1620s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- 1619 – Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark designed by Lorentz and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, is begun
- 1620
- * Work on Santa Maria delle Grazie Tower in Xgħajra, Malta begins.
- * Reconstruction of Frederiksborg Palace, Denmark, is completed by Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger following the death of his brother Lorentz.
- * Skaill House on Orkney is built.
- 1620 – Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila, Philippines.
- 1616–1621 – Church of St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, Paris, designed by Salomon de Brosse, is built.
- 1621 – Prince's Lodging at Newmarket, Suffolk, England, designed by Inigo Jones, completed.
- 1622–1628 – The Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah in Agra, India, is built.
- 1622 – The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.
- 1623 – New, France, designed by Salomon de Brosse and Jean Thiriot, is built.
- 1624
- *St John's College Old Library, Cambridge, building is completed.
- *The Palace of Versailles is first built by order of King Louis XIII of France, as a hunting lodge.
- 1624–1626 – Façade of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, designed by Giovanni Battista Soria, is built.
- 1623–1627 – Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace in London, designed by Inigo Jones, is built.
- 1615–1625 – Luxembourg Palace, Paris, designed by Salomon de Brosse, is built.
- c. 1625/26 – Coymans house, Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, designed by Jacob van Campen.
- 1626 – Rebuilding of Beopjusa Palsangjeon in Korea is completed.
- 1627
- * Palazzo Barberini in Rome begun by Carlo Maderno and Francesco Borromini.
- * Muchalls Castle in Scotland, reconstruction completed by Thomas Burnett of Leys.
- 1628
- * Salzburg Cathedral in Austria, designed by Santino Solari, consecrated.
- * George Heriot's Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1629 – Simtokha Dzong in Bhutan.
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