1690s in architecture
overview of the events of the 1690s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
1690
The Sindone Chapel in Turin, Piedmont, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed.
The Barrage Vauban, designed by Vauban and built by Jacques Tarade in Strasbourg, France, is completed
1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, are erected.
1689–1691 – Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by William Talman, is built.
1691–1697 – Branicki Palace, Białystok, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built.
1692
St. Kazimierz Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
Theatine Church, Munich, Bavaria, designed by Agostino Barelli in 1662, is substantially completed to the design of Enrico Zuccalli.
1694
The Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed by construction of the Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace').
The Radziejowski Palace in Nieborów, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built.
The Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin, begun by Amedeo di Castellamonte in 1668, is completed to the design of Guarino Guarini.
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