1834 in architecture

Events

• October 16 - Burning of Parliament: Much of the Palace of Westminster in London is destroyed by fire. Augustus Pugin is among the witnesses.
• The Institute of British Architects in London, predecessor of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is formed.
• First published scholarly description and drawings of a stave church, painter Johannes Flintoe's essay on Heddal Stave Church in Samlinger til det Norske Folks Sprog og Historie.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• August 30 - The Alexander Column, Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Auguste de Montferrand, is unveiled.
• October 7 - Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the start of the Music Festival, already delayed by a year because of lack of funds.

Buildings completed

• De Zwaluw, Hoogeveen, smock mill, Netherlands, built for Lucas Quirinus Robaard and Karsjen Meeuwes Steenbergen.
• Gurgi Mosque, Tripoli, Libya.
• Final reconstruction of the Presidential Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania, by Vasily Stasov.
• Reconstruction of the Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg in stone by Vasily Stasov.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul-Eugène Lequeux.

Births

• March 11 - E. W. Pugin, English ecclesiastical architect
• March 24 - William Morris, English artist, writer and conservationist
• April 5 - Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish architect
• April 7 - Alfred B. Mullett, English-born American architect
• May 23 - Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect
• August 2 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor
• Date unknown - Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer

Deaths

• September 2 - Thomas Telford, Scottish-born stonemason, architect and civil engineer
• September 5 - Thomas Lee, English architect