14 of the Most Foreseen Architecture Projects to Keep an Eye on in 2023

We can still feel the daunting effect of Covid-19 on delaying several architecture projects. However, there will be significant remembrances to celebrate worldwide in 2023. This year’s list is characteristically diverse, highlighting some of the values and areas of focus that guide our work.

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2023 Most Awaited Architecture Projects

Whether it’s the world’s second-tallest tower or an interdisciplinary religious structure in Abu Dhabi, 2023 promises to be a year of astonishing new openings. Here are nine architecture projects that will shape the globe in 2023:

1) Hotel Claremont, Melbourne, Australia

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Melbourne’s historic Hotel Claremont is at the top of the list for opening buildings in 2023. SOM is reinventing the iconic hotel as a mixed-use centerpiece for a vibrant retail area. The project incorporates a thorough restoration of the building’s 19th-century facade and an 11-story expansion that will provide contemporary workspaces while sensitively combining old and new features.

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2) Kaohsiung Station, Kaohsiung, China

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The upcoming Kaohsiung Station is the apex of the enormous Kaohsiung Metropolitan Area Underground Railway Project, which will be a true transportation hub incorporating rail, metro, local and interstate bus services, taxis, and bicycles.

The station’s multi-layered landscape, with a bike route running east-west on top, introduces a substantial quantity of public space into the city center. The station, designed as a destination rather than just a transportation hub, provides a wide range of amenities to the local population and visitors.

3) Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre, China

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The Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre will be completed this year atop an artificial lake in Zhuhai, southern China. Its location on the water will not be its only distinguishing feature. It will also include a spectacular roofscape inspired by migratory bird patterns covering its four wings, a museum of art, a theatre, a research facility, and a multifunctional hall.

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4) High Line – Moynihan Train Hall Connector, New York

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Another magnificent new building by SOM, developed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations, this new connection provides a linear park in two segments linked at a right angle, each with its distinct design. The Timber Bridge, a truss built of sustainably produced glulam timber, exemplifies the structural potential of this low-carbon material. The Woodland Bridge connects to this bridge at a right angle and provides a tree-lined entrance into the High Line’s complete greenery setting.

5) Lola Mora Cultural Center, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina

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The Lola Mora Cultural Center, located in a woodland overlooking the city of San Salvador de Jujuy in northwest Argentina, pays tribute to the same name sculptor, one of the early twentieth century’s leading female artists. The museum will have an interpretive center, restaurant, library, and atelier for visiting artists, in addition to a selection of her works.

Architects Pelli Clarke & Partners classify the facility as “net-zero energy. Only with the help of on-site solar panels and wind energy generation is the center predicted to produce 20% more energy than it consumes.

6) The Pyramid of Tirana, Albania

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MVRDV has numerous projects scheduled for delivery in 2023, one of which is refurbishing a brutalist 1980s pyramid in Tirana. The crumbling structure, renowned as The Pyramid of Tirana, will reemerge as a youth center with free cafes, studios, and courses for young Albanians.

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7) Geelong Arts Centre, Australia

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The Geelong Arts Centre’s last stage of redevelopment will include a new 500-seat theatre and a variety of flexible arts, performance, and general community-use facilities. The design by ARM Architecture consists of a grooved exterior styled like traditional theatrical curtains.

The calliope inspires a concrete canopy over the entryway – a melodic circus wagon – and the concrete walls will recall Geelong’s old Lascelles wool store.

8) Masaryčka Building, Prague, Czech Republic

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Another masterpiece in 2023 opening buildings will be the Masaryka Building in Prague, built by the world-renowned architecture group Zaha Hadid Architects. The new urban development is currently being constructed near the city’s Masaryk Railway Station. The 28,000-square-metre structure features overhanging offices as well as terraced roof gardens.

It corporates seven floors in its eastern section and nine levels in its western edge, adding new public spaces within a vital commercial center.

9) Red Sea International Airport, Saudi Arabia

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The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) is building Foster + Partners’ new Red Sea International Airport in Saudi Arabia as part of The Red Sea Project, which is developing a network of 90 occupant islands along Saudi Arabia’s west coast. The new airport will open to the public in 2023.

Informed by the natural beauty of the surrounding area, the five fluid dune-shaped roofs will construct the airport itself in a radial structure, alluding to the colors and patterns of the vast desert.

10) The Spiral, USA

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The project’s name, which was first disclosed in 2015, refers to the spiraling ribbon of terraces covered in plants that extend from the building’s base to its summit, giving each floor access to the outside environment. In New York, the much-anticipated opening of The Spiral, a 65-story skyscraper designed by BIG, will mark the arrival of coronavirus vaccine manufacturer Pfizer’s new global headquarters, marking its celebration as the 13th tallest building in New York.

11) Abrahamic Family House, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Although about 80% of the UAE’s population is Muslim, the three Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) are given equal weight at Abu Dhabi’s new interreligious campus. The project’s mosque, synagogue, and church stand in imaginative harmony, occupying three indistinguishably cubic forms on a “secular” tourist pavilion.

Although each of the three main buildings has a different orientation on the site, Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye’s firm, Adjaye Associates, claimed it looked at the connections of the faiths in its designs.

In addition to providing places of prayer, the complex aims to promote intercultural communication. To that aim, a fourth area — an educational center — will be a place for all people of kindness to unite together.

12) Merdeka 118, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Behind Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, Merdeka 118 is currently the second-tallest structure in the world, rising over 2,227 feet over Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The triangular glass planes on the building’s front were inspired by patterns seen in Malaysian artworks, according to the Australian architecture firm behind the project, Fender Katsalidis.

The building and the enormous mall incorporated at its base are set to launch in the second half of 2023, featuring about 1 million square feet of retail space, a 1,000-seat theatre, offices, a hotel, and Southeast Asia’s largest viewing platform.

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13) Sub-Center Library, China

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The Sub-Center Library in Beijing is one of Snøhetta’s most fascinating new buildings, intended to give visitors the impression that they are inside a jungle canopy. Dozens of thin pillars will encircle the hill-shaped seats, branching out at the top of the building to mimic the leaves of a ginkgo tree, a plant native to China that dates back 290 million years.

14) Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo

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The third building on the list is the coming Buffalo AKG Art Museum, previously the Albright-Knox Art Galler), designed by OMA New York Partner Shohei Shigematsu and set to open to the public on May 25, 2023. The new museum, developed in partnership with executive architect Cooper Robertson, will be alongside the city’s famed Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Delaware Park.

The museum will cover a total of 2,787 square meters. It will house unique exhibitions, the museum’s prominent modern and contemporary art inventory, and significant renovations to the institution’s existing historic structures.