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1983 in architecture

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

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • April 19 – Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, designed by Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel completed.
  • May 1 – Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria.
  • October 15 – The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta.
  • October 21 – The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

Buildings completed

  • The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.
  • The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
  • Western Canadian Place in Calgary, Alberta
  • Henningsvær Bridges, Norway.
  • 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.
  • Manulife Place in Edmonton, Alberta
  • Miami Center in Miami, Florida.
  • High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Richard Meier,
  • Pasilan linkkitorni tower, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava, designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
  • Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
  • Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford, England, designed by Richard MacCormac.
  • Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.
  • Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, Marne-la-Vallée, France, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

Buildings designed

  • Baghdad State Mosque (Iraq), designed by Rasem Badran; never built.

Awards

  • Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Zlatko Ugljen, for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
  • 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

Giuseppe Samonà
  • 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)
  • Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)

References

References

  1. "Norske bruer og viadukter".
  2. "Pasilan linkkitorni". SkyscraperPage.com.
  3. "Baghdad State Mosque (Design)". Archnet.
  4. "Zachwatowicz, Jan".
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