See also:1875 in architecture, other events of 1876, 1877 in architecture and the architecture timeline. See also: 1874 in architecture, other events of 1875, 1876 in architecture and the architecture timeline. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... See also: 1876 in architecture, other events of 1877, 1878 in architecture and the architecture timeline. ... This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages. ...
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) is an opera house built to the north of the town of Bayreuth in Germany, dedicated to the performance of Richard Wagners operas. ... Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. ... Government House, Melbourne Government House, Melbourne is the office and official residence of the Governor of Victoria. ... Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... English born William Wilkinson Wardell (1823-99) arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1858. ...
November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin, in Sydney in 1930 Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 - February 11, 1937) is an American architect and landscape architect best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australias capital city. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Architectural details include eyebrow arched pediments over tall, beautifully proportioned windows symmetrically placed and accented with iron railings, stone balusters, arched arcades, balconies, cupolas and statuary.
Architectural elements include vaulted ceilings, tracery in plaster and stone, intricately carved doorways and friezes.
Architectural details include the dog-run layout, wood walls, stone fireplaces, wood porches with steps, dry-stacked rock walls and staggered wood rail fences.
Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
Sir Banister Fletcher wrote in A History of Architecture, "The interior of the building is dimly lit through pierced marble lattices and contains a virtuoso display of carved marble.
"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
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