The year2013 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

• March 1 – The first phase of theOld Port of Marseille renewal is inaugurated.^[1][2]
• March 28 –Paradise Center, inSofia, the largest shopping mall inBulgaria.
• April 13 – TheRijksmuseum inAmsterdam reopens its doors after a 10-year restoration and renovation project.
• April 24 – The late-11th-century minaret of theGreat Mosque of Aleppo is destroyed duringSyrian civil war fighting.
• May 10 –One World Trade Center becomesthe tallest building in the United States andthe third-tallest building in the world by pinnacle height (not yet complete).
• June 12 – TheBerlin City Palacefoundation stone laying ceremony is held in Berlin. The building is expected to be completed in 2019.^[3]
• July 11 – Work begins on aLego model ofDurham Cathedral in England, the beginning of a huge fund-raising effort.^[4]
• August 3 – TheShanghai Tower,topping out ceremony is held inShanghai. Thetallest building in China andthe second-tallest in the world is expected to be completed in 2015.
• October – The sixthWorld Architecture Festival is held in Singapore.
• November 12 – The Height Committee of theChicago-basedCouncil on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) makes the controversial^[5] announcement that One World Trade Center is thetallest building in the United States at 1,776 feet, declaring that the mast on top of the building is a spire since it is a permanent part of the building's architecture.^[6][7]

Bulgaria

• September –Dorkovo Museum.

Chile

• Gran Torre Santiago, the second tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere, is completed.

Denmark

• March – New building for theNational Aquarium Denmark, designed by3XN, inCopenhagen.

France

• June 1 –Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations national museum inMarseille, in theSouth of France, designed byRudy Ricciotti.

Germany

• May – Extension toLenbachhaus art museum, designed byFoster and Partners, inMunich.

Mexico

• November 19 –Museo Júmex,Mexico City, designed byDavid Chipperfield.

New Zealand

• August 2 –Cardboard Cathedral inChristchurch, designed byShigeru Ban withWarren and Mahoney.

Norway

• February 10 –Northern Lights Cathedral inAlta, designed by Link Arkitektur withSchmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.

Poland

• April 19 –Museum of the History of Polish Jews, designed byRainer Mahlamäki, inWarsaw.

Singapore

• The Sandcrawler – designed byAedas.

Turkey

• Sancaklar Mosque inBüyükçekmece, Istanbul, designed byEmre Arolat.
• October 29 – TheMarmaray rail tunnel under theBosphorus strait, the world's deepest underseaimmersed tube tunnel,Istanbul.

United Kingdom

• February 1 –Bishop Edward King Chapel atRipon College Cuddesdon inOxfordshire, England, designed byNíall McLaughlin Architects, is dedicated.^[8][9]
• March –Number One Riverside civic offices inRochdale, designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, opens to the public.^[10]
• April – The Shed temporary auditorium for theNational Theatre on theSouth Bank in London, byHaworth Tompkins.^[11]
• May 30 –Mary Rose Museum, designed byWilkinson Eyre Architects andPerkins+Will, atPortsmouth Historic Dockyard in England.
• June 28 – Scale Lane Bridge overRiver Hull in the UK, designed by McDowell+Benedetti with engineers Alan Baxter Associates and Qualter Hall.^[12]
• September 3 –Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in theUnited Kingdom, designed byMecanoo.^[13]
• September 30 –SSE Hydro arena inGlasgow, Scotland, designed byFoster and Partners.

United States

• January –James B. Hunt Jr. Library the main library ofCentennial Campus of North Carolina State University, designed bySnøhetta, inRaleigh, North Carolina.
• April 25 – TheGeorge W. Bush Presidential Center inDallas,Texas.
• November 27 –Kimbell Art Museum expansion, named the Renzo Piano Pavilion, designed byRenzo Piano, inFort Worth,Texas, is officially inaugurated.
• December 4 –Pérez Art Museum Miami, designed byHerzog & de Meuron, in Miami.^[14]

Australia

• One Central Park, design byFoster and Partners,Ateliers Jean Nouvel andPTW Architects.

China

• Chongqing Art Museum, designed by China Architecture Design & Research Group.

Russia

• Mercury City Tower, inMoscow, thetallest building in Europe.

United Arab Emirates

• June 10 –Cayan Tower in Dubai Marina, the world's tallest tower featuring a 90-degree twist.

United Kingdom

• December 18 –Stonehenge Visitor Centre,Wiltshire, England, designed byDenton Corker Marshall.^[15]
• Burntwood School inWandsworth (London), byAllford Hall Monaghan Morris.^[16]
• Tate Britain renovation in London, byCaruso St John.^[17]

United States

• November 13 –Four World Trade Center,New York City.
• unknown date –One Madison residential condominium tower in New York City, designed byCetraRuddy.^[18]

• AIAArchitecture Firm Award –Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
• AIA Gold Medal –Thom Mayne^[19]
• Emporis Skyscraper Award –The Shard designed byRenzo Piano
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – TheHarpa concert hall in Reykjavík byHenning Larsen Architects^[20]
• Driehaus Architecture Prize forNew Classical Architecture –Thomas H. Beeby
• Lawrence Israel Prize –Roman and Williams
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner –archi5
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –David Chipperfield
• Pritzker Architecture Prize –Toyo Ito.^[21]
• Reed Award for classical architecture commitment –David Watkin^[22]
• RAIA Gold Medal –Peter Wilson
• RIBARoyal Gold Medal –Peter Zumthor^[23]
• Stirling Prize – Witherford Watson Mann Architects for refurbishment ofAstley Castle inNorth Warwickshire, England (2012)^[24]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –Laurie Olin
• Twenty-five Year Award byAIA –Renzo Piano forMenil Collection

• June 15 untilSeptember 23 –Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes atMuseum of Modern Art inNew York City^[25]

• January 5 –Bruce McCarty, American architect (born1920)
• January 7 –Ada Louise Huxtable, American architecture critic (The New York Times) (born1921)
• February 25 –Heikki Siren, Finnish architect (born1918)
• March 7 –Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (born1920)
• April 9 –Paolo Soleri, Italian architect (born1919)
• April 11
  • Ram Karmi, Israeli architect (born1931)
  • Clorindo Testa, Italian-born Argentine architect and artist (born1923)
• April 16 –Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect (born1919)
• April 20 –Rick Mather, American-born UK-based architect (born1937)
• June 18 –Colin Stansfield Smith, British architect and academic (born1932)
• June 22 – , Danish architect (born1925)
• October 30 –Anca Petrescu, Romanian architect and politician (born1949)
• November 13 –Roland Paoletti, British architect (born1931)
• December 5 –Fred Bassetti, American architect (born1917)

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