Editing 1870 in architecture

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The year '''1870 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1870}}
===Buildings===
[[File:LUniversité de Glasgow (3851676142).jpg|thumb|[[University of Glasgow]]]]
* [[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 [[elevator]]s, 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==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|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 in architecture|1947]])<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/library/00/0080/T008062.asp artnet biography]</ref>
* [[November 18]] – [[Percy Richard Morley Horder|P. Morley Horder]], English architect (died [[1944 in architecture|1944]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Adolf Loos]], Austrian-Czech Modernist architect (died [[1933 in architecture|1933]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx|title=Adolf Loos: Life and influence|access-date=20 June 2012|publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512170143/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx|archive-date=2013-05-12|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – [[Josef Hoffmann]], Austrian architect and designer (died [[1956 in architecture|1965]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Josef Hoffmann|url=http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18046353/|work=Collection|publisher=Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum|access-date=3 October 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Ferdinand Stadler.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ferdinand Stadler]]]]

==Deaths==
* [[January 2]] – [[Ignatius Bonomi]], English architect and surveyor (born [[1787 in architecture|1787]])
* [[February 15]] – [[William Burn]], pioneer of the [[Scottish Baronial style]] (born [[1789 in architecture|1789]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Ferdinand Stadler]], Swiss architect (born [[1813 in architecture|1813]])
* c. May – [[John Skipton Mulvany]], Irish architect (born [[1813 in architecture|1813]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Félix Duban]], French architect (born [[1798 in architecture|1798]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Félix Duban (1798-1870) - Author - Resources from the BnF |url=http://data.bnf.fr/12128000/felix_duban/ |website=data.bnf.fr |access-date=23 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] – [[Philip Hardwick]], English architect particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London (born [[1792 in architecture|1792]])

==References==
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