1757 in architecture
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The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
[edit]Buildings and structures
[edit]Buildings
[edit]- Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened.
- Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened.
- Vorontsov Palace (Saint Petersburg), designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed.
- Gammel Holtegård near Copenhagen is completed by architect Lauritz de Thurah as a house for himself.
- Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac in Aix-en-Provence is completed with a façade designed by Georges Vallon.
- Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, England, a Palladian house attributed to the polymath Thomas Wright, is completed.[1]
- Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire, England, designed by Benjamin Wyatt, is built.
- Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Negoslavci in Croatia is completed.
- Wolvendaal Church in Colombo (Dutch Ceylon) is completed.
- Ossian's Hall of Mirrors in Scotland, a folly, is built.
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Publications
[edit]- William Chambers – Designs of Chinese Buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils: to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c. (London)
Births
[edit]- January 16 – Samuel McIntire, American architect (died 1811)
- May 4 – Manuel Tolsá, Spanish architect and sculptor working in Mexico (died 1816)
- August 9 – Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (died 1834)
Deaths
[edit]- March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (born 1696)