1580s in architecture

Buildings in Rome, Italy • 1580 – Old City of Zamość, designed by Bernardo Morando, is established in Poland. • 1580–1588 – Wollaton Hall near Nottingham in England, probably designed by Robert Smythson, is built. • 1581 • Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari and continued by Alfonso Parigi the Elder and Bernardo Buontalenti, is completed. • Litomyšl Castle in Bohemia, begun in 1568, is completed. • c. 1582 – Dome and lantern of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome, completed by Giacomo del Duca. • 1583 • Allahabad Fort, built by Emperor Akbar, is completed. • Quirinal Palace in Rome, designed by Carlo Maderno and Domenico Fontana, is begun. • New Basilica of Our Lady of Humility, Pistoia, Tuscany, is consecrated. • 1584 • El Escorial palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain (begun 1563), designed by Juan de Herrera, is completed. • Church of the Gesù in Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1568 and completed by Giacomo della Porta with "the first truly baroque façade", is consecrated. • 1585 – Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened. • 1585 – Neubau in Strasbourg, begun in 1582, is inaugurated. • 1586 – Golden Tea Room first recorded in use in Japan. • 1587–1588 – Fort Al Jalali at Muscat, Oman, is built by Portuguese naval captain Belchior Calaça. • 1588 • Court theatre at Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is begun (completed 1590.) • Roselius-Haus in Bremen is completed. • Villa Barbarigo, Noventa Vicentina is commissioned. ==Publications==

• 1584 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his treatise ''Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura''. ==Births==

• 1585 – Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect and engineer (died 1638) • 1586–1587 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (died 1647) • 1587 • Fabio Mangone, Italian architect (died 1629) • Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, Flemish/Danish architect (died 1639) ==Deaths==

• 1580: August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508) • 1583: October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510) • 1588: July 17 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (born 1489) ==References==