1705 in architecture
The year 1705 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- March – The first of the principal buildings of Greenwich Hospital, London, the King Charles Court, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the first Capitol building is completed.
- Blenheim Palace is begun at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, designed by John Vanbrugh.
- The Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria, is completed.
- Remodelling of the Jesuit Church, Vienna, by Andrea Pozzo is largely completed.
Births
- January 8 – Jacques-François Blondel, French architect
- Charles Labelye, Swiss civil engineer
- Approximate date – Richard Taliaferro, American architect working in Williamsburg, Virginia