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.

October 21 - The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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.

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.

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)

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