Safdie Architects

CTBUH Silver Member

Overview
Buildings
Initiatives

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	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

Award of Excellence: Habitat Qinhuangdao

Best Tall Building, by Height, 100-199 meters 2025

Ctbuh Leaders

Jaron Lubin

CTBUH Skybridges Research Project Steering Committee, 2019 – Present

Boston

Associated companies

Formerly Named

Moshe Safdie and Associates

Formerly Named

Moshe Safdie and Associates

RANK	Name	City	Completion	Height	Floors	Function
1	Raffles City Chongqing T3N	Chongqing	2019	354 m / 1,163 ft	79	Residential / Retail
2	Raffles City Chongqing T4N	Chongqing	2019	354 m / 1,163 ft	74	Hotel / Office / Retail
3	Columbus Circle Project	New York City	-	291 m / 955 ft	68	Office
4	Raffles City Chongqing T5	Chongqing	2019	256 m / 839 ft	58	Residential / Retail
5	Raffles City Chongqing T2	Chongqing	2019	256 m / 839 ft	57	Residential / Retail
6	Raffles City Chongqing T4S	Chongqing	2019	256 m / 839 ft	51	Hotel / Office / Retail
7	Raffles City Chongqing T3S	Chongqing	2019	256 m / 839 ft	48	Office / Retail
8	8 West 30th Street	New York City	-	243 m / 796 ft	64	Residential / Office
9	Altair	Colombo	2019	240 m / 787 ft	68	Residential
10	Raffles City Chongqing T1	Chongqing	2019	228 m / 750 ft	52	Residential / Retail
10	Raffles City Chongqing T6	Chongqing	2019	228 m / 750 ft	52	Residential / Retail
12	Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1	Singapore	2010	207 m / 679 ft	57	Hotel
12	Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 3	Singapore	2010	207 m / 679 ft	57	Hotel
14	Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 2	Singapore	2010	203 m / 665 ft	57	Hotel
15	ORCA Non-Residential Tower	Toronto	-	161 m / 529 ft	44	Serviced Apartments
16	ORCA Office Tower	Toronto	-	161 m / 529 ft	36	Office
17	ORCA Residential Tower 1	Toronto	-	161 m / 529 ft	46	Residential
17	ORCA Residential Tower 2	Toronto	-	161 m / 529 ft	46	Residential
17	ORCA Residential Tower 3	Toronto	-	161 m / 529 ft	46	Residential
20	ORCA Residential Tower 4	Toronto	-	152 m / 498 ft	43	Residential
20	ORCA Residential Tower 5	Toronto	-	152 m / 498 ft	43	Residential
20	ORCA Residential Tower 6	Toronto	-	152 m / 498 ft	43	Residential
23	Monde	Toronto	2018	150 m / 492 ft	44	Residential
24	Sky Habitat Block 7	Singapore	2015	131 m / 429 ft	38	Residential
24	Sky Habitat Block 9	Singapore	2015	131 m / 429 ft	38	Residential
26	ORCA East Residential Building 1	Toronto	-	122 m / 399 ft	33	Serviced Apartments
26	ORCA East Residential Building 2	Toronto	-	122 m / 399 ft	33	Serviced Apartments
28	Habitat Qinhuangdao	Qinhuangdao	2024	110 m / 360 ft	33	Residential
29	Boulevard 88	Singapore	2023	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 9,618 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.	29	Residential
30	Qorner	Quito	2022	98 m / 322 ft	25	Residential
31	Library Square	Vancouver	1995	84 m / 276 ft	21	Library / Office / Retail
32	Surbana Jurong Campus	Singapore	2021	37 m / 120 ft	7	Office
33	Beira Lake Tower	Colombo	-	-	65	Residential
34	LuOne	Shanghai	-	-	28	Office
35	Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 4	Singapore	-	-	N/A	Hotel

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.