1983 in architecture

The year 1983 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, AK, United States, is completed.
• The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan is completed.
• Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas, United States is completed.
• Williams Tower/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas, United States is completed.
• ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas is completed.
• The Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia, United States is completed.
• Trump Tower in New York, United States is completed.
• Pasilan linkkitorni in Helsinki, Finland is completed.
• One Cleveland Center in Cleveland, Ohio is completed.
• Eaton Center in Cleveland, Ohio is completed.
• Miami Center, in Miami, Florida is completed.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Nathaniel Alexander Owings.
• Architecture Firm Award - Holabird & Root.
• Pritzker Prize - I. M. Pei.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Gilbert Nicol and Ross Chisholm.
• Royal Gold Medal - Norman Foster.
• Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

Deaths

• July 1 - Richard Buckminster Fuller (born 1895)
• 12 June - Clemens Holzmeister (born 1886)
• August 18 - Nikolaus Pevsner (born 1902)fr:1983 en architecture