1779 in architecture

Buildings • St Paul's Square, Birmingham, England. • South façade of Stowe House, England, completed in the neoclassical style based on a design by Robert Adam. • Robert Adam completes his remodelling of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath, London. • New Church of Ireland Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, designed by John Roberts, completed. • Fridericianum in Kassel (Hesse), designed by Simon Louis du Ry, completed. • Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, designed by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, completed. • The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, opened 1 January 1779, Grade I listed Cloth Hall. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Guy de Gisors and Père François Jacques Lannoy. ==Births==

• April 10 – James Savage, English architect (died 1852) • July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (died 1851) • Edward Lapidge, English architect (died 1860) ==Deaths==

• September 30 – Johan Christian Conradi, German-Danish master builder and architect (born 1709) • November 9 – Carl Johan Cronstedt, Swedish architect and inventor (born 1709) • Giuseppe Bonici, Maltese architect and military engineer (born 1707) • Thomas Ivory, English builder and architect working in Norwich (born 1709) • Richard Taliaferro, American architect working in Williamsburg, Virginia (born c.1705) == References ==