1723 in architecture
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The year 1723 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
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- Mavisbank House in Midlothian is designed by William Adam{{cite book|last=Colvin|first=Howard|authorlink=Howard Colvin|year=1978|title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840|location=London|publisher=John Murray|isbn=0719533287|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv}} in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and is constructed between 1723 and 1727, the first Palladian villa in Scotland.{{cite book|authorlink=Dan Cruickshank|first=Dan|last=Cruickshank|title=A Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain & Ireland|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=1985|isbn=0-297-78610-5|pages=226–7}}
- St Mary le Strand in London, designed by James Gibbs, becomes the first wholly new church completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
- Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, Italy, is designed by Carlo Francesco Dotti.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean Pinard.
Births
- February 23 – William Chambers, Swedish-born Scottish architect (died 1796)
- April 28 – John Carr, English architect (died 1807)
Deaths
- February 25 – Christopher Wren, English architect and scientist (born 1632)
- April 5 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (born 1656)
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