http://www.msafdie.comLatest Newshttp://www.msafdie.com/newsThe Building and Construction Authority has awarded integrated resort Marina Bay Sands (MBS) the Green Mark Gold Award for its eco-friendly practices.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMichael Cockram speaks with Moshe Safdie about the design of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, as well as project engineers and museum curators, in this review of the recently opened project in Bentonville.http://www.msafdie.com/newsNoam Dvir interviews Moshe Safdie about his current work, and especially his many recent and ongoing projects in Asia.http://www.msafdie.com/newsCapitaLand Ltd. will jointly develop a Safdie-designed mixed-use project in Chongqing, China.http://www.msafdie.com/newsNew York Times music critic Zachary Woolfe reviews the recently-opened Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.http://www.msafdie.com/newsA review of the architecture and art of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.http://www.msafdie.com/newsElizabeth Blair speaks with Moshe Safdie about the design of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and interviews Bentonville, Arkansas, residents, as well as museum director Don Bacigalupi, about the importance of Crystal Bridges to the Ozarks region.http://www.msafdie.com/newsHolly Finn reviews the architecture and collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIn the lecture "Symbols in the Public Realm," at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on October 11, Moshe Safdie explored the creation of vital public spaces, capturing the essence of place, and building with a purpose through recent and upcoming projects, including the United States Institute of Peace.http://www.msafdie.com/newsJames Russell reviews the architecture and collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie’s United States Institute of Peace opens on the National Mall’s last buildable lot.http://www.msafdie.com/newsWeeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie and Jeffrey Brown discuss the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the moral purpose of architecture, and the need for a building to reflect the cultural essence of its location while remaining timeless.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie, the designer of the new United States Institute of Peace, discusses the challenges of designing a would-be icon of peace in a time of war.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a $326 million concrete-and-glass building designed by Moshe Safdie, opens September 16, 2011.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie and Charlie Rose discuss the challenges facing contemporary architecture, as well as individual projects and the thinking behind them.http://www.msafdie.com/newsStrip malls and office parks line the landscape of this northwest Arkansas city at the foot of the Ozark Mountains.http://www.msafdie.com/newsHabitat 67 is Montreal's iconic residential housing complex that looks like a precarious pile of concrete boxes spread over a landfill site on the outskirts of downtown Montreal.http://www.msafdie.com/newsA Walmart heiress builds a museum in the Ozarks.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney may seem to have passed, but Alice L. Walton is bringing it back.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIt may be the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, but 2011 is a bullish year for world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, whose audacious creations are more jaw-dropping than flop-eared.http://www.msafdie.com/newsFor the promontory at Marina Bay, the centerpiece of downtown Singapore, the Government of Singapore mandated an iconic cultural building.http://www.msafdie.com/newsConstantly redefining and reconfiguring the rules of design, he's the vanguard of its changing face, while keenly shaping the its future with projects around the globe.http://www.msafdie.com/newsSingapore's newest museum doesn't dwell on the alleged dichotomy between art and science.http://www.msafdie.com/news"In architecture, the idea of imposing a signature style - be it in Barcelona or Nigeria - has become a very powerful force," says Moshe Safdie, founder of the Boston-based firm Safdie Architects, "and I just never felt part of it," he admits.http://www.msafdie.com/newsChatting to Moshe Safdie, the master architect of Marina Bay Sands, is an exercise in intellectual humility.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe design of the Museum is composed of two principle parts.http://www.msafdie.com/newsHad Moshe Safdie become a farmer, some of the most striking buildings on the planet might never have been built.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, conceptualized and designed by architect Moshe Safdie as the first museum dedicated to the dynamic interplay between art and science, will open to the public on February 19, 2011.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe top-heavy ArtScience Museum, which looks like an 'upside-down' building, was a challenge to build.http://www.msafdie.com/newsLotus-inspired ArtScience Museum to open at Marina Bay Sands complex in Singapore.http://www.msafdie.com/newshttp://www.msafdie.com/newsIn 1971, Moshe Safdie was one of the most famous architects in the world. He was only 33, but his face appeared on the cover of Newsweek as the designer of Habitat for he 1967 World Expo in Montreal.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe Eleanor Roosevelt College, an undergraduate campus at University of California San Diego, creates a home for a college which had previously been spread throughout the campus, lacking a cohesive unity.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThings are looking up-in some cases, way up-when it comes to the latest wave of hotel design in the megacities of Shanghai, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore.http://www.msafdie.com/newsLeading a team of interior designers, with contributions from firms such as CL3, Rockwell Group and Hirsch Bedner, acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie has conceived an iconic structure that will surely come to define modern Singapore.