The year 1863 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
January 10 – The Metropolitan Railway, London, England, is opened, the world's first underground railway (engineer: John Fowler). December 2 – The Statue of Freedom is set on top of the new dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.Gale, Robert L. Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1964, p. 190 date unknown The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris becomes independent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. William Burges is declared winner of the competition to design the new Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork (Church of Ireland), his first major commission.
Buildings and structures Buildings opened March 2 – Clapham Junction railway station, London. October 18 – Befreiungshalle memorial above Kelheim in Bavaria, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and completed by Leo von Klenze, is inaugurated. October 27 – Leeuwarden railway station in the Netherlands, designed by Charles van Brederode. December 13 – Gulen Church, Eivindvik, Norway, designed by Georg Andreas Bull, consecrated by Dean Thomas Erichsen.
Buildings completed Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden. Smíchov Synagogue, Prague, Czech Republic. Kelham Hall near Newark-on-Trent, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott.
Awards RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Anthony Salvin. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: .
Births April 3 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer (died 1957) May 17 – C. R. Ashbee, English interior designer (died 1942) October 21 – Sir George Troup, New Zealand architect, engineer and statesman (died 1941) December 16 – Ralph Adams Cram, American architect of academic and ecclesiastical buildings (died 1942) W. G. R. Sprague, Australian-born British theatre architect (died 1933)
Deaths June 16 – Ludwig Förster, Austrian religious architect (died 1797) September 17 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist and writer (born 1788) October 9 – Andrew Egan, Irish architect and builder (born c.1810) October 28 – William Cubitt, English building and civil engineering contractor and politician (born 1791) December 29 – Joseph John Scoles, English Catholic architect (born 1798)
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