1718 In Architecture
The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures 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. * Temple in Shotover Park, Oxfordshire, an early example of Gothic Revival architecture in England. * Willmer House in Farnham, England, a noted example of brick building. Births * February – John Vardy, English neo-Palladian architect (died 1765 in architecture, 1765) * March 21 – Friedrich August Krubsacius, Dresden architect (died 1789 in architecture, 17 ...
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