1718 in architecture

Buildings and structures

The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

In Pascagoula, Mississippi, the Old Spanish Fort is built.
In Bengal, the mazar of Saint Shah Sultan Mahi Swar Balkhi is built, a single domed mosque.
In Bavaria, Schloss Weißenstein is completed to the designs of Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.
In London, St Alfege Church, Greenwich, rebuilt by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is consecrated, the first completed work of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
The church of Santa Cristina, Turin is completed under guidance of Filippo Juvarra

February - John Vardy, English neo-Palladian architect (died 1765)
March 21 - Friedrich August Krubsacius, Dresden architect (died 1789)
May 14 - Mario Gioffredo, Neapolitan architect, engineer and engraver (died 1785)

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