1973 in architecture

The year 1973 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

Sydney Opera House

• February 14 – Vicksburg Bridge over the Mississippi River, United States.
• April 4 – The World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
• May 10 – General Belgrano Bridge, over the Paraná River, Argentina.
• June 29 – Clifton Cathedral (Roman Catholic) in Bristol, England, designed by R. J. Weeks with F. S. Jennett and A. Poremba of the Percy Thomas Partnership.^[1]
• July 19 – National Stadium, Singapore.^[2]
• September – Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, designed by Karl Henrik Nøstvik.
• October 20 – Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, designed by Jørn Utzon.
• The Aon Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States, originally known as the Standard Oil Building.
• Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, becomes the tallest building in the world.
• Uris Hall at Cornell University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill^[3]

Buildings completed

• May – Sears Tower, Chicago, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
• September 4 – First Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• date unknown
  • Alpha Tower, Birmingham, England, designed by George Marsh of Richard Seifert & Partners.
  • The Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, becomes the tallest building in South Africa and in Africa (1973–present).
  • Großgaststätte Ahornblatt, Berlin, Germany (demolished in 2000).
  • Harvard Science Center at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
  • IDS Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Boyana Residence, Sofia (later National Historical Museum (Bulgaria)), designed by Alexander Barov.
  • Underhill (underground residence), Holme, West Yorkshire, England, designed by Arthur Quarmby.^[4]
  • 29​¹⁄₂ Lansdowne Crescent, London (infill residence), designed by Jeremy Lever.^[5]
  • Kiev TV Tower in Kiev, Ukraine.
  • Mala Rijeka Viaduct, Podgorica, Montenegro.
  • Royal Centre (Vancouver) in Vancouver, Canada
  • Empire Landmark Hotel in Vancouver
  • Granville Square in Vancouver
  • Tour Montparnasse in Paris, France, designed by Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien.
  • Tower 2 of the Meritus Mandarin Singapore in Singapore.
  • Cromwell Tower in London, England.
  • Le Pyramide market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Rinaldo Olivieri.
  • Zagreb TV Tower in Zagreb, Croatia..

Events

• Vladimir Somov designs the Fyodor Dostoyevsky Theater of Dramatic Art for Veliky Novgorod.^[6]

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Louis Kahn
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Hakon Ahlberg
• Architecture Firm Award – Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
• Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France – Kenzo Tange
• RAIA Gold Medal – Jørn Utzon
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Leslie Martin
• AIA Twenty-five Year Award – Taliesin West

Births

• January 24 – Eero Endjärv, Estonian architect
• date unknown – Zahava Elenberg, Australian architect

Deaths

• January 22 – Stanisław Staszewski, Polish architect and poet (born 1925)
• June 14 – Clifford Percy Evans, American architect (born 1889)
• June 27 – Odd Nansen, Norwegian architect, author, and humanitarian (born 1901)
• September 20 – Leslie Wilkinson, Australian architect (born 1882)
• December 8 – Paul Bartholomew, American architect (born 1883)^[7]

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