1705 in architecture

The year 1705 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * March – The first of the principal buildings of Greenwich Hospital, London, the King Charles Court, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
 * November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the first Capitol building is completed.
 * Blenheim Palace is begun at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, designed by John Vanbrugh (completed 1722).
 * The Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria, is completed (started 1692).
 * Remodelling of the Jesuit Church, Vienna, by Andrea Pozzo is largely completed.

Births

 * January 8 – Jacques-François Blondel, French architect (died 1774)
 * Charles Labelye, Swiss civil engineer (died 1762)
 * Approximate date – Richard Taliaferro, American architect working in Williamsburg, Virginia (died 1779)

Deaths

 * Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham, English amateur architect (born 1632)