2023 in architecture
The year 2023 in architecture involves 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

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, projected for completion

Poland
 Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw in 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
 June – Factory International arts venue in Manchester, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; lead architect Ellen van Loon) opening in summer. 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

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 –
 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)

See also
Timeline of architecture

References

 
2023-related lists
21st-century architecture