1729 in architecture
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The year 1729 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- 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.[1]
- 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.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
Deaths
- September 13 - Colen Campbell, Scottish-born architect (born 1676)
References
- ↑ "About Castletown House". Office of Public Works. Retrieved 2012-03-20.
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