1690s in architecture

Buildings

• 1690
  • The Sindone Chapel in Turin, Piedmont, designed by Guarino Guarini is completed.
  • The Barrage Vauban, designed by Vauban and built by Jacques Tarade in Strasbourg, France, is completed
• 1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in Vilnius, Sapieha Palace and Slushko Palace, designed by Pietro Perti, are erected.
• 1689–1691 – Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by William Talman, is built.
• 1691–1697 – Branicki Palace, Białystok, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built.
• 1692
  • St. Kazimierz Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
  • Theatine Church, Munich, Bavaria, designed by Agostino Barelli in 1662, is substantially completed to the design of Enrico Zuccalli.
• 1694
  • The Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed by construction of the Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace').
  • The Radziejowski Palace in Nieborów, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is built.
  • The Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin, begun by Amedeo di Castellamonte in 1668, is completed to the design of Guarino Guarini.
• 1695 – Wren Library, the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.

• 1695–1699 – Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce.
• 1696
  • Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William Talman in a pioneering English Baroque style.
  • Library of The Queen's College, Oxford, designed locally, is completed.^[1]
  • Construction of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna to the design of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach begins.
• 1697 – Trinity Cathedral in Solikamsk, Russia (begun 1683), is completed.
• 1698 – Fortified town of Neuf-Brisach in Alsace, designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, is begun.
• 1699 – Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England (completed 1712), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is begun.