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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>Construction work begins on <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cathedral_Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Rosary/9UnTMIDI">Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary</a>, <a href="/facts/Rosario/snrNk7fq">Rosario</a>, Argentina.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Provinciaal_Hof/EBnmh0Tz">Provinciaal Hof</a>, <a href="/facts/Bruges/VofsF5GR">Bruges</a>, Flanders, designed by <a href="/facts/Louis_Delacenserie/SeAdjFnl">Louis Delacenserie</a> and René Buyck.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n_Hotel/s7p3MamJ">Ponce de León Hotel</a>, <a href="/facts/St._Augustine,_Florida/P7zQfBjL">St. Augustine, Florida</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Carr%C3%A8re_and_Hastings/Vhc7e29y">Carrère and Hastings</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1887</p> <h3>Buildings opened</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_29/LJzA7vDp">March 29</a> – <a href="/facts/Peebles_Old_Parish_Church/Gkp1oSVz">Peebles Old Parish Church</a>, <a href="/facts/Scotland/VGwbbxB2">Scotland</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/William_Young_(architect)/SvoC5mkT">William Young</a> (dedicated).</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_23/VCyKHdkg">April 23</a> – <a href="/facts/Metropolitan_Cathedral,_Ia%C8%99i/h5sbL4eh">Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași</a>, Romania, completed by <a href="/facts/Alexandru_Or%C4%83scu/y3SPLvDb">Alexandru Orăscu</a> (dedicated).</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_20/k8thsbu0">June 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Victoria_Terminus/6PzA9B8b">Victoria Terminus</a> of the <a href="/facts/Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway/d0481DPy">Great Indian Peninsula Railway</a> in <a href="/facts/Bombay/BdoEc10R">Bombay</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Frederick_William_Stevens/HNasmLdb">Frederick William Stevens</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/December_1/2AJh8lYG">December 1</a> – <a href="/facts/Raffles_Hotel/7pBjrXcQ">Raffles Hotel</a>, <a href="/facts/Singapore/CQDkhUvD">Singapore</a>.</li></ul> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cardiff_Metropolitan_Cathedral/rywto7kK">Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Pugin_%26_Pugin/rftGHGT2">Pugin & Pugin</a>.</li> <li>New façade of <a href="/facts/Florence_Cathedral/vksrvTd3">Florence Cathedral</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Emilio_De_Fabris/bVrXBo5C">Emilio De Fabris</a> (died <a href="/facts/1883_in_architecture/xspmXPra">1883</a>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Basilica_of_St._Nicholas,_Amsterdam/l2BnlxVe">Basilica of St. Nicholas, Amsterdam</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Adrianus_Bleijs/n24UrulT">Adrianus Bleijs</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Aarhus/mjXaRtJ3">St Paul's Church, Aarhus</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Vilhelm_Theodor_Walther/mYWbHlqf">Vilhelm Theodor Walther</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cluj-Napoca_Neolog_Synagogue/sdUUTogJ">Cluj-Napoca Neolog Synagogue</a>, Romania, designed by engineer Izidor Hegner.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Eldridge_Street_Synagogue/40Loyr9J">Eldridge Street Synagogue</a>, New York City, designed by Peter and Francis William Herter.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sacred_Heart_Cathedral,_Sarajevo/z84cfBGy">Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Josip_Vanca%C5%A1/rm8RYzsA">Josip Vancaš</a>.</li> <li>Rebuilt <a href="/facts/Gare_Saint-Lazare/yjCvCygA">Gare Saint-Lazare</a> terminus of Chemins de fer de l'Ouest in Paris, designed by <a href="/facts/Juste_Lisch/M9a4Jhtu">Juste Lisch</a>.</li> <li>Clock tower of <a href="/facts/Rochdale_Town_Hall/CGkL8yDy">Rochdale Town Hall</a> in England, designed by <a href="/facts/Alfred_Waterhouse/89RX9Hso">Alfred Waterhouse</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">RIBA</a> <a href="/facts/Royal_Gold_Medal/xhPS9zJU">Royal Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/Ewan_Christian/oRWKSuQ8">Ewan Christian</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/MacGibbon_and_Ross/zMUrkRHV">MacGibbon and Ross</a> begin publication of <i>The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century</i>.</li> <li>G. A. Wayss publishes <i>Das System Monier-Eisengerippe mit Cementumhüllung-in seiner Anwendung auf das gesammte Bauwesen</i> in Berlin, one of the first books on <a href="/facts/Reinforced_concrete/aUTUKAQF">reinforced concrete</a> (using <a href="/facts/Joseph_Monier/vF6bHcr0">Joseph Monier</a>'s system).</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_21/5h4oCUn7">March 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Erich_Mendelsohn/pkpw4pMP">Erich Mendelsohn</a>, German-Jewish Expressionist architect (died <a href="/facts/1953_in_architecture/ISxq130m">1953</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/May_10/BkQqYRkX">May 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Herbert_James_Rowse/47xEMlEE">Herbert James Rowse</a>, English architect noted for work in Liverpool (died <a href="/facts/1963_in_architecture/4TKdbIBH">1963</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_31/GKIS7DQr">May 31</a> – <a href="/facts/Philip_Tilden/TMEdPIS7">Philip Tilden</a>, English domestic architect (died <a href="/facts/1956_in_architecture/bD6jGLak">1956</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_15/Gv1phhWL">June 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Oliver_Hill_(architect)/BWzvLoGS">Oliver Hill</a>, English architect (died <a href="/facts/1968_in_architecture/lwYqfhm9">1968</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_30/MwxqAhmK">August 30</a> – <a href="/facts/Eric_Francis_(architect)/yfacszp4">Eric Francis</a>, British architect and painter (died <a href="/facts/1976_in_architecture/IBxXKuF4">1976</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_6/kEsfCLXn">October 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Le_Corbusier/uVvg2nGU">Le Corbusier</a> (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and pioneer of modern architecture (died <a href="/facts/1965_in_architecture/CCmFoEbh">1965</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/April_13/DI6WefJX">April 13</a> – <a href="/facts/David_Stirling_(architect)/Az9z2Qol">David Stirling</a>, Scottish-born Canadian architect (born <a href="/facts/1822_in_architecture/V9oKHKCX">1822</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/May_8/PEe2X6Xh">May 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Stevenson/cFr8YgYu">Thomas Stevenson</a>, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born <a href="/facts/1818_in_architecture/oojlQBvp">1818</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_21/7eCgCTWG">May 21</a> – Sir <a href="/facts/Horace_Jones_(architect)/XLSDjwP1">Horace Jones</a>, English architect (born <a href="/facts/1819_in_architecture/Wr6ga8M8">1819</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_16/W7hpMxEU">August 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Webster_Paulson/vhsrtWe7">Webster Paulson</a>, English civil engineer (born <a href="/facts/1837_in_architecture/cpEy3Q57">1837</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Advisory Body Evaluation: Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (India)" (PDF). UNESCO – World heritage – documents associated with listing. UNESCO. 2004. Retrieved 2008-12-03. <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/945rev.pdf" target="_blank">https://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/945rev.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Erich Mendelsohn". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved January 15, 2012. <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/374782/Erich-Mendelsohn" target="_blank">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/374782/Erich-Mendelsohn</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"1887 in architecture". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016. <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5853" target="_blank">http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5853</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>