1854 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Pena National Palace in Sintra, Portugal, designed by Baron Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege.
• Church of St. Walburge, Preston, Lancashire, England, designed by Joseph Hansom.
• St George's Hall, Liverpool, England, completed by Charles Robert Cockerell to the design of Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.
• The Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected in commemoration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the United States.
• The Wellington Monument, overlooking Wellington, Somerset, England, erected to celebrate the Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo, completed by Henry Goodridge to the design of Thomas Lee.
• The Semper Gallery in Dresden, Germany, designed by Gottfried Semper.

  Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Philip Hardwick
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer.

  Publications

• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc begins publication of :s:fr:Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle|Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVe siècle

  Births

• February 2 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect
• April 18 – Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect
• July 31 – George Franklin Barber, American architect, best known for his residential designs sold by mail order
• September 20 – Ruggero Berlam, Italian architect
• October 2 – Patrick Geddes, Scottish urban theorist
• November – Edward Hudson, English architectural publisher and patron
• November 22 – Frank Matcham, English theatre architect

  Deaths

• March 3 – James Blackburn, English-born civil engineer, surveyor and architect, best known for his work in Australia