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe architect’s Boston-area firm has five large-scale projects scheduled for completion this year...the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore is one of the most ambitious...http://www.msafdie.com/newsWhile a skyscraper can be defined as a tower that primarily stands out for being tall, Marina Bay Sands is an example of a new and yet nameless type of tall building.http://www.msafdie.com/newsWith the year and the decade soon ending, we're dedicating this final Design Thursday in 2010 to an assessment of the best architecture and interiors of the decade (2001-2010), and likewise providing some thoughts on what you can expect in 2011 and soon thereafter.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThere's a lot to be said for an economy where pesky barriers like democracy don't block the way for major real estate deals.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a new center for music, opera, theater, and dance set to open in downtown Kansas City, Missouri in September 2011.http://www.msafdie.com/newsWith his U.S. Institute of Peace set to open in Washington, Israeli-born Moshe Safdie takes his place among the world’s leading architects.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIn the gallery he created, a new show explains why this global citizen is a national treasure.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIncludes records of the tallest buildings/structures according to function and structural material, the highest spaces according to function, and some lesser-known titles such as the world’s tallest timber building, tallest religious buildings, highest swimming pool, etc.http://www.msafdie.com/newsArchitects: Safdie Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Director: Moshe Safdiehttp://www.msafdie.com/newsThis Thursday saw part of Singapore’s newest mixed use development opened to the public in an extravagant ceremony across one of the world’s largest observation decks.http://www.msafdie.com/newsEarlier this year, designboom visited the marina bay sands while it was still under construction.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe architect behind Singapore’s second integrated resort said building it within four years was an "impossible schedule". But he is pleased with the results of the iconic structure, describing Marina Bay Sands (MBS) as his "most ambitious urban project."http://www.msafdie.com/newsMarina Bay Sands, a $5 billion, high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,560-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino, opened to the public on June 23, 2010.http://www.msafdie.com/newsCanadian architect Moshe Safdie’s latest project, the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, a 38-acre waterfront development that includes a luxury hotel, mixed-use resort, theatres and a waterfront plaza, opens today.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMarina Bay Sands has been recognized as a finalist in the CTBUH 2010 Best Tall Building awards for the Asia & Australasia region.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe brainchild behind Singapore's iconic structure Marina Bay Sands was in town recently for the opening ceremony of the integrated resorts on April 27. World renowned architect Moshe Safdie also launched the Marina Bay Sands Art Path a day after the opening.http://www.msafdie.com/newsSingapore threw open the doors of its second casino on Tuesday as part of a $US 5.5 billion complex built by US gaming giant Las Vegas Sands.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie will give the Druker Lecture Celebrating Design and Architecture at the Boston Public Library on 8 May 2010 at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.http://www.msafdie.com/newsPerhaps you still have that last century idea of libraries, whisper-quiet and offering little beyond books. But libraries are changing.http://www.msafdie.com/newsSingapore isn’t exactly lacking for high-end lodging, but the Las Vegas Sands hopes to top them all with its new Marina Bay Sands Resort, which features a dizzying array of luxury offerings.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIn recent years, architectural and urban development has undergone a significant ideological and formal transformation, bringing a decisive change to approaches to design, and affirming a new interest in the development of a continually more ecological and sustainable urban intentionality of the project.http://www.msafdie.com/newsAIA New York reports on the lecture given by Moshe Safdie at the Center of Architecture. Frederic Schwartz interviews Safdie following the lecture.http://www.msafdie.com/newsMoshe Safdie talks to Architect Magazine about our research fellowship program.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation has commissioned Moshe Safdie and Associates to design a new Center for Human Rights Education.http://www.msafdie.com/newsSarah Williams Goldhagen has written an article on Moshe Safdie for the Design Observer.http://www.msafdie.com/newsIt is fascinating to witness the embryonic ideas of Habitat reaching fruition in Safdie’s program for the city of Modi’in, a potent precedent for 21st century urban design housing development.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe regeneration of Toronto's desolate industrial shoreline took another bold step forward last week, when Waterfront Toronto, the crown corporation overseeing the transformation, unveiled its first private sector development in the 55-acre East Bayfront district.http://www.msafdie.com/newsThe WAN AWARDS Civic sector attracted the biggest number of entries yet, outstripping both Education and Healthcare. As would be expected, the variety of projects was immense, from a booth in Times Square to a vast exhibition centre in China.http://www.msafdie.com/newsWhat started as a student project more than four decades ago has now been designated a heritage site by the Quebec government.