The year 2013 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings opened
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Singapore
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- February 1 – Bishop Edward King Chapel at Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is dedicated.[8][9]
- March – Number One Riverside civic offices in Rochdale, designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, opens to the public.[10]
- April – The Shed temporary auditorium for the National Theatre on the South Bank in London, by Haworth Tompkins.[11]
- May 30 – Mary Rose Museum, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Perkins+Will, at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in England.
- June 28 – Scale Lane Bridge over River 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 the United Kingdom, designed by Mecanoo.[13]
- September 30 – SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland, designed by Foster and Partners.
- United States
- January – James B. Hunt Jr. Library the main library of Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University, designed by Snøhetta, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- April 25 – The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.
- November 27 – Kimbell Art Museum expansion, named the Renzo Piano Pavilion, designed by Renzo Piano, in Fort Worth, Texas, is officially inaugurated.
- December 4 – Pérez Art Museum Miami, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, in Miami.[14]
Buildings completed
- Australia
- China
- Russia
- United Arab Emirates
- June 10 – Cayan Tower in Dubai Marina, the world's tallest tower featuring a 90-degree twist.
- United Kingdom
- United States
- January 5 – Bruce McCarty, American architect (born 1920)
- January 7 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American architecture critic (The New York Times) (born 1921)
- February 25 – Heikki Siren, Finnish architect (born 1918)
- March 7 – Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (born 1920)
- April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian architect (born 1919)
- April 11
- April 16 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect (born 1919)
- April 20 – Rick Mather, American-born UK-based architect (born 1937)
- June 18 – Colin Stansfield Smith, British architect and academic (born 1932)
- June 22 – , Danish architect (born 1925)
- October 30 – Anca Petrescu, Romanian architect and politician (born 1949)
- November 13 – Roland Paoletti, British architect (born 1931)
- December 5 – Fred Bassetti, American architect (born 1917)