1884 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Antoni Gaudí becomes architect for the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona.
• Gustav Adolf Church, Liverpool, England, designed by W. D. Caröe, is completed.
• Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., designed by Robert Mills, is completed.
• Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest, designed by Miklós Ybl, is opened.
• Budapest Keleti railway station, designed by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy, is completed.
• Garabit viaduct in France, engineered by Gustave Eiffel and Maurice Koechlin, is completed.
• The Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, is completed.
• Cornerstone of Statue of Liberty laid in New York Harbor.

Publications

• Frederic Growse – ''Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural''

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Butterfield.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Hector d'Espouy.

Births

• February 6 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and Cubist-influenced architect
• February 12 – Norman Jewson, English Arts and Crafts architect
• July 6 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch Modernist architect
• August 27 – Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan soldier, architect and politician
• September 26 – Antonio Barluzzi, Italian Franciscan friar and architect, known as the "Architect of the Holy Land"
• November 24 – Michel de Klerk, Dutch Amsterdam School architect
• Ernest George Trobridge, British architect

Deaths

• January 8 – Eugenius Birch, English naval architect, engineer and noted pier builder
• February 10 – Richard Shackleton Pope, English architect working in Bristol
• March 26 – Edward Milner, English landscape architect
• July 27 – Frigyes Feszl, Hungarian architect, a significant figure in the romantic movement
• August 3 – Paul Abadie, French architect and building restorer
• October 19 – Major Rohde Hawkins, English school and church architect