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The year 1700 in architecture involved some significant events. ... Brown House, Rehoboth, ... Wren Building, College of William & Mary, ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in the 1700s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1700 in architecture; 1701 in architecture; 1702 in architecture; 1703 in architecture; 1704 in architecture; ... General Glover House This page was last ...
Many buildings throughout Europe were built of brick, but they were often coated in lime render, sometimes patterned to look like stone. Brick production itself changed little. Bricks were moulded by hand and fired in kilns no different to those used for centuries before.
New town halls and storehouses were built, and many new canals were dug out in and around various cities such as Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam for defense and transport purposes. Many wealthy merchants had new houses built along these canals. These houses were generally very narrow and had ornamented façades that befitted their new status.
Turf house with a wooden gafli in Iceland.. Icelandic architecture changed in many ways in more than 1,000 years after the turf houses were being constructed. The first evolutionary step happened in the 14th century, when the Viking-style longhouses were gradually abandoned and replaced with many small and specialized interconnected buildings.
The new houses were built of stone, often on top of or surrounding an earlier wooden building. In the Engadin valley they built stone byre-dwellings, typically with a Sulèr, a wide passage through the residential section into the hay storage section. The kitchen, dining and storage rooms were branched off the Sulèr.
The Stockholm Palace. After the Rise of Sweden as a Great Power in the 17th century, the aristocracy began to build again. At the same time, the notion of the architect was established and the profession developed, its reputation bolstered by the works of Simon de la Vallée and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.