1742 in architecture explained

The year 1742 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of the residence. www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl. 2010-08-01. 2014-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20140707162302/http://www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl/289,history-of-the-residence. dead.
2. Book: Burrough, T. H. B.. Bristol. 1970. Studio Vista. London. 0-289-79804-3.