The year 1746 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Mansion of Ledreborg on Zealand, designed by Johan Cornelius Krieger, completed. Asamkirche, Munich, designed by Egid Quirin Asam and Cosmas Damian Asam, completed. Old Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russia, completed. St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth, England, consecrated. Transfiguration Church, Szentendre, Hungary, completed. Rebuilding of main chapel of the Cathedral of Évora, Portugal, designed by João Frederico Ludovice, completed. Second phase of construction of Poppelsdorf Palace near Bonn completed. Foundation stone of new Inveraray Castle in Scotland laid.
Births August 3 – James Wyatt, English architect (died 1813)
Deaths May 15 – John James, English architect (born c. 1673) June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, Venetian-born architect (born 1686)
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