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Overview of the events of 1729 in architecture
The year 1729 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Christ Church, Spitalfields
- February 3 – The foundation stone is laid for the new
Irish Houses of Parliament on
College Green in
Dublin, designed by
Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built
bicameral legislative building.
- Completion of
Castletown House,
Celbridge,
County Kildare,
Ireland's first
Palladian mansion, designed by
Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for
William Conolly,
Speaker of the
Irish House of Commons.
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- Completion of
Kinlet Hall,
Shropshire, England, designed by
Francis Smith of Warwick.
- Completion of
Marble Hill House,
Twickenham, near London, designed by
Roger Morris.
- Completion of
Sutton Scarsdale Hall,
Derbyshire, England, designed by
Francis Smith of Warwick.
-
Christ Church, Spitalfields, and
St George in the East in
London, designed by
Nicholas Hawksmoor, are completed for the
Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
-
Chiswick House in London is designed by
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and
William Kent.
- The Palladian Dormitory at
Westminster School in London is designed by
Richard Boyle.
-
Fountain of Ahmed III (Üsküdar) completed.
Awards
Births
Deaths
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