The year 1721 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Buildings and structures edit
Buildings edit
- Bocking Windmill, Essex, England.[1]
- 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[2]
- 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
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Awards edit
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Philippe Buache.
Births edit
- March 5 – John Adam, architect, brother of Robert Adam and James Adam (died 1792)
- March 26 - Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, French architect (Bourse de Commerce) and author (died 1793)
- date unknown
- Francesco Sabatini, Sicilian architect working in Spain (died 1797)[3]
- Thomas Sandby, English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect, and teacher (died 1798)
Deaths edit
- February 11 – Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri, Italian architect (born 1656)[4]
- June 11 – Sir Anthony Deane, English naval architect, shipbuilder and politician (born 1633)
References edit
- ^ "Windmill, Church Street (south east side), Braintree, Essex". English Heritage. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
- ^ Coleman, Kenneth (1991). A History of Georgia. University of Georgia.
- ^ Charles, Victoria; Carl, Klaus (2014). Rococo. Parkstone International. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-78310-390-4.
- ^ Mallory, Nina A.; Varriano, John L. (1974). Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri (1655-1721). Society of Architectural Historians.
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