1983 in architecture

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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 Centre in Toronto, Ontario is completed.
• Miami Center, in Miami, Florida is completed.
• The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland is completed

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.

Births

Deaths

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