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World-renowned architect, Moshe Safdie, designed the United States Institute of Peace headquarters, opening this fall in Washington D.C. The building has an atrium view directed toward the Lincoln Memorial. The roofline, sheathed with curvilinear shapes, billows upward like the fluttering wings of a dove. Safdie has been honored with the moniker 'global citizen' for creating humane spaces around the world. Courtesy of Timothy Hursley/Safdie Architects
“Safdie is himself a global citizen [holding triple citizenship in Israel, Canada, and the US], and he really has a huge, global practice,” according to Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. Courtesy of Safdie Architects
Golden Dream Bay, a residential complex in the beachfront city of Qinhuangdao, China, east of Beijing, is viewed from the south. Safdie is now fulfilling his lifelong desire to mitigate dehumanizing megascale residences in a 6 million-square-foot residential complex. The radically original shape of the clustered towers equips 2,200 condo units with gardens, balconies, natural light, and shared recreational facilities. Courtesy of Safdie Architects
The view from a residential terrace at Golden Dream Bay. This “habitat of the future” features 15-story-high “urban windows” – voids that frame vistas instead of blocking views. By offering high quality-of-life dwellings in a congested area, “We’re actually cracking the middle income housing syndrome of big-scale, family housing in a dense, urban setting,” Safdie says. Courtesy of Safdie Architects
An aerial view of the model of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. Alice Walton, founder of Crystal Bridges, selected Safdie for his sensitivity to the site’s rolling hills and Ozark woods. “The design responds very gently to the setting, is respectful of nature, and doesn’t seek to dominate the landscape,” says executive director Don Bacigalupi. Courtesy of John Horner/Safdie Architects
A view of the circulation path in the bridge building at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. Courtesy of John Horner/Safdie Architects
Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., the oldest continuously operating museum in the US, was redesigned and expanded by Safdie with a courtyard and arcade to unify the older buildings along with the new gallery space. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File
Safdie’s Khalsa Heritage Center in Punjab, India, will open in the fall. It celebrates 500 years of Sikh history. Courtesy of Ram Rahman/Safdie Architects
Marina Bay Sands casino resort complex in Singapore is described by some as the eighth wonder of the world. Among the many linked structures, two stand out dramatically: triplet hotel towers topped by a daringly cantilevered, three-acre SkyPark and the ArtScience Museum that some liken to a lotus, with 10 white fiberglass “petals” reaching toward the light. Simin Wang/Newscom/File
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo., as viewed from the northeast, will open this fall. What Safdie’s diverse projects have in common, he says, “is conceptual engagement with a similar principle: They all belong to their cultural and geographic setting.” Courtesy of David Riffel/Moshe Safdie Architects
Helzberg Hall, Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Mo. Courtesy of John Horner/Safdie Architects
An aerial view of a model of the Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Mo., as it would look at night. Resisting the uniformity spurred by globalization, Safdie seeks to interpret the “genius loci” (spirit of place) for each project. Courtesy of John Horner/Safdie Architects
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These gardens in the sky sometimes boast trees, as well as grass and other plants, which cool the building while sucking up carbon-dioxide pollution.
Kenyan architects are designing buildings with green roofs covered in vegetation to cool their interiors, conserve energy and water, and help curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
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