1726 in architecture
- 1726 in architecture
The year 1726 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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Dresden Frauenkirche , inDresden ,Germany , designed byGeorge Bähr . (Completed in 1743; destroyed in 1945; reconstructed in 2005)Awards
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Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
Deaths
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March 26 - SirJohn Vanbrugh (born 1664)
*September 16 -Jakob Prandtauer (born 1660)
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