1780 in architecture
# 1780 in architecture

The year 1780 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* April 17 – Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in France, designed by Victor Louis is inaugurated.
* June 24 – Chesme Church in Saint Petersburg, designed by Yury Felten, is consecrated.
* Assumption Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine, is consecrated.
* Fragrant Hills Pagoda in China is completed.
* Kashi Vishwanath Temple on the Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is built.
* Xumi Fushou Temple in Chengde Mountain Resort, China, is built.
* Royal Villa of Monza in Lombardy, designed by Giuseppe Piermarini, is completed.
* Reconstruction of Palazzo Tucci in Lucca, Tuscany by Ottaviano Diodati is commissioned.

## Births

* October 1 – Robert Smirke, English architect (died 1867)

## Deaths

* April 23 – Sanderson Miller, English Gothic Revival architect and landscape designer (born 1716)
* August 29 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (born 1713)
