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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

Dezeen | Albert Einstein Education and Research Center
Safdie Architects has oriented a medical centre in Brazil around a massive atrium with a glass ceiling that was designed to evoke "the feeling of being under a tree canopy".

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.”

Media

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.

Media

The Globe and Mail | For Moshe Safdie, social responsibility in design comes naturally
In anticipation for Shifting Vision's film, For Everyone a Garden, Moshe Safdie sits down with journalist David Israelson to reflect on the role of nature in his designs.

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.

Media

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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