1963 in architecture

• October 28 – Work begins on demolition of Pennsylvania Station (New York City), surface buildings designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1910, a key influence on the historic preservation movement. • Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin. • Work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun. • Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives. • The avant-garde architectural collective Archigram stages the Living Cities exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened , Douro river, Portugal , Germany • February – Springs Mills Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. • March 7 – MetLife Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth. • June 22 – Arrábida Bridge, Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso. • October 15 – Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun. • November – Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Max Abramovitz. Buildings completed in Kobe, Japan • St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer. • Großer Sendesaal (concert hall) of Hanover Broadcast Station in West Germany, designed by Dieter Oesterlen. • Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.) • Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners. • Alexander Fleming House, Blocks A-C, at Elephant and Castle in London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger. • Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden. • University of Leicester Engineering Building, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan. • Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd. • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. • Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun. • Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California. • Exxon Building in Houston, Texas. • Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer. • Jamaraat Bridge, Mina, Saudi Arabia. • Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan. • Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project. • Sadovnichesky Bridge, Vodootvodny Canal, Moscow. ==Awards==

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • AIA Gold Medal – Alvar Aalto • RAIA Gold Medal – Arthur Stephenson • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Holford • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Jean-Louis Girodet ==Publications==

• John Summerson – The Classical Language of Architecture (BBC). ==Births==

• October 16 – Filipe Oliveira Dias, Portuguese architect and writer • October 17 – Alejandro Zaera Polo, Spanish architect and teacher • June 24 – Benedetta Tagliabue, Italian architect based in Barcelona ==Deaths==

• February 11 – Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (born 1901) • February 21 – Philip Hepworth, English architect (born 1890) • March 17 – Adalberto Libera, Italian modernist architect (born 1903) • March 22 – Herbert James Rowse, English architect working in Liverpool (born 1887) • April 5 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890) • April 23 – Adrian Gilbert Scott, English church architect, grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott (born 1901) ==References==