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The year 1788 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Felix Meritis on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, built and restored as a cultural centre
- Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Netherlands), designed by Jacob Otten Husly, is opened.[1]
- De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam, designed by Abraham van der Hart, is completed.[2]
- Théâtre Graslin in Nantes (France), designed by Mathurin Crucy, is opened.[3]
- Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna is established.
- Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, is built.
- Sofia Albertina Church in Scania (Sweden), designed by Carl Hårleman before his death in 1753, is inaugurated.
- Capilla de Ánimas in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) is completed.
- St. Spyridon Church, Peroj (Croatia) is completed.
- St Gregory's Church, Preshome (Scotland), designed by Father John Reid, is built.
- Façade of St. Anne's Church, Warsaw, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner, is completed.
- Admiralty House, London, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, is opened.
- Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco in Syracuse, Sicily, rebuilt by Luciano Alì, is completed.
- Arresødal on Zealand (Denmark) is completed.
- Eriksholm Castle on the Isefjord (Denmark), designed by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, is completed.
- Sandbjerg in Jutland (Denmark) is built.
- Terraced houses in England at Camden Crescent, Bath and 32–44, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol, designed by John Eveleigh, are built.
- Second Walton Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine, is opened.
Births
- February 25 – Thomas Cubitt, English builder (died 1855)
- April 27 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect (died 1863)
- November – William Strickland, American architect (died 1854)
Deaths
- February 2 – James "Athenian" Stuart, English neoclassical architect (born 1733)
- September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect (born 1714)
References
- ↑ "Husly, Jacob Otten | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ↑ "Biography of HART, Abraham van der in the Web Gallery of Art". www.wga.hu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ↑ Rabreau, Daniel (2015-02-06), Orain, Arnaud; Le Pichon, Philippe (eds.), "L'œuvre de Mathurin Crucy à Nantes. : Une "nouvelle Athènes" sur la Loire : migrations et mutations architecturales (1780-1820)", Graslin : Le temps des Lumières à Nantes, Histoire, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, pp. 273–289, ISBN 978-2-7535-3132-1, retrieved 2023-02-20
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