1870 in architecture

Buildings • January 6 – The Musikverein in Vienna, designed by Theophil Hansen, is inaugurated. • May 1 – Equitable Life Building (New York City), designed by Arthur Gilman and Edward H. Kendall, with George B. Post as a consulting engineer, is completed. The 7-storey building is the first office block to incorporate passenger elevators, hydraulic examples by the Elisha Otis company. • June 23 – Keble College, Oxford, designed by William Butterfield, is opened. • August 9 – Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia is opened. • November – University of Glasgow new campus building, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is opened. • All Saints' Church, Cambridge, England, designed by George Frederick Bodley, is completed. • Perth Town Hall in Australia, designed by Richard Roach Jewell and James Manning, is completed. • David Sassoon Library in Bombay, designed by J. Campbell and G. E. Gosling, is completed. • Khotan Mosque in China is built. • Approximate date – Les Halles markets in Paris, designed by Victor Baltard, completed. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Benjamin Ferrey. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. ==Births==

• April 17 – Max Berg, German architect and urban planner (died 1947) • November 18 – P. Morley Horder, English architect (died 1944) • December 10 – Adolf Loos, Austrian-Czech Modernist architect (died 1933). • December 15 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (died 1965) ==Deaths==

• January 2 – Ignatius Bonomi, English architect and surveyor (born 1787) • February 15 – William Burn, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (born 1789) • March 24 – Ferdinand Stadler, Swiss architect (born 1813) • c. May – John Skipton Mulvany, Irish architect (born 1813) • October 8 – Félix Duban, French architect (born 1798) • December 28 – Philip Hardwick, English architect particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London (born 1792) ==References==