# 2023 in architecture

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.

### Poland

* Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, projected for completion

### 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 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 –
* 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 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 20 - Rob Krier, 85, Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, and urban designer (b. 1938)