1716 in architecture

Overview of the events of 1716 in architecture

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The year 1716 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

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Le Blond's standard design for Saint Peterburg buildings, 1716

* December 18 – James Gibbs joins the "Vandykes clubb", also called the Club of St Luke for "Virtuosi in London". Its members include William Kent and William Talman; other notable members with whom Gibbs would later work include the garden designer Charles Bridgeman and the sculptor John Michael Rysbrack who sculpts many of the memorials Gibbs designs.
* Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond becomes chief architect of Saint Petersburg in Russia.[1]
* Italian architect and sculptor Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli relocates to Russia to work on a bust of Alexander Menshikov; he works there for the rest of his life.
* Nicholas Hawksmoor advises on the restoration of Beverley Minster in the north of England.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1716

### Buildings

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Veltrusy Mansion, Bohemia

* June 21 – Work begins on construction of the Codrington Library at All Souls College, Oxford, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor; it will be completed in 1751.[2]
* America's first lighthouse, Boston Light, is built; it will be destroyed in the American Revolution and rebuilt in 1783.
* In Buenos Aires, Argentina, a monastery is built by Franciscan Recoleto monks; the complex will serve as a hospital during the English invasions.
* Schloß Oberhof, Grünstadt, Rhineland.
* Veltrusy Mansion, Bohemia, designed by František Maxmilián Kaňka.
* Lasha Great Mosque, Lhasa, Tibet.
* Work begins on Kneuterdijk Palace, in The Hague, Netherlands, built by Daniel Marot for the Count of Wassenaar-Obdam.[3]

## Births

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* January 20 – Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti, German court architect and builder (died 1782)
* January 30 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect (died 1796)
* March 5 – Nicolò Pacassi, Austrian architect (died 1790)
* June 14 – Peter Harrison, English-born architect, active in the Rhode Island colony (died 1775)
* August 30 (bapt.) – Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English landscape architect (died 1783)
* date unknown – Sanderson Miller, English Gothic Revival architect and landscape designer (died 1780)

## Deaths

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* February 3 – Giuseppe Alberti, Italian Baroque painter and architect (born 1664)

## References

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1. ^ OMedvedkova, Olga (2007). Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architecte 1679–1719 – De Paris à Saint-Pétersbourg. Paris: Alain Baudry & Cie. ISBN 978-2-9528617-0-0.
2. ^ "Library Architecture". The Codrington Library. Oxford: All Souls College. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
3. ^ Chris, Schram. "Hague". Archived from the original on 2002-05-27.

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