1706 in architecture
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The year 1706 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
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- August 22 – The royal chapel (Église du Dôme) at Les Invalides is consecrated,{{cite book|last=Jestaz|first=Bertrand|title=L'Hôtel et l'église des Invalides|publisher=Picard and Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites|language=fr|year=1990|isbn=2-7084-0396-6|page=48}} following completion of the dome.{{cite book |last1=A and W Galignani and Co |title=Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1852 |date=1852 |publisher=A. and W. Galignani |page=371 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlY1kVUhX8YC |access-date=24 February 2024 |language=en}}{{cite book|author=André Chastel|title=Paris|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|year=1971|isbn=9780030859878|page=143}}
- August – Ljubljana Cathedral, largely designed by Andrea Pozzo, is completed and opens for worship (not consecrated until 1707).{{cite web |url=http://barok.zrc-sazu.si/Spomeniki/Stolnica.aspx |title=Stolna in župnijska cerkev sv. Miklavža |trans-title=St. Nicholas's Cathedral and Parish Church |first1=Helena |last1=Seražin |first2=Barbara |last2=Murovec |access-date=28 May 2012 |language=sl |work=Pot po baročni Ljubljani: virtualna razstava sakralnih spomenikov [Path Through the Baroque Ljubljana: A Virtual Exhibition of Sacral Monuments |editor-first=Ana |editor-last=Lavrič |publisher=Art History Institute of France Stele, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences}}
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- Dominican Church and Convent of Assumption of Mary in Tarnobrzeg, Poland, is rebuilt.
- Church of St George the Martyr, Holborn, London, designed by Arthur Tooley, is completed.
- Yeni-Kale, Ottoman Turkish fortress in the Crimea, is completed under the guidance of Goloppo.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume II: G-K|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1988|isbn=9781442651180}}
Births
- March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (died 1759){{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/17/0372.html|title=de Thurah, Laurids Lauridsen|work=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|author=Carl Frederik Bricka|access-date=7 September 2024}}
- August 28 – Jan Bouman, Dutch architect working in Potsdam (died 1776)
- unknown dates
- Mateus Vicente de Oliveira, Portuguese architect (died 1786)
- Thomas Gilbert, English architect (died 1776){{cite book | last=Colvin | first=H. | title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 | publisher=Yale University Press | series=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-300-12508-5 |page=427}}
Deaths
- October? – Martin Grünberg,{{cite book |last1=Kandt |first1=Kevin E. |title=Schlüteriana II: Studies in the Art, Life, and Milieu of Andreas Schlüter |date=1 March 2014 |publisher=Lukas Verlag |isbn=978-3-86732-182-2 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzRmAwAAQBAJ&dq=Martin+Gr%C3%BCnberg+1706+death&pg=PA52 |access-date=24 February 2024 |language=en}} Prussian architect (born c.1655)
- Approximate date – Tylman van Gameren, Dutch architect working in Warsaw (born 1632)
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