1983 in architecture explained

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.^[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.
• 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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]

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

• 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)^[4]
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)

Notes and References

1. Book: Norske bruer og viadukter. Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (499-200 m). Merzagora. Eugenio A.. 2012-07-16. 2020-07-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200719234957/http://www.lotsberg.net/data/norway/bru-2.html. dead.
2. Web site: Pasilan linkkitorni. SkyscraperPage.com . 2007-09-14.
3. Web site: Baghdad State Mosque (Design). Archnet. 2023-11-25.
4. Encyclopedia: Zachwatowicz, Jan. Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. 2007-05-12. pl. https://web.archive.org/web/20110607135614/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3999755. 2011-06-07. dead.