A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture

The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London

Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London

Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London

English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent

Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'

English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival

Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament

Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight

Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture

Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin

Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland

A 13-ton bell is installed above London's Houses of Parliament, soon giving its name (Big Ben) to both the clock and the clock-tower

British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens

English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform

The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton

Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4

British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart

The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport