1973 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• 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 in Bristol, England, designed by R. J. Weeks with F. S. Jennett and A. Poremba of the Percy Thomas Partnership.
• July 19 – National Stadium, Singapore.
• 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.
• October 30 – Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey.
• 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

  Buildings completed

• May – Sears Tower, Chicago, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
• September 4 – First Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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• * 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.
• * Großgaststätte Ahornblatt, Berlin, Germany.
• * Harvard Science Center at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
• * IDS Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• * Boyana Residence, Sofia, designed by Alexander Barov.
• * Underhill, Holme, West Yorkshire, England, designed by Arthur Quarmby.
• * 29 Lansdowne Crescent, London, designed by Jeremy Lever.
• * Kiev TV Tower in Kiev, Ukraine.
• * Mala Rijeka Viaduct, Podgorica, Montenegro.
• * Royal Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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.

  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
• June 14 – Clifford Percy Evans, American architect
• June 27 – Odd Nansen, Norwegian architect, author, and humanitarian
• September 20 – Leslie Wilkinson, Australian architect
• December 8 – Paul Bartholomew, American architect