1786 in architecture
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The year 1786 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
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- Casa de Esteban de Luca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{cite book|author=Michael Luongo|title=Frommer's Buenos Aires|url=https://archive.org/details/frommersbuenosai00mich|url-access=registration|date=11 October 2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-75124-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/frommersbuenosai00mich/page/109 109]–}}
- Golghar, Patna, India, built by Captain John Garstin.[http://images.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?_IXFIRST_=39&_IXSS_=_IXFIRST_%3d1%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dIXID%3d%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26%2524%253dIXOBJECT%3d%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d15%26%252asform%3dvanda%26%2524%253dIXNAME%3d%26_IXSESSION_%3dkqOBQ7B2FSq%26%2524%253dIXPLACE%3d%26_IXadv_%3d0%26search%3dsearch%26%2524%253dIXMATERIAL%3d%26%2524%253ds%3dpatna%26%2524%253dop%3dAND%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26%2524%253dIXFROM%3d%26%2524%253dIXTO%3d&_IXACTION_=query&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=7fdauD0_pkE&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft Golghar, 1888]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Victoria & Albert Museum. {{cite web|title=Destinations : Patna|url=http://bstdc.bih.nic.in/Patna.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140918091228/http://bstdc.bih.nic.in/patna.htm|archive-date=2014-09-18}}
- Henley Bridge, designed by William Hayward of Shrewsbury,{{cite web|url=https://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/explore/items/henleys-medieval-bridge|title=Henley's Medieval Bridge|website=VCH Explore|access-date=23 August 2018}} who died before construction was completed.
- Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, designed by Michael Philipp Boumann.{{cite book|author1=Martin Kieren|author2=Förderverein Deutsches Architektur Zentrum|title=New architecture, Berlin 1990-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afxPAAAAMAAJ|date=1 August 1998|publisher=Jovis|isbn=9783931321826}}
- St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson, Ukraine, built by General Ivan Gannibal.http://russian-church.ru/viewpage.php?cat=kherson&page=7 Russian Church (Russian)]. Accessed 11 December 2013.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Percier.
Births
- January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia (died 1858)
- May 7 – John Watts, Irish military architect (died 1873)
Deaths
- February 28 – John Gwynn, English architect and civil engineer (born 1713)
- October 20 – Humphrey Sturt, British architect (born c.1725)