1983 in architecture

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.
• October 15 - The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta opens
• October 21 - The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

Burrell Collection interior

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.
• Miami Center, in Miami, Florida.
• 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.
• 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)
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)