Moshe Safdie

Born 1938 · Israeli-Canadian-American · 15 buildings on the wall

Moshe Safdie (born 1938) is an architect and urban planner, born in Haifa and a citizen of Canada, Israel and the United States, known for socially responsible design in housing, memorials and large public buildings. His first building, Habitat 67 in Montreal, grew out of his master's thesis at McGill University, and he apprenticed with Louis Kahn. He received the Wolf Prize in Architecture in 2019.

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Habitat 67 (1967), built for that year's World's Fair, stacks 354 identical prefabricated concrete units into three pyramids up to 12 storeys high, so that each home has a garden terrace on the roof of the one below. At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Children's Memorial (1987) is a mirrored room that reflects the light of five candles, and the Holocaust History Museum (2005) is a triangular concrete prism cut through the hill and lit by a 200-metre skylight. In Singapore, Marina Bay Sands (2010) joins three hotel towers with a 340-metre SkyPark, and Jewel Changi Airport (2019) surrounds the world's tallest indoor waterfall with a terraced forest. Moshe Safdie's projects are studied for density, landscape and daylight at a large scale.

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