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Jewel re-imagines the center of an airport as a major public realm attraction. Jewel offers a range of facilities for landside airport operations, indoor gardens, leisure attractions, retail offerings and hotel facilities, all under one roof.
An Israel-born and Canada-educated architect who has maintained practices in Jerusalem, Montreal, Boston, and elsewhere, Moshe Safdie is best known for his internationally recognized modern revisionist project, the Habitat housing experiment for the 1967 World’s Exposition in Montreal.
Moshe Safdie CC FRAIC OAA FAIA (Hebrew: משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career.
Feb 23, 2016 · Presenting several projects carried out within Safdie's 50-year career, the five-part show will investigate "progressive contextualism,” the architect's term for his design philosophy that a building should be an extension of its physical, historical, and cultural environments.
Sep 11, 2014 · Our series on Brutalist architecture looks at Habitat 67, the experimental modular housing presented by Moshe Safdie at the 1967 World Expo in Montreal.
12 Mins Read. Moshe Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian architect best known for designing Habitat ’67 at the site of Expo 67, a year-long international exhibition in Montreal. Early works by Moshe Safdie include Habitat Puerto Rico (1968–72), a modular housing system in San Juan; Yeshivat Porat Joseph Rabbinical College, with dormitories ...
Habitat was the major theme exhibition of the 1967 Montreal World Exposition. As a landmark demonstration project, it pioneered a vision for urban housing using the technology of pre-fabricated construction.
