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6 unusual facts about Moshe Safdie


Eleanor Roosevelt College

Eleanor Roosevelt College's current, multi-million dollar location was designed by the architect Moshe Safdie.

Integrated resort

The design by Moshe Safdie consists of three large shells containing conference halls and other business venues, three large hotel towers linked on their top floors by a sweeping sky garden, and a centerpiece museum which juts out onto the bay.

Philip Owen

Under his leadership, the city also opened Library Square, a new downtown headquarters for the Vancouver Public Library which features an innovative architectural design by Moshe Safdie.

Polsinelli

In 2012 it announced plans to tear down the bankrupt and unfinished Moshe Safdie-designed West Edge building that had originally been built for Bob Bernstein on the west side of the Plaza and replace it with a 10-story structure designed by 360 Architecture called Plaza Vista.

The Boston Museum

The original planned building was be designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates and is estimated to cost $124 million.

Xiuning County

In 2003, the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, completed a 200 million dollar renovation and expansion, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, moving a 200-year-old 16-room Chinese house from Xiuning County to the grounds of the Museum.



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