Editing 1906 in architecture

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The year '''1906 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
[[File:LarkinAdministrationBuilding1906.jpg|thumb|[[Larkin Administration Building]] when new]]
* [[April 18]] – [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] destroys 80% of the city.
* Construction begins on
** New [[Great Mosque of Djenné]] in [[French Sudan]].
** [[Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough]], England, designed by [[Ninian Comper]].
** [[Benito Juárez Hemicycle]] in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Benjamin|first=Thomas|title=La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2010|page=<!-- not numbered -->|isbn=0-292-78297-7}}</ref>
** Waiting room at [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)]], designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]].
** [[Palace of Culture (Iași)|Palace of Administration, Iași]], Moldavia, designed by I. D. Berindei.
* [[Hampstead Garden Suburb]] established in north London with [[Raymond Unwin]] as architect.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1906}}
===Buildings opened===
* [[January 1]] – [[Mateer Memorial Church]], [[Trivandrum]], India.<ref>[http://www.mateermemorialchurch.com/ Mateer Memorial Church, Trivandrum.]</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Palace of the Argentine National Congress]], [[Buenos Aires]], designed by [[Vittorio Meano]] and completed by [[Julio Dormal]].

===Buildings completed===
[[File:K. C. DeRhodes House, May 2011.jpg|thumb|[[K. C. DeRhodes House]]]]
[[File:Casa Calvert.JPG|thumb|[[Casa Batlló]] in [[Barcelona]], Spain]]
* [[Larkin Administration Building]] for the Larkin Soap Company, [[Buffalo, New York]], and  [[Unity Temple]] in [[Oak Park, Illinois]], designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].
* Ferry Engineering Works, [[Queensferry, Flintshire|Queensferry, Wales]], designed by [[Harry Bulkeley Creswell]] and Hugh P. G. Maule.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)|first=Edward|last=Hubbard|title=The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire)|year=1986|isbn=978-0-300-09627-9}}</ref>
* [[Dunedin railway station]] in New Zealand, designed by [[George Troup (architect)|George Troup]].
* [[North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)|North Eastern Railway]] [[:File:North East Railway Company Offices - geograph.org.uk - 1211650.jpg|headquarters offices]] in [[York]] and London, designed by [[Horace Field]].
* [[Gresham Palace]] (insurance headquarters offices), [[Budapest]], designed by [[Zsigmond Quittner]] with József and László Vágó.
* [[K. C. DeRhodes House]], [[South Bend, Indiana]], designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
* [[Casa Batlló]] in [[Barcelona]], designed by [[Antoni Gaudí]].
* [[:File:Josep.Puig.i.Calafalch.Palau.del.Baro.Barcelona.jpg|Palau del Baró de Quadras]] in Barcelona, designed by [[Josep Puig i Cadafalch]].
* [[Weissenburger House]], designed by [[Lucien Weissenburger]] for himself at 1, boulevard Charles V in [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]], France.
* Stollwerckhaus, [[Cologne]], designed by [[Carl Moritz (architect)|Carl Moritz]].
* [[Ivan Vazov National Theatre|National Theatre]], [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]], designed by [[Fellner & Helmer]].
* [[City Hall, Cardiff]], Wales, designed by [[Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards]].
* Rotunda of [[National Library of Finland]] in [[Helsinki]], designed by Gustaf Nyström.
* [[Sofia Church]] in [[Stockholm]], designed by Gustaf Hermansson.

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: Patrice Bonnet.

==Publications==
* [[John Galsworthy]]'s novel ''The Man of Property'', first of ''[[The Forsyte Saga]]'', with the background of the building of an [[English country house]] for Soames Forsyte by young architect Philip Bosinney.

==Births==
* [[May 30]] – [[Maxwell M. Kalman]], Québécois architect (died [[2009 in architecture#Deaths|2009]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Carlo Scarpa]], Italian architect (died [[1978 in architecture#Deaths|1978]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Philip Johnson]], [[Americans|American]] architect (died [[2005 in architecture#Deaths|2005]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002161232_obit-philipjohnson26.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713130351/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002161232_obit-philipjohnson26.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-13 |first=Verena |last=Dobnik |title=Innovative, influential architect Philip Johnson dies at age 98 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=2005-01-26 |accessdate=2011-10-08 }}</ref>
* [[August 28]] – [[John Betjeman]], English poet and architectural writer (died [[1984 in architecture#Deaths|1984]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Alziro Bergonzo]], Italian architect and painter (died [[1997 in architecture#Deaths|1997]])
[[File:Charles Baillairgé.png|thumb|upright|[[Charles Baillairgé]]]]

==Deaths==
* [[February 1]] – [[J. P. Seddon]], English architect and designer (born [[1827 in architecture|1827]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Charles Baillairgé]], French-Canadian architect, land surveyor, civil engineer and author (born [[1826 in architecture|1826]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Stanford White]], American architect, partner in McKim, Mead & White (born [[1853 in architecture|1853]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Christian Christie]], Norwegian architect (born [[1832 in architecture|1832]])
* [[Charles Worley]], English architect

==References==
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