1788 in architecture
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The year 1788 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
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- Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Netherlands), designed by Jacob Otten Husly, is opened.{{Cite web |title=Husly, Jacob Otten {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/husly-jacob-otten |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
- De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam, designed by Abraham van der Hart, is completed.{{Cite web |title=Biography of HART, Abraham van der in the Web Gallery of Art |url=https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hart/biograph.html |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.wga.hu}}
- Théâtre Graslin in Nantes (France), designed by Mathurin Crucy, is opened.{{Citation |last=Rabreau |first=Daniel |title=L'œuvre de Mathurin Crucy à Nantes. : Une "nouvelle Athènes" sur la Loire : migrations et mutations architecturales (1780-1820) |date=2015-02-06 |url=http://books.openedition.org/pur/5539 |work=Graslin : Le temps des Lumières à Nantes |pages=273–289 |editor-last=Orain |editor-first=Arnaud |series=Histoire |place=Rennes |publisher=Presses universitaires de Rennes |isbn=978-2-7535-3132-1 |access-date=2023-02-20 |editor2-last=Le Pichon |editor2-first=Philippe}}
- Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna is established.
- Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, is built.
- Sofia Albertina Church in Scania (Sweden), designed by Carl Hårleman before his death in 1753, is inaugurated.
- Capilla de Ánimas in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) is completed.
- St. Spyridon Church, Peroj (Croatia) is completed.
- St Gregory's Church, Preshome (Scotland), designed by Father John Reid, is built.
- Façade of St. Anne's Church, Warsaw, by Chrystian Piotr Aigner, is completed.
- Admiralty House, London, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, is opened.
- Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco in Syracuse, Sicily, rebuilt by Luciano Alì, is completed.
- Arresødal on Zealand (Denmark) is completed.
- Eriksholm Castle on the Isefjord (Denmark), designed by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, is completed.
- Sandbjerg in Jutland (Denmark) is built.
- Terraced houses in England at Camden Crescent, Bath and 32–44, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol, designed by John Eveleigh, are built.
- Second Walton Bridge over the River Thames in England, designed by James Paine, is opened.
Births
- February 25 – Thomas Cubitt, English builder (died 1855)
- April 27 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect (died 1863)
- November – William Strickland, American architect (died 1854)
Deaths
- February 2 – James "Athenian" Stuart, English neoclassical architect (born 1733)
- September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect (born 1714)