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1721 in architecture

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1721 in architecture

The year 1721 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Buildings

  • Bocking Windmill, Essex, England.
  • 7 Burlington Gardens, later Queensberry House, London, Giacomo Leoni's first design for England
  • Fort King George, along the Altamaha River in the modern-day US state of Georgia
  • Ruthven Barracks in Scotland completed
  • Jackson Square (New Orleans), New France
  • Nazarbaug Palace, Gujarat, India
  • Ellingen Residence in Ellingen, Bavaria completed in its Baroque form
  • Písek Gate, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Saint Paul the First Hermit Cathedral completed as parish church of San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines

    • Awards

  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Philippe Buache.

    • Births

  • March 5 - John Adam, architect, brother of Robert Adam and James Adam (died 1792)
  • date unknown - Thomas Sandby, draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher (died 1798)

    • Deaths

  • date unknown
  • Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri, Italian architect (born 1656)
  • Anthony Deane, naval architect, shipbuilder and politician (born 1638)

    • References

    1721 in architecture Wikipedia
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