1670s in architecture

Buildings

 * 1670
 * Báo Quốc Pagoda, Huế, Vietnam, is built.
 * Saint George Palace, Rennes, France, has its foundation stones laid.
 * 1671 – Weston Park, Shropshire, England, is built for Elizabeth Wilbraham.
 * 1672
 * Buildings by Christopher Wren in England:
 * Temple Bar, London rebuilt.
 * Williamson Building at The Queen's College, Oxford, completed.
 * Church of Monastery of Serra do Pilar in Gaia, Portugal, consecrated.
 * Construction of Castillo de San Marcos at St. Augustine, Florida, designed by Ignacio Daza, begins.
 * 1673
 * April – Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Punjab, built for Aurangzeb, is completed.
 * October 3 – Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni, Suō Province (modern-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Japan, is officially completed.
 * The White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island (estimated completion date)
 * St Mary-le-Bow church in London, designed by Christopher Wren, rebuilding completed.
 * Monastery of San Francisco, Lima, Peru, is consecrated (completed 1774).
 * Berkeley House, London, designed by Hugh May and begun in 1665, is completed.
 * 1675
 * June – Work on the new St Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, begins.
 * June 11 – Theatine Church, Munich, consecrated in form as left by Agostino Barelli.
 * August 2 – Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam), designed by Elias Bouwman and begun in 1671, is completed.
 * Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, designed by Robert Hooke.
 * Briggflatts Meeting House near Sedbergh in north-west England built.
 * 1676
 * The Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed.
 * Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, England, is designed by Christopher Wren (completed 1695).
 * Main courtyards of Les Invalides in Paris, designed by Libéral Bruant, are completed.
 * Skokloster Castle in Sweden, designed by Caspar Vogel with Jean de la Vallée and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, is completed.
 * St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Vilnius is completed.
 * 1677
 * The Monument to the Great Fire of London, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke is completed.
 * Chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, designed by Christopher Wren.
 * Remodelling of Cornbury House in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Hugh May and begun about 1663, is completed.
 * 1679
 * Chapel (Église Saint-Louis des Invalides) at Les Invalides, Paris, is completed to the design of Libéral Bruant.
 * Černín Palace in Prague, designed by Francesco Caratti, is completed.
 * Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, designed by Robert Hooke, is completed.

Events

 * 1671: December 30 – The Académie royale d'architecture is founded by Louis XIV of France in Paris, the world's first school of architecture.

Births

 * 1672 – Francis Smith of Warwick, English architect (died 1738)
 * 1673 – Johann Friedrich Ludwig, German-born architect working in Portugal (died 1752)
 * c.1673 – John James, English architect (died 1746)
 * 1676: June 15 – Colen Campbell, Scottish-born Georgian architect (died 1729)
 * 1678: March 7 – Filippo Juvarra, Sicilian-born architect (died 1736)
 * 1679 – Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (died 1758)

Deaths

 * 1670: October 11 – Louis Le Vau French classical architect (born 1612)
 * 1672: October 24 – John Webb, English architect (born 1611)
 * 1677: June 26 – Francesco Buonamici, Italian Baroque architect, painter and engraver (born 1596)