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Article: THE SINGULAR MOSHE SAFDIE A passion for design has brought world acclaim -- and controversy -- to the Boston architect
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SOMERVILLE -- Somehow, Canada's favorite architect, designer of
practically every major public building up there for the last 10
years, has his office in Somerville. From a converted rattan-chair
factory in bad need of a haircut (the brick exterior supports a rank,
unweeded garden of English ivy, bittersweet and other, more
mysterious, vines) has come the design of Ottawa's City Hall, the
Canadian National Gallery, the Quebec Museum of Civilization, the
Montreal Museum of Art and the Vancouver Public Library, among other
things. And he is Israel's most prominent architect: He has a
satellite office in Jerusalem, is planning Modi'in, a new city of
50,000 homes, and the gigantic arrival ...
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... ... nothing less than a tribute to our civilization. Canadian Moshe Safdie first amazed the world at Montreal's Expo 67 with his extraordinary ... impression of Montreal when you arrived at 15 years of age? MOSHE SAFDIE: First of all, there was an interlude. We had to wait ...
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