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1915 in architecture

The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures
Buildings opened • April – The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. • April 21Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal. • November 6Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen. Buildings completedPrince 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==
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold MedalFrank Darling. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held. ==Births==
Births
April 22Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004) • May 8Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013) • October 4Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957) • December 12Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010) • December 31George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975) • Naoum Shebib, Egyptian architect (died 1985) ==Deaths==
Deaths
February 17George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854) • April 17Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831) • May 28Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840) • June 25John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838) • July 11Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846) ==References==
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