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Overview of the events of 1730 in architecture
The year 1730 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
-
Annenhof Palace in the
Lefortovo District of
Moscow, designed by
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
- The
Column of Victory at
Blenheim Palace in
England, designed by
Roger Morris and
Henry Herbert, is completed.
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Zeughaus (
arsenal, modern-day
Deutsches Historisches Museum) on
Unter den Linden in
Berlin (
Prussia), to a design originated by
Johann Arnold Nering in
1695 (the year of his death) and continued successively by
Martin Grünberg,
Andreas Schlüter and
Jean de Bodt, is completed.
-
Senate House (University of Cambridge), designed by
James Gibbs and
James Burrough, is completed.
-
St Anne's Limehouse, designed by
Nicholas Hawksmoor, and
St Paul's, Deptford, designed by
Thomas Archer, are completed for the
Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in
London; and Hawksmoor's
St. George's, Bloomsbury, is consecrated.
- Approximate date – Clothiers' houses in Fore Street,
Trowbridge, England –
No. 64 and
No. 70 (Parade House) – are built.
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