The year 1885 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William Le Baron Jenney, is completed. With ten floors and a fireproof weight-bearing metal frame, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.^[1]
• Completion of Sway Tower in Hampshire, England, designed by Andrew Peterson using concrete made with Portland cement. It remains the world's tallest non-reinforced concrete structure.^[2][3]

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Heinrich Schliemann.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• February 23 - Yoshikazu Uchida (died 1972)
• July 13 - Adolf Behne (died 1948)
• August 13 - C Howard Crane (died 1952)
• August 30 - Paul G sch (died 1940)
• September 22 - Gunnar Asplund (died 1940)
• December 5 - Ernest Cormier (died 1980)
• December 17 - Wells Coates (died 1958)
• December 28 - Vladimir Tatlin (died 1953)

Deaths

References

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