The year 1721 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Bocking Windmill, Essex, England. 7 Burlington Gardens, later Queensberry House, London, Giacomo Leoni's first design for England Fort King George, along the Altamaha River in the modern-day US state of Georgia Ruthven Barracks in Scotland completed Jackson Square (New Orleans), New France Nazarbaug Palace, Gujarat, India Ellingen Residence in Ellingen, Bavaria completed in its Baroque form Písek Gate, Prague, Czech Republic Saint Paul the First Hermit Cathedral completed as parish church of San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines
Awards Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Philippe Buache.
Births March 5 – John Adam, architect, brother of Robert Adam and James Adam (died 1792) March 26 - Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, French architect (Bourse de Commerce) and author (died 1793) date unknown Francesco Sabatini, Sicilian architect working in Spain (died 1797) Thomas Sandby, English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect, and teacher (died 1798)
Deaths February 11 – Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri, Italian architect (born 1656) June 11 – Sir Anthony Deane, English naval architect, shipbuilder and politician (born 1633)
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