1983 in architecture
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The year 1983 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings opened
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
- ↑ Merzagora, Eugenio A. (ed.). "Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (499-200 m)". Norske bruer og viadukter. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ "Pasilan linkkitorni". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
- ↑ "Zachwatowicz, Jan". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-05-12.
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