1894 in architecture

The year 1894 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

 * In the United States, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
 * Anatole de Baudot designs the church of Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre in Paris as the first to use a reinforced concrete frame.

Buildings opened

 * April 21 – Quatro de Setembro Theater, Teresina, Brazil.
 * May 14 – Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England, completed to a design by Maxwell and Tuke and opened to the public.
 * June 30 – Tower Bridge in London, designed by Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe-Barry.
 * July
 * Dalen Hotel in Norway, designed by Haldor Børve.
 * Palais Galliera in Paris, designed by Léon Ginain.
 * October 16 – Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, designed by Fellner & Helmer.

Buildings completed

 * Kapelle der Versöhnung, Berlin, Germany.
 * Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal, Canada.
 * Reformed Church, Dresden, designed by Harald Julius von Bosse (demolished 1963).
 * Ringkirche, Wiesbaden, designed by Johannes Otzen.
 * Sacred Heart Church (Kőszeg, Hungary), designed by Ludwig Schöne.
 * St. Peter's Church, Jaffa.
 * Colegio de Santa Maria de Jesús in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí.
 * Columbus Hall (school and theater) in Orange, NJ designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke.
 * Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
 * Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia.
 * Reichstag in Berlin, designed by Paul Wallot.
 * Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, designed by Jean-Jacques Winders and Frans Van Dijk.
 * Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, designed by Louis Sullivan.
 * Hôtel Tassel (town house), Brussels, designed by Victor Horta.
 * Hurlbut Memorial Gate, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
 * Lululaund, a house for Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey, England, based on a design by Henry Hobson Richardson (d. 1886) (demolished 1939).
 * Rebuilt Köln Hauptbahnhof railway station in Cologne, Germany, designed by E. Grüttefie (engineer) and Georg Frentzen (architect).
 * Negril Lighthouse, Jamaica.
 * De Arend, Coevorden (smock mill), Netherlands.

Awards

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frederic Leighton.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred-Henri Recoura.

Births

 * February 18 – Paul Williams, California-based architect (died 1980)

Deaths

 * April 11 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and architectural theorist (born 1832)
 * June 27 – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1834)
 * August 15 – Arthur Rotch, Boston-based architect (born 1850)
 * September 16 – Eduard Mezger, Bavarian architect, painter, professor and high civil officer of the royal buildings administration (born 1807)
 * December 16 – Alexandru Orăscu, Romanian Neoclassicist architect (born 1817)