2023 in architecture

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

• Zhongshuge bookstore in Huai'an, designed by X+ Living Architectural Design

• Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, projected for completion

• 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.

• Red Sea International Airport designed by Foster + Partners, projected for completion

• Factory International arts venue in Manchester, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture opened officially on 18 October

• 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
• January 6 – William S.W. Lim, 90, Singaporean architect
• January 7 – József Finta, 88, Hungarian architect
• January 12 – Vittorio Garatti, 95, Italian architect
• January 24 – Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, 95, Indian architect, Pritzker Prize winner
• January 31 – Graham Winteringham, 99, English architect
• February 13 – Robert Geddes, 99, American architect, dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture
• February 17 – Peter Muller, 95, Australian architect
• March 2 – Rafael Viñoly, 78, Uruguayan-born architect
• May 30 – Paolo Portoghesi, 91, Italian architect
• June 17 – Sir Michael Hopkins, 88, English architect
• July 17 – Bruno Flierl, 96, German architect
• August 7 – Jean-Louis Cohen, French architect and architectural historian
• August 13 – Thierry Despont, 75, French architect and interior designer
• September 12 – Roser Amadó, 79, Spanish architect
• September 15 – Claude Cormier, 63, Canadian landscape architect
• October 1 – Beverly Willis, American architect
• October 3 – Harriet Pattison, American landscape architect
• October 17 – George Baird, 84, Canadian architect
• October 21 – N. John Habraken, 94, Dutch architect, educator, and theorist of user participation in housing
• November 1 – Jonathan Hill, 65, English architect and architectural historian
• November 6 – Antoni Martí, 60, Andorran architect and politician
• November 9 – Juha Leiviskä, 87, Finnish architect and designer
• November 14 – Stanislav Žalud, 91, Czech architect and politician
• November 18 – Jerome Markson, 94, Canadian architect
• November 20 – Rob Krier, 85, Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, and urban designer
• December 2 – Felo García, 95, Costa Rican footballer, painter, and architect
• December 9 – Gene Aubry, 88, American architect
• December 13 – Hermann Brede, 100, German architect
• December 19 – Bryan Thomas, 95, English architect
• December 25 – Pamela Cluff, 92, British-born Canadian architect