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; Urban Design

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

See all status definitions
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 Asia & Australasia 2016

Ctbuh Leaders

Jaron Lubin

Jaron Lubin

CTBUH Skybridges Research Project Steering Committee, 2019 – Present

Boston

Charu Kokate

Charu Kokate

CTBUH Awards Best Tall Building Asia Jury, 2023

Singapore

Associated companies

Moshe Safdie and Associates

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
City
Height

1

Raffles City Chongqing T3N

Chongqing

355 m

1,163 ft

2

Raffles City Chongqing T4N

Chongqing

355 m

1,163 ft

3

Columbus Circle Project

New York City

291 m

955 ft

4

Raffles City Chongqing T5

Chongqing

256 m

839 ft

5

Raffles City Chongqing T2

Chongqing

256 m

839 ft

6

Raffles City Chongqing T4S

Chongqing

256 m

839 ft

7

Raffles City Chongqing T3S

Chongqing

256 m

839 ft

8

8 West 30th Street

New York City

243 m

796 ft

9

Altair

Colombo

240 m

787 ft

10

Raffles City Chongqing T1

Chongqing

229 m

750 ft

10

Raffles City Chongqing T6

Chongqing

229 m

750 ft

12

Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 1

Singapore

207 m

679 ft

12

Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 3

Singapore

207 m

679 ft

14

Marina Bay Sands Hotel Tower 2

Singapore

203 m

665 ft

15

ORCA Non-Residential Tower

Toronto

161 m

529 ft

16

ORCA Office Tower

Toronto

161 m

529 ft

17

ORCA Residential Tower 1

Toronto

161 m

529 ft

17

ORCA Residential Tower 2

Toronto

161 m

529 ft

17

ORCA Residential Tower 3

Toronto

161 m

529 ft

20

ORCA Residential Tower 4

Toronto

152 m

498 ft

20

ORCA Residential Tower 5

Toronto

152 m

498 ft

20

ORCA Residential Tower 6

Toronto

152 m

498 ft

23

Monde

Toronto

150 m

492 ft

24

Sky Habitat Block 7

Singapore

131 m

429 ft

24

Sky Habitat Block 9

Singapore

131 m

429 ft

26

ORCA East Residential Building 1

Toronto

122 m

399 ft

26

ORCA East Residential Building 2

Toronto

122 m

399 ft

28

Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 1

Qinhuangdao

100 m

328 ft

28

Habitat Qinhuangdao Phase 2

Qinhuangdao

100 m

328 ft

30

Library Square

Vancouver

84 m

276 ft

31

Qorner

Quito

82 m

269 ft

32

Beira Lake Tower

Colombo

- m

- ft

33

LuOne

Shanghai

- m

- ft

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.