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{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Refimprove|date=December 2022}} {{Year nav topic5|1843|architecture}} The year '''1843 in architecture''' involved some significant events. ==Buildings and structures== ===Buildings=== [[File:Arts Building, McGill University, Aug 31 2022.jpg|thumb|[[McGill University]]]] * March 25 β The [[Thames Tunnel]] in [[London]], constructed by [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] and [[Marc Isambard Brunel]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burland |first1=J. B. |last2=Standing |first2=James R. |last3=Jardine |first3=F. M. |title=Building Response to Tunnelling: Case Studies from Construction of the Jubilee Line Extension, London |date=2001 |publisher=Thomas Telford |isbn=978-0-7277-3017-6 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgcHBtYPYy0C&pg=PA120 |language=en}}</ref> the oldest underwater tunnel in the world, opens to the public.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thames Tunnel (Plan and elevation of the Rotherhithe Tunnel - engineer Isambard Marc Brunel -annotated in ink) Opened 25 march 1843 {{!}} Royal Museums Greenwich |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-149873 |website=www.rmg.co.uk |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref> * [[Nelson's Column]] in [[London]], designed by [[William Railton]], is completed. * [[McGill University]]'s original building, later known as the Arts Building, is completed in [[Montreal]] by architect [[John Ostell]]. ==Awards== * [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Jacques-Martin TΓ©taz. ==Births== * July 6 β [[Robert S. Roeschlaub]], German-born architect working in Colorado (died [[1923 in architecture|1923]]) * November 29 β [[Gertrude Jekyll]], English garden designer (died [[1932 in architecture|1932]]) ==Deaths== * January 13 β [[Peter Atkinson (architect, born 1776)|Peter Atkinson]], English-born architect (born [[1776 in architecture|1776]]) ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1843 works|Architecture]] [[Category:Years in architecture]] [[Category:19th-century architecture]] {{Architecture-hist-stub}}
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