1983 in architecture

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The year 1983 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

• May 1 - Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria.

Buildings completed

• The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.
• The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Henningsvær Bridges, Norway.^[1]
• Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas.
• Williams Tower/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas.
• ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas.
• The Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Trump Tower in New York City.
• One Cleveland Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Miami Center, in Miami, Florida.
• Pasilan linkkitorni tower, Helsinki, Finland.^[2]
• Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava, designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
• Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
• The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.
• Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Nathaniel Alexander Owings.
• Architecture Firm Award - Holabird & Root.
• Pritzker Prize - I. M. Pei.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Gilbert Nic and Ross Chisholm.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Norman Foster.
• Twenty-five Year Award - Price Tower.

Deaths

• January 29 - Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician (born 1926)
• July 1 - Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (born 1895)
• June 12 - Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (born 1886)
• August 18
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture (born 1902)
  • Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer (born 1900)^[3]
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)

References

1. Merzagora, Eugenio A. (ed.). "Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (499-200 m)". Norske bruer og viadukter. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
2. "Pasilan linkkitorni". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
3. "Zachwatowicz, Jan". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-05-12.