1745 in architecture

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The Great Lavra Belltower, constructed in 1731-1745 and designed by Johann Gottfried Schädel in Kiev, Ukraine.

The year 1745 in architecture had many different buildings constructed and people born.

See also: 1744 in architecture, other events of 1745, 1746 in architecture and the architecture timeline.

[edit] Buildings

• The Great Lavra Belltower, the main belltower of the ancient cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, the current capital of Ukraine, was finished. Construction years: 1731-1745.

[edit] Deaths

• William Kent (born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, c. 1685 - April 12, 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
• Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (born in Genoa, 1668, died in Vienna, 1745) was an Italian-trained Austrian architect who designed many stately buildings and churches.