1834 in architecture

• October 16 – Burning of Parliament: Much of the Palace of Westminster in London is destroyed by fire. Augustus Pugin is among the witnesses. • The Institute of British Architects in London, predecessor of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is formed. • First published scholarly description and drawings of a stave church, painter Johannes Flintoe's essay on Heddal Stave Church in Samlinger til det Norske Folks Sprog og Historie (Christiania). ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • August 30 – The Alexander Column, Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Auguste de Montferrand, is unveiled. • October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the start of the Music Festival, already delayed by a year because of lack of funds. Buildings completed • De Zwaluw, Hoogeveen, smock mill, Netherlands, built for Lucas Quirinus Robaard and Karsjen Meeuwes Steenbergen. • Gurgi Mosque, Tripoli, Libya. • Final reconstruction of the Presidential Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania, by Vasily Stasov. • Reconstruction of the Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg in stone by Vasily Stasov. == Awards ==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Paul-Eugène Lequeux. == Births ==

• March 11 – E. W. Pugin, English ecclesiastical architect (d. 1875) • March 24 – William Morris, English artist, writer and conservationist (d. 1896) • April 5 – Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish architect (d. 1921) • April 7 – Alfred B. Mullett, English-born American architect (d. 1890) • May 23 – Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis, Latvian architect (d. 1891) • August 2 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904) • Date unknown – Giorgio Costantino Schinas, Maltese architect and civil engineer (d. 1894) == Deaths ==

• September 2 – Thomas Telford, Scottish-born stonemason, architect and civil engineer (b. 1757) • September 5 – Thomas Lee, English architect (b. 1794) == References ==