page_title: 1888 in architecture
section_title: Buildings opened
hierarchical_section_title: 1888 in architecture / Buildings and structures / Buildings opened
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Castell dels Tres Dragons - Barcelone English: Castell dels Tres Dragons - Barcelona This is a photo of a building indexed in the Catalan heritage register as Bé Cultural d'Interès Local (BCIL) under the reference 08019/1320.
context_page_description: The year 1888 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
context_section_description: January 5 – The Neues deutsches Theater, Prague, designed by Fellner & Helmer with Baron Karl von Hasenauer and Alfons Wertmüller.
  April 11 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, designed by Adolf Leonard van Gendt.
  May – Victoria Terminus station building, designed by Frederick William Stevens for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, in Bombay's Bori Bunder district (modern-day: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai).
  August 12 – Plaza de Toros de El Bibio, Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
  August 17 – Castle of the Three Dragons for 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition, Spain, designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
  August 18 – Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, designed by Hermann Eggert and Johann Wilhelm Schwedler.
  September 20 – Ghazanchetsots Cathedral (Armenian Apostolic Church), designed by Simon Ter-Hakobian(ts).
  October 2 – Annunciation Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine, designed by Mikhail Lovtsov.
  October 4 – Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Australia, designed by John Harry Grainger.
  October 14 – Burgtheater, Ringstraße, Vienna, designed by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer.
  October 20 – Zappeion, Athens, designed by Theophil Hansen.
  Autumn – Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (as the "Georgia School of Technology"), with Tech Tower used for classrooms.
caption: Castle of the Three Dragons, Barcelona
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