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Safdie Architects

Shaping the Public Realm

We create meaningful and vital public spaces that serve as catalysts for a vibrant public life in cities around the world.

Responding to the Essence of Place

Our buildings are rooted in the geographic and cultural vitality of their context.

Fitness to Purpose

Every element in each of our designs expresses and advances the building’s purpose.

Working with Nature and Resources

We design buildings that are sensitive to the climate, geography, and culture of their settings.

Inherently Buildable

We find elegant solutions that are simultaneously visually intriguing and inherently rational.

Humanizing the Megascale

We have pioneered a new urban vision to enhance the quality of life for the rapidly densifying 21st century world.

Creating Communities

Our buildings create communities, fostering engagement and connection not previously achievable in dense urban centers.

Rising to the Symbolic

We embrace the responsibility of creating buildings whose symbolism captures and expresses a deeper purpose.

Safdie Architects

Shaping the Public Realm

We create meaningful and vital public spaces that serve as catalysts for a vibrant public life in cities around the world.

Responding to the Essence of Place

Our buildings are rooted in the geographic and cultural vitality of their context.

Fitness to Purpose

Every element in each of our designs expresses and advances the building’s purpose.

Working with Nature and Resources

We design buildings that are sensitive to the climate, geography, and culture of their settings.

Inherently Buildable

We find elegant solutions that are simultaneously visually intriguing and inherently rational.

Humanizing the Megascale

We have pioneered a new urban vision to enhance the quality of life for the rapidly densifying 21st century world.

Creating Communities

Our buildings create communities, fostering engagement and connection not previously achievable in dense urban centers.

Rising to the Symbolic

We embrace the responsibility of creating buildings whose symbolism captures and expresses a deeper purpose.

Media

Bloomberg | Can the U.S. Build Big Again?:
In response to President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law, Moshe Safdie asserts that to achieve major, consequential projects, the U.S. must change its approach – particularly in three conspicuous ways. In a call-to-action, Safdie concludes: “Our future record on infrastructure will be a verdict on ourselves.”

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ArchDaily | Compact Bigness: How Safdie Architects Realize Megaprojects Without a Mega Office:
When it comes to the way Safdie Architects runs its operations, the firm is somewhat of a unicorn. Sara Kolata interviews Partners Chris Mulvey and Sean Scensor about their approach to business and project implementation.

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For Everyone A Garden:
A film created by Shifting Vision spotlights Moshe Safdie's relationship with nature and how his connection with the garden has evolved throughout his architectural practice.

Events

Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Option Studio Spring 2022:
Revisiting Moshe Safdie's 1971 Newsweek article, The Shape of Things to Come, Moshe Safdie and Jaron Lubin lead a Spring Option Studio for Harvard's Graduate School of Design that probes into the future of the urban environment. The studio explores the role of the architect to help shape the built environment towards solving the challenges of humanity.

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CNN | Striking Architecture Projects Set to Shape the World in 2022
Completing in Spring 2022, Qorner Tower in Quito, Ecuador is featured in CNN's Annual Architecture Lookahead, highlighting nine striking architecture projects set to shape the world in 2022.

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A City Set Sail:
The story of the building of Raffles City Chongqing. With total access to the teams responsible for bringing the development to life, the film is a portrait of human ingenuity, persistence, and pushing the limits of what is possible in the fields of building, architecture and city planning.
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