1823 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by Robert Smirke.
• Work begins on the Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, which is completed in 1830.
• Work completed on St George's Church, Brandon Hill in Bristol, England, designed by Robert Smirke in Greek Revival style.
• Work completed on the Primary Cathedral of Bogotá, Colombia.
• Work completed on the Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg designed by Andreyan Zakharov in 1806.
• Work completed on the core of Massachusetts General Hospital, Bulfinch Building, designed by Charles Bulfinch.
• Opening of Horton Road Hospital as the First Gloucestershire County Asylum in England, designed by William Stark, John Wheeler and John Collingwood.
• William Strickland builds St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, United States, one of the first Gothic Revival buildings.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Félix Duban.

Births

• March 8 – Thomas Fuller, Canadian architect
• July 7 – Francis Fowke, Anglo-Irish architect and military engineer
• July 23 – Edwin May, American architect working in Indianapolis
• August 18 – John Thomas Emmett, English architect
• September 21 – Charles Barry, Jr., English architect

Deaths

• June 16 – Archibald Elliot, Scottish architect
• August 16 – Louis-Martin Berthault, French architect
• Edward Holl, English architect to the Navy Board