1752 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Valletta Waterfront on Malta is built, including the Church of the Flight into Egypt.
• Mansion House, London, designed by George Dance the Elder, is completed.
• West wing of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, designed by James Gibbs, is built.
• Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv is completed by Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
• Khan As'ad Pasha, Damascus is completed.
• Rebuilding of church of San Biagio, Venice, probably by Filippo Rossi, is completed.
• Church of La Visitation-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie on the island of Montreal, designed by Philippe Liébert is consecrated.
• Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, designed by Jacques Oger (begun 1732) is opened.
• Osteiner Hof in Mainz (Rhineland), designed by Johann Valentin Thomann, is completed.
• Croome Court in Worcestershire, England, designed by Capability Brown and Sanderson Miller, is completed.
• Pollok House near Glasgow in Scotland, designed by William Adam is built.
• Kinbuck Bridge in Scotland is built.
• Hôtel de Ville, Wissembourg in France is inaugurated

Births

• January 18 – John Nash, English architect (died 1835)
• March 5 – Leendert Viervant the Younger, Dutch architect (died 1801)
• Charles-Louis Balzac, French architect and architectural draughtsman (died 1820)

Deaths

• João Frederico Ludovice, born Johann Friedrich Ludwig, German architect working in Portugal (born 1670)
• Daniel Marot, French émigré architect and interior designer (born 1661)

References

References

1. (1814). "London: being a complete guide to the British capital". Sherwood, Neely, and Jones.
2. "As'ad Pasha Khan". [[ArchNet]].
3. "John Nash".
4. Watkin, David. (June 9, 2010). "A History of Western Architecture". Laurence King Publishing.
5. "Daniel Marot". [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]].