1912 in architecture

• Clough Williams-Ellis receives his first major architectural commission, for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall in Wales. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened in Moscow, Russia • Electric Tower, in Buffalo, New York, designed by Esenwein & Johnson • April 19 – Bridges in Constantine, Algeria: • Sidi M'Cid Bridge, designed by Ferdinand Arnodin. • Sidi Rached Bridge, designed by Paul Séjourné. • April 25 – Rebuilt St Mark's Campanile in Venice inaugurated. • May – Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts opens in Moscow, Russia. • June – Government Conference Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (opened by the Grand Trunk Railway as Ottawa's railway station) • October 12 – Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight (England), designed by Dom Paul Bellot, consecrated. • December 26 – Opening of: • Manchester Opera House, in Manchester, England, as the New Theatre, designed by Richardson & Gill with Farquarson. • St. James Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, designed by Henry Eli White. Buildings completed , Bulgaria • Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria. • Mysore Palace, India, designed by Henry Irwin. • El Centro Español de Tampa, Florida, USA. • Mawson's Huts, Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, Australian Antarctic Territory • Šaloun's Villa in Prague, designed by and for sculptor Ladislav Šaloun. • The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent, England, designed by Edwin Lutyens with garden by Gertrude Jekyll. • Sons of Norway Hall, Petersburg, Alaska, USA. • Glamorgan County Hall, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Vincent Harris and T. A. Moodie. • Chengyang Bridge, China. • Jackson Tower in Portland, Oregon • The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts • Sun Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Ritz-Carlton Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ==Awards==

• Olympic gold medal – Eugène Monod & Alphone Laverrière of Switzerland for Building plan of a modern stadium. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Basil Champneys. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jacques Debat-Ponsan. ==Births==

• January 9 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect associated with the Festival of Britain (died 1996) • January 30 – Finn Juhl, Danish architect, interior and industrial designer (died 1989) • February 21 – Henry Bernard, French architect, designer of the Palace of Europe (died 1994) • March 12 – Gordon Tait, British architect (died 1999) • June 11 – Rosemary Stjernstedt, British architect (died 1998) • June 30 – María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, Mexican architect (died 2009) • December 1 – Minoru Yamasaki, American World Trade Center architect (died 1986) • December 15 – Ray Eames, American industrial designer, 2nd wife of Charles Eames (died 1988) ==Deaths==

• February 8 – Constant-Désiré Despradelle, French architect and professor of architecture (born 1862) • June 1 – Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban planner (born 1846) • June 27 – Frank Furness, Philadelphia-based American architect (born 1839) • November 17 – Richard Norman Shaw, British architect (born 1831) ==References==