1915 in architecture
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The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
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=Buildings opened=
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- April – The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
- April 21 – Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal.{{cite web|url=http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=11126 |title=Teatro Circo de Braga (n.PT010303420055) |publisher=SIPA – Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico |editor=SIPA |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=Portuguese |first=António |last=Dinis |first2=Filomena |last2=Bandeira |year=2002 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310205740/http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=11126 |archivedate=2014-03-10}}
- November 6 – Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen.
=Buildings completed=
- Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.themuseummumbai.com/home.aspx|title=Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai|access-date=2013-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624125417/http://themuseummumbai.com/home.aspx|archive-date=2013-06-24|url-status=dead}}
- Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt.
- Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California.
- Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Darling.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.
Births
- April 22 – Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004)
- May 8 – Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013)
- October 4 – Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957)
- December 12 – Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010)
- December 31 – George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975)
Deaths
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- February 17 – George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854)
- April 17 – Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831)
- May 28 – Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840){{cite web|title=Indo-Saracenic Architecture in Chennai|first=George J.|last=Jeyaraj |url=http://www.cmdachennai.gov.in/pdfs/seminar_heritage_buildings/Indo_Saracenic_Architecture_in_Chennai.pdf|publisher=Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority}}
- June 25 – John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838)
- July 11 – Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846)