Buildings plan • April 17 –
James Craig's plan for the
New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, wins the prize offered by the city council in January. • October 28 –
Coldstream Bridge across the
River Tweed on the England/Scotland border, designed by
John Smeaton, is opened to traffic. •
Paxton House, Berwickshire, Scotland, is completed. •
Strawberry Hill House, London, designed by
Horace Walpole, is completed in the
Gothick style. •
Pazo de Raxoi in
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is completed. • Rebuilding of
Potocki Palace, Warsaw, to designs by
Jakub Fontana, is completed. •
Shardeloes (country house) in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by
Stiff Leadbetter, is completed. • New main residence at
Skjoldenæsholm Castle in Denmark, possibly designed by
Philip de Lange, is built. •
Theatre Royal, Bristol, England, built by
Thomas Paty to designs by James Saunders, is opened. • New
Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm, designed by
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, is completed as an opera house. •
St. Paul's Chapel on
Broadway (Manhattan) in New York City, designed by Thomas McBean, is completed. • St Nikolaus church at
Brohl in the Rhineland, designed by J. A. Neurohr, is built. • St Markus church at
Pünderich in the Rhineland, designed by Paul Stähling, is built. • Stone
Hermitage and
Rozhdestvensky Bridges in
Saint Petersburg are completed. ==Publications==