1752 in architecture
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The year 1752 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
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- Valletta Waterfront on Malta is built, including the Church of the Flight into Egypt.
- Mansion House, London, designed by George Dance the Elder, is completed.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/londonbeingacom00wallgoog|quote=mansion house 1752.|title=London: being a complete guide to the British capital|year=1814|accessdate=August 13, 2012|publisher=Sherwood, Neely, and Jones|first1=Thomas|last1=Pennant|authorlink=Thomas Pennant|first2=John|last2=Wallis|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/londonbeingacom00wallgoog/page/n525 445]|edition=4th}}
- West wing of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, designed by James Gibbs, is built.
- Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv is completed by Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
- Khan As'ad Pasha, Damascus is completed.{{cite web|url=http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=8309|title=As'ad Pasha Khan|accessdate=August 13, 2012|publisher=ArchNet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812220904/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=8309|archive-date=2012-08-12|url-status=dead}}
- Rebuilding of church of San Biagio, Venice, probably by Filippo Rossi, is completed.
- Church of La Visitation-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie on the island of Montreal, designed by Philippe Liébert is consecrated.
- Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, designed by Jacques Oger (begun 1732) is opened.
- Osteiner Hof in Mainz (Rhineland), designed by Johann Valentin Thomann, is completed.
- Croome Court in Worcestershire, England, designed by Capability Brown and Sanderson Miller, is completed.
- Pollok House near Glasgow in Scotland, designed by William Adam is built.
- Kinbuck Bridge in Scotland is built.
- Hôtel de Ville, Wissembourg in France is inaugurated
Births
- January 18 – John Nash, English architect (died 1835){{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/403844/John-Nash|title=John Nash|accessdate=August 13, 2012|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
- March 5 – Leendert Viervant the Younger, Dutch architect (died 1801)
- Charles-Louis Balzac, French architect and architectural draughtsman (died 1820)
Deaths
- João Frederico Ludovice, born Johann Friedrich Ludwig, German architect working in Portugal (born 1670){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39T1zElEBrQC&q=Johann+Friedrich+Ludwig+1752&pg=PA359|title=A History of Western Architecture|date=June 9, 2010|accessdate=August 13, 2012|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|location=London|first=David|last=Watkin|authorlink=David Watkin (historian)|page=359|edition=4th|isbn=978-1856694599}}
- Daniel Marot, French émigré architect and interior designer (born 1661){{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/39/101039328/|title=Daniel Marot|accessdate=August 13, 2012|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}