1758 in architecture
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The year 1758 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- Perrott's Folly in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England is completed.
- The Shire Hall, Warwick, England, designed by Sanderson Miller, is completed.
Events
- Foundations of a new Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, are begun; the structure will be completed in 1790 by his pupil Jean-Baptiste Rondelet to serve as the Panthéon.
Births
- Approximate date - Francesco Piranesi, Italian-born architectural engraver and architect (died 1810)
Deaths
- February 10 - Thomas Ripley, English architect (born c.1683)
- April 21 - Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (born 1679)
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