Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny, French architect influential in Brazil (born 1776)
  • May 8 – Antonio Niccolini, Italian architect, scenic designer, and engraver (born 1772)
  • July 12 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1772)
  • September 5 — John Holden Greene, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (born 1777)

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