1742 in architecture
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The year 1742 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
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- Azm Palace (Hama), Syria, built.
- Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, designed by Robert de Cotte (d.1735) and Georges Vallon, completed.
- Kozłówka Palace, Poland, designed by Józef Fontana II, completed.{{in lang|en}} {{cite web|url=http://www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl/289,history-of-the-residence|title=History of the residence|work=www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl|access-date=2010-08-01|archive-date=2014-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707162302/http://www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl/289,history-of-the-residence|url-status=dead}}
- Palace of Portici, Italy, designed by Antonio Canevari, completed.
- Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, Alsace, designed by Robert de Cotte, completed.
- Malplaquet House, east London, England, built.
- Berlin Court Opera, designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, inaugurated.
- Queen Mary Court at Greenwich Hospital, London, planned by Wren (d.1723) and Hawksmoor (d.1736), completed by Thomas Ripley.
- Redland Chapel, Bristol, England, designed probably by John Strahan or William Halfpenny, built.{{cite book|last=Burrough|first=T. H. B.|title=Bristol|year=1970|publisher=Studio Vista|location=London|isbn=0-289-79804-3}}
Publications
- Batty Langley publishes Ancient Architecture Restored in England, a pioneering pattern book for Gothic Revival architecture.
Births
- March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect (died 1841)
Deaths
- June 29 – Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (born 1693)
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