CTBUH Silver Member

Safdie Architects

About

Member Since: 2014

Member Offices: Boston

Website: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/

Safdie Architects is an architecture and urban design studio driven by a spirit of idealism and innovation. The practice is research-oriented and forward thinking, drawing upon a depth of experience to solve contemporary building challenges in imaginative and unexpected ways.

With intense personal involvement of Moshe Safdie and a core group of Principals, the practice operates in the model of an intimate design studio—yet with the resources, design intelligence, and agility to deliver some of the world’s largest and most complex commissions.

Active in a wide variety of project types, scales and sectors, their experience includes designing museums, cultural centers, libraries, housing, mixed-use developments, transportation centers and master plans in geographically and culturally-diverse places. The practice has its design headquarters in Boston with satellite offices in Jerusalem, Toronto, Shanghai and Singapore.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

Height
1 Raffles City Chongqing T3N
354.5 m / 1,163  ft
2 Raffles City Chongqing T4N
354.5 m / 1,163  ft
3 Raffles City Chongqing T5
255.6 m / 839  ft
4 Raffles City Chongqing T2
255.6 m / 839  ft
5 Raffles City Chongqing T4S
255.6 m / 839  ft
6 Raffles City Chongqing T3S
255.6 m / 839  ft
7 Altair
240 m / 787  ft
8 Raffles City Chongqing T1
228.5 m / 750  ft
9 Raffles City Chongqing T6
228.5 m / 750  ft
10 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1
206.9 m / 679  ft

Awards

Sky Habitat

Award of Excellence: Sky Habitat

Best Tall Building, by Region, Asia & Australasia 2016

Ctbuh Leaders

Jaron Lubin

Jaron Lubin

CTBUH Skybridges Research Project Steering Committee, 2019 – Present

Boston

Associated companies

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Raffles City Chongqing T3N

354 m / 1,163 ft

2 Raffles City Chongqing T4N

354 m / 1,163 ft

3 Columbus Circle Project

291 m / 955 ft

4 Raffles City Chongqing T5

256 m / 839 ft

5 Raffles City Chongqing T2

256 m / 839 ft

6 Raffles City Chongqing T4S

256 m / 839 ft

7 Raffles City Chongqing T3S

256 m / 839 ft

8 8 West 30th Street

243 m / 796 ft

9 Altair

240 m / 787 ft

10 Raffles City Chongqing T1

228 m / 750 ft

10 Raffles City Chongqing T6

228 m / 750 ft

12 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1

207 m / 679 ft

12 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 3

207 m / 679 ft

14 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 2

203 m / 665 ft

15 ORCA Non-Residential Tower

161 m / 529 ft

16 ORCA Office Tower

161 m / 529 ft

17 ORCA Residential Tower 1

161 m / 529 ft

17 ORCA Residential Tower 2

161 m / 529 ft

17 ORCA Residential Tower 3

161 m / 529 ft

20 ORCA Residential Tower 4

152 m / 498 ft

20 ORCA Residential Tower 5

152 m / 498 ft

20 ORCA Residential Tower 6

152 m / 498 ft

23 Monde

150 m / 492 ft

24 Sky Habitat Block 7

131 m / 429 ft

24 Sky Habitat Block 9

131 m / 429 ft

26 ORCA East Residential Building 1

122 m / 399 ft

26 ORCA East Residential Building 2

122 m / 399 ft

28 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 1

100 m / 328 ft

28 Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 2

100 m / 328 ft

30 Boulevard 88

99 m

325 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 29 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 9,175 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
31 Qorner

98 m / 322 ft

32 Library Square

84 m / 276 ft

33 Surbana Jurong Campus

37 m / 120 ft

34 Beira Lake Tower

-

35 LuOne

-

36 Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 4

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CTBUH Initiatives Involving Safdie Architects

Skybridges Research Team Visits Major Projects in China, Malaysia

31 July 2019

Three researchers from the CTBUH Skybridges Research Team visited four key skybridge-linked projects in Shenzhen, Chongqing, Beijing, and Kuala Lumpur.

CTBUH Canada Tours Monde Condominiums

13 March 2019

CTBUH Canada hosted a construction tour of Monde Condominiums, a 44-story residential building designed by Safdie Architects and Quadrangle.