1852 in architecture

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The year 1852 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• February - Augustus Pugin suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a private asylum, Kensington House, London.
• June - Augustus Pugin is transferred to the Royal Bethlem Hospital.^[1]
• date unknown - Thomas M. Penson restores a house at 22 Eastgate Street, Chester, in black-and-white Revival style.^[2][3]

Buildings completed

King's Cross railway station.

British House of Commons.

• Amodt bro suspension bridge, Oslo, Norway.
• Helsinki Cathedral, Finland, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, completed.
• The House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the Palace of Westminster, London (England) designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.
• Teatro Comunale Alighieri in Ravenna, designed by Tommaso and Giambattista Meduna, is opened.
• London King's Cross railway station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, opened.^[4]
• Battle railway station, East Sussex (England), designed by William Tress, opened.
• Philippi Covered Bridge, West Virginia, USA.^[5]
• Siegestor (Victory Gate) in Munich, Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner, is completed by Eduard Mezger.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Leo von Klenze.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - P.R.L. Ginain.

Births

• June 25 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan Modernist architect (died 1926)^[6]
• July 4 - E. S. Prior, English Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (died 1932)

Deaths

• May 7 - James Savage, English architect (born 1779; buried in his St Luke's Church, Chelsea)
• May 8 - Giuseppe Jappelli, Italian neoclassical architect and engineer (born 1783)
• September 14 - Augustus Pugin, English architect, designer, artist and critic (born 1812; "convulsions followed by coma")

References

1. Hill, Rosemary, 2007, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, pp. 484–490.
2. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003). The Buildings of England: Cheshire. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-300-09588-0.
3. "No. 22 Eastgate Street and Row", Images of England, English Heritage, retrieved 2009-08-01
4. Jackson, Alan A. (1985). London's Termini. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8634-7.
5. Covered Bridges in West Virginia. Morgantown, West Virginia: Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archeology.
6. Massó, Juan Bergós (1974). Gaudí, l'home i la obra (in Catalan). Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. ISBN 84-600-6248-1. pp 17–18