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Habitat 67, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
1967
Habitat 67 Photo © Timothy Hursley
Habitat 67
Corrour Lodge, Loch Ossian, Highlands, Scotland, UK
2003
Moshe Safdie Architects in association with né Begg
Corrour Lodge image by Moshe Safdie Architects / Morris and Steedman Associates
Corrour Lodge
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Yitzak Rabin Centre for Israeli Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel
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US Institute of Peace, the Mall, Washington DC, USA
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Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport expansion, Toronto, Canada
2007
McGill University Health Centre Glen Campus
Marina Bay Sands, Marina Bay, Singapore
2006-
with Aedas Architects
photo : Tom Ravenscroft
Marina Bay Sands
Performing Arts Center, Kansas, USA
2006
$326m
Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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photo © Timothy Hursley
Holocaust History Museum, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
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photo © Timothy Hursley
Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India
photo © Ram Rahman
Moshe Safdie Architect - Background
Safdie was born in 1938, Haifa, Israel. Safdie received a Bachelor of Architecture with honors in 1961 from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
photo from RIAS 2002 for Conference
Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc., Architects and Planners.
Moshe though born in Israel later moved to Canada with his family. After apprenticing with Louis Kahn, Architect, in Philadelphia, Safdie returned to Montreal, taking charge of the master plan for the 1967 World Exhibition, where he also realized Habitat '67, the central feature of the World's Fair, Canada.
Key Buildings:
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Skirball Museum & Cultural Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego, USA
Springfield Civic Buildings, Massachusetts, USA
Performing Arts Centre, Kansas City, USA
Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada
Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Salt Lake City Main Public Library, Utah, USA
Exploration Place, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square Salem, Massachusetts, USA
United States Institute of Peace Headquarters, Washington D.C., USA
National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Central Library - Renovation and expansion, Philadelphia, USA
Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex - national museum of the Sikh people, Punjab, India
American Buildings
Practice Information
Moshe Safdie
Principal Office: Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1978-
Branch Offices: Jerusalem, Israel 1970- ; Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1988-
Israel Architecture
Books by Moshe Safdie
'Beyond Habitat' (1970)
'For Everyone a Garden' (1974)
'Form and Purpose' (1982)
'Jerusalem: The Future of the Past' (1989)
'The City After the Automobile' (1997)
'Moshe Safdie' (1996)
'Moshe Safdie II' (2009)
Films by Moshe Safdie
'The Sound of the Carceri', about Bach and Piranesi, with Yo-Yo Ma, directed by Francois Girard (1997)
'Coldspring New Town' (National Film Board of Canada, 1973)
'The Innocent Door' (National Film Board of Canada, 1973)
Corrour Lodge photograph from Morris and Steedman Associates
Moshe Safdie with Allan Murray Architects : Aberdeen University Library entry
Canadian Architect
World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe
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