1670s in architecture
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Buildings
- 1670
- * Báo Quốc Pagoda, Huế, Vietnam, is built.
- * Saint George Palace, Rennes, France, has its foundation stones laid.
- 1671 – Weston Park, Shropshire, England, is built for Elizabeth Wilbraham.
- 1672
- * Buildings by Christopher Wren in England:
- ** Temple Bar, London rebuilt.
- ** Williamson Building at The Queen's College, Oxford, completed.
- * Church of Monastery of Serra do Pilar in Gaia, Portugal, consecrated.
- * Construction of Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Ignacio Daza, begins.
- 1673
- * April – Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Punjab, built for Aurangzeb, is completed.
- * October 3 – Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni, Suō Province, Japan, is officially completed.
- * The White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island
- * St Mary-le-Bow church in London, designed by Christopher Wren, rebuilding completed.
- * Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru, is consecrated.
- * Berkeley House, London, designed by Hugh May and begun in 1665, is completed.
- 1675
- * June – Work on the new St Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, begins.
- * June 11 – Theatine Church, Munich, consecrated in form as left by Agostino Barelli.
- * August 2 – Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam), designed by Elias Bouwman and begun in 1671, is completed.
- * Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, designed by Robert Hooke.
- * Briggflatts Meeting House near Sedbergh in north-west England built.
- 1676
- * The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed.
- * Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, England, is designed by Christopher Wren.
- * Main courtyards of Les Invalides in Paris, designed by Libéral Bruant, are completed.
- * Skokloster Castle in Sweden, designed by Caspar Vogel with Jean de la Vallée and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, is completed.
- * St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Vilnius is completed.
- 1677
- * The Monument to the Great Fire of London, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke is completed.
- * Chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, designed by Christopher Wren.
- * Remodelling of Cornbury House in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Hugh May and begun about 1663, is completed.
- 1679
- * Chapel at Les Invalides, Paris, is completed to the design of Libéral Bruant.
- * Černín Palace in Prague, designed by Francesco Caratti, is completed.
- * Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, designed by Robert Hooke, is completed.
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