The year 2023 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events July 23 – The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa is severely damaged in a Russian missile attack on the city. September 1 – Muyiwa Oki takes office as the youngest and first black president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Buildings and structures
China Zhongshuge bookstore in Huai'an, designed by X+ Living Architectural Design
Egypt Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, projected for completion
Malaysia Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, the second-tallest structure and the second-tallest building in the world, designed by Fender Katsalidis in association with RSP KL, officially opened on 10 January 2024.
Saudi Arabia Red Sea International Airport designed by Foster + Partners, projected for completion
United Kingdom Factory International (Aviva Studios) arts venue in Manchester, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; lead architect Ellen van Loon) opened officially on 18 October (previews from June)
United States Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York, projected for completion The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City designed by Studio Gang opened to the public on May 4 Vici Properties finishes construction of the sphere, the largest sphere in the world in Las Vegas, Nevada
Awards AIA Gold Medal – Carol Ross Barney Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ben Pentreath Pritzker Architecture Prize – David Chipperfield RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Yasmeen Lari RAIA Gold Medal – Kirstin Thompson RIBA House of the Year – Green House, Tottenham, London, designed by Hayhurst & Co Stirling Prize – Mæ for John Morden Centre, Blackheath, London
Exhibitions Venice Biennale of Architecture: 20 May – 26 November Copenhagen Architecture Festival x FILM: 1 – 11 June
Deaths January 1 – Ron Labinski, 85, American stadium architect (b. 1937) January 6 – William S.W. Lim, 90, Singaporean architect (b. 1932) January 7 – József Finta, 88, Hungarian architect (b. 1935) January 12 – Vittorio Garatti, 95, Italian architect (b. 1927) January 24 – Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, 95, Indian architect, Pritzker Prize winner (2018) (b. 1927) January 31 – Graham Winteringham, 99, English architect (Crescent Theatre) (b. 1923) (death announced on this date) February 13 – Robert Geddes, 99, American architect, dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture (1965–1982) (b. 1923) February 17 – Peter Muller, 95, Australian architect (b. 1927) March 2 – Rafael Viñoly, 78, Uruguayan-born architect (b. 1944) May 30 – Paolo Portoghesi, 91, Italian architect (Mosque of Rome) (b. 1931) June 17 – Sir Michael Hopkins, 88, English architect (Portcullis House) (b. 1935) July 17 – Bruno Flierl, 96, German architect (b. 1927) August 7 – Jean-Louis Cohen, French architect and architectural historian (b. 1949) August 13 – Thierry Despont, 75, French architect and interior designer (b. 1948) September 12 – Roser Amadó, 79, Spanish architect (La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou) (b. 1944) September 15 – Claude Cormier, 63, Canadian landscape architect (b. 1960) October 1 – Beverly Willis, American architect (San Francisco Ballet Building) (b. 1928) October 3 – Harriet Pattison, American landscape architect (b. 1928) October 17 – George Baird, 84, Canadian architect (Cloud Gardens, Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory) (b. 1939) October 21 – N. John Habraken, 94, Dutch architect, educator, and theorist of user participation in housing (b. 1928) November 1 – Jonathan Hill, 65, English architect and architectural historian (b. 1958) November 6 – Antoni Martí, 60, Andorran architect and politician (b. 1963) November 9 – Juha Leiviskä, 87, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1936) November 14 – Stanislav Žalud, 91, Czech architect and politician (b. 1932) November 18 – Jerome Markson, 94, Canadian architect (b. 1929) November 20 – Rob Krier, 85, Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, and urban designer (b. 1938) December 2 – Felo García, 95, Costa Rican footballer, painter, and architect (b. 1928) December 9 – Gene Aubry, 88, American architect (b. 1935) December 13 – Hermann Brede, 100, German architect (b. 1923) December 19 – Bryan Thomas, 95, English architect (b. 1928) December 25 – Pamela Cluff, 92, British-born Canadian architect (b. 1931)
See also Timeline of architecture
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