1754 in architecture
The year 1754 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, Moravia, finished and consecrated.
- King's Chapel, in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Peter Harrison, completed.
- Wieskirche in Steingaden, Bavaria, designed by Johann Baptist Zimmermann and Dominikus Zimmermann, completed.
- Versailles Cathedral in France, designed by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, completed and consecrated August 24.
- Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Aragon, begun to the design of Francisco Herrera the Younger in 1681 and continued by Felipe Sánchez, completed by Ventura Rodríguez.
- Stroganov Palace in Saint Petersburg, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, completed.
- Pavillon du Butard in France, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Louis XV, completed.
- Tomb of Safdarjung in Delhi, a late example of Mughal architecture, completed.
- Mow Cop Castle in Staffordshire, a folly, built by Randle Wilbraham.
- Liverpool Town Hall, in Liverpool, designed by John Wood, the Elder, completed.
- Stockholm Palace, designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger in 1698 and continued by Carl Hårleman, Carl Johan Cronstedt and Carl Gustaf Tessin, is first occupied by the Swedish royal family December 7.
- St Andrew's Church, Kiev, in Russia, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli, completed externally.
- Obando Church, in the Philippines, completed and consecrated April 29.
- Steeple added to Christ Church, Philadelphia, making it the tallest building in North America.
Births
- 2 February – Carl Ahasver von Sinner, Bernese architect
- 9 August – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect
- John Webb, English landscape designer
Deaths
- 2 February – William Benson, English architect and politician
- 3 May – Joachim Daniel von Jauch, German baroque architect
- 16 May – Germain Boffrand, French architect
- 23 May – John Wood, the Elder, English architect working in Bath
- 7 June – Nicolai Eigtved, Danish architect
- 21 June – Johann Baptist Martinelli, Austrian architect
- 5 August – James Gibbs, Scottish architect working in England
- 12 November – Robert Morris, English architect and writer on architecture
- Charles Étienne Briseux, French architect, interior designer and writer
Publications
- Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni – ''La Relation de la répresentation de la forêt enchantée sur le théâtre des Tuileries''