title: 1704 in architecture
text: # 1704 in architecture
  
  The year 1704 in architecture involved some significant events.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * English architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh is commissioned to begin Blenheim Palace.
  * Schleissheim Palace near Munich in Bavaria, designed by Enrico Zuccalli, is completed.
  * Cound Hall, Shropshire, England, designed by John Prince or Price, is completed.
  * Burgh House, Hampstead, London is built.
  * Church of the Ascension, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, probably designed by Sir William Wilson, is consecrated.
  * Construction of Hirado Castle in Nagasaki (Japan) begins.
  * Construction on Ludwigsburg Palace begins.
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 6 (bapt.) – Isaac Ware, English architect (died 1766)
  * August 26 (bapt.) – John Wood, the Elder, English architect working in Bath (died 1754)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Paolo Falconieri, Florentine architect, painter and mathematician (born 1638)
  