From Moshe Safdie & Associates:
Moshe Safdie first established his architectural practice in 1964 in Montreal to design and supervise the construction of Habitat ’67. Today the principal office is in Boston, Massachusetts with branch offices in Jerusalem and Toronto. The firm provides a full range of urban planning and architectural services, as well as interior design. Currently, the firm is engaged in activities ranging from the design of public institutions—including museums, performing arts centers, libraries, and university campuses—to the design of airports, housing, mixed-use complexes, and new communities.
Major completed projects include the Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem.; the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah; the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Cairnhill Condominiums in Singapore; the Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego; the Lester B. Pearson International Airport Terminal, Toronto, Ontario; Exploration Place Science Center and Children’s Museum, Wichita, Kansas; the Mamilla Hilton Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel; the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California; Vancouver Library Square and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia; Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts; the World Union Cultural Center at Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem; Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario; the Harvard Business School’s Morgan Hall and the Class of 1959 Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Projects currently under construction include the New City of Modi’in, Israel; the Federal Courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts; the Khalsa/National Museum of the Sikhs, Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India; the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv; and the Federal Building in Washington, D.C.
Major projects currently in design include Marina Bay Sands in Singapore; the United States Institute of Peace Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; the National Campus for Archeology of Israel in Jerusalem; the Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center in Kansas City, Missouri; the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
The firm has won numerous awards for its designs, including the Governor General’s Medal for Architecture of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1992) and the Prix d’Excellence en Architecture by the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (1988) for the Québec Museum of Civilization; the Rechter Prize of the Association of Architects and City Planners of Israel (1982) for the Hosh Complex; the Urban Design Concept Award by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1980) for Coldspring New Town; and the Massey Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1967) for Habitat ‘67.
