1915 in architecture

Buildings opened • April – The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. • April 21 – Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal. • November 6 – Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen. Buildings completed • Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet. • Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt. • Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California. • Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Darling. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held. ==Births==

• April 22 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004) • May 8 – Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013) • October 4 – Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957) • December 12 – Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010) • December 31 – George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975) • Naoum Shebib, Egyptian architect (died 1985) ==Deaths==

• February 17 – George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854) • April 17 – Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831) • May 28 – Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840) • June 25 – John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838) • July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846) ==References==