1773 in architecture
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The year 1773 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- July 30 – Following the discovery of the iron waters in the civil parish of Fraião, archbishop D. Gaspar de Bragança orders the municipal council to proceed with the use of the waters.{{citation|url=http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=8759 |title=Fonte das Águas Férreas (v.PT010303160112) |publisher=SIPA – Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico |editor=SIPA |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=Portuguese |first=António |last=Dinis |year=2001 |access-date=3 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045733/http://www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=8759 |archive-date=5 March 2016 }} The municipal government contracts master mason Paulo Vidal (a resident of Adaúfe) to construct a fountain for 80$000 réis."for the people with better hygiene, comfort and seclusion to serve from the said water".
- Caspar Frederik Harsdorff is commissioned to redesign the Hercules Pavilion at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. His design with niches and statues gives the building its current name.{{cite web|url=http://www.ses.dk/en/SlotteOgHaver/Slotte/RosenborgSlotOgKongensHave/kongenshave/herkulespavillonen.aspx |title=The Hercules Pavilion |publisher=Palaces and Properties Agency |access-date=2011-02-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719131249/http://www.ses.dk/en/SlotteOgHaver/Slotte/RosenborgSlotOgKongensHave/kongenshave/herkulespavillonen.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}
- Domenico Merlini becomes the Royal Architect in Poland.
Buildings and structures
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=Buildings completed=
- Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England, designed by Robert Adam.
- St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin, Germany.
Births
- August 30 – Mihály Pollack, Hungarian Neoclassical architect (died 1855)
Deaths
- March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (born 1700)