1983 in architecture

Buildings opened , Caracas, Venezuela • April 19 – Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, designed by Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel completed. • May 1 – Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria. • October 15 – The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. • October 21 – The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson. Buildings completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in Bratislava, Slovakia • The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska. • The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan. • Western Canadian Place in Calgary, Alberta • 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. • Manulife Place in Edmonton, Alberta • Miami Center in Miami, Florida. • High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Richard Meier, • 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. • Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford, England, designed by Richard MacCormac. • Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina. • Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, Marne-la-Vallée, France, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Buildings designed • Baghdad State Mosque (Iraq), designed by Rasem Badran; never built. ==Awards==

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Zlatko Ugljen, for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko. • 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) • Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898) ==References==