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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1690}} ===Buildings=== [[File:Lhasa Potala.jpg|thumb|[[Potala Palace]]]] * 1690 ** The [[Sindone Chapel]] in [[Turin]], Piedmont, designed by [[Guarino Guarini]] is completed. ** The [[Barrage Vauban]], designed by [[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban|Vauban]] and built by [[Jacques Tarade]] in [[Strasbourg]], France, is completed * 1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in [[Vilnius]], [[Sapieha Palace 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 (architect)|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 [[:File:Poland Nieborów Palace 007.jpg|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. [[File:Cmglee Cambridge Trinity College Neviles Court.jpg|thumb|[[Wren Library]]]] * 1695–1699 – [[Craigiehall]], near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir [[William Bruce (architect)|William Bruce]]. * 1696 ** Main façades of [[Chatsworth House#The 1st Duke's Chatsworth|Chatsworth House]] completed to designs of [[William Talman (architect)|William Talman]] in a pioneering [[English Baroque]] style. ** Library of [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], designed locally, is completed.<ref name=Tyack>{{cite book|title=Oxford: An Architectural Guide|last=Tyack|first=Geoffrey|year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref> ** Construction of [[Schönbrunn Palace]] in Vienna to the design of [[Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach]] begins. * 1697 – [[:File:Троицкий собор (Соликамск).jpg|Trinity Cathedral]] in [[Solikamsk]], Russia (begun [[1683 in architecture|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 in architecture|1712]]), designed by Sir [[John Vanbrugh]] and [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]], is begun.
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