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Overview of the events of 1908 in architecture
The year 1908 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
- The
Charles Sumner Greene
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- British Medical Association Building, London, designed by Charles Holden with sculptures by Jacob Epstein, is completed.[2]
- St. Andrew's United Church in Cairo, Egypt.
- St. Patrick's Church, Toronto, Canada, designed by Arthur W. Holmes.
- Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend, Belgium, designed by Louis Delacenserie.
- Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, United States, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Old Colony Club on Madison Avenue in New York City, designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White.[3]
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 2 – Alexander Davidson, Scottish architect active in Australia, 68
- February 3 – Ferdinand Meldahl, Danish architect best known for the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Palace, 80
- February 13 – Sir James Knowles, English architect and editor, 76
- September 15 – Friedrich Adler, German architect and archaeologist, 80
- November 26 – William Swinden Barber, English architect, 76
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