1760 in architecture

The year 1760 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• The Laleli Mosque ("Tulip Mosque") in Istanbul is begun (completed in 1763).
• St. George's Cathedral, Lviv, Ukraine, designed by Bernard Meretin, is completed.
• Servite Church, Vienna, designed by Martin Carlone, is consecrated.
• Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, designed by Giorgio Massari, is completed.
• Most Holy Trinity Church, Fulnek, Moravia, designed by Nikolaus Thalherr, is completed.
• Østre Porsgrunn Church in Telemark, Norway, designed by Lauritz de Thurah and Andreas Pfützner and built by Joen Jacobsen, is consecrated.
• Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, England, is completed.
• Interior rococo church decoration of the Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães in northern Portugal, designed by André Soares, is completed.
• Reredos of Our Lady of Light in Christo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is erected.
• Reconstruction of St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev by Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi is completed.
• Castellania in Valletta, completed by Giuseppe Bonnici to a design by Francesco Zerafa, is opened.
• Edinburgh City Chambers, designed by John Adam as the Royal Exchange, is opened.
• Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, England, designed by Sanderson Miller, is completed.
• Brockdorff's Palace in Copenhagen is completed.
• Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava is built.
• Palazzo Estense in Varese, Lombardy, designed by Giuseppe Bianchi, is completed.
• Selo Mansion in Ljubljana.
• New country house at Sølyst (Klampenborg) near Copenhagen is built.
• Arno's Court Triumphal Arch in Bristol, England, designed by James Bridges, is built.
• In Amalfi, at Duomo square, a Baroque fountain is built.
• In Cortona, Tuscany, La Mucchia casa vacanze, a typical Tuscan farmhouse, is built by Count Passerini of Cortona.^{[citation needed]}
• Stockholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden is completed.
• The Old Brick Market, a "handsome expression of civic and commercial life" designed by Peter Harrison, opens in Newport, Rhode Island^[1]

Births

• September 30 – Michele Cachia, Maltese architect and military engineer (died 1839)
• date unknown
  • James Cavanah Murphy, Irish-born architect and antiquary (died 1814)
  • Willey Reveley, English architect (died 1799)

Deaths

• November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (born 1717)

References