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Beyond the box

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / September 20

Four decades after Habitat made him a celebrity at Expo 67, Moshe Safdie has matured into a prolific, popular and paradoxical architect. ``Building the most for the least, sustainability, giving buildings meaning in terms of their setting and specific culture of their communities these are all issues which not only do I believe in, but also they form an ethic of architecture,'' says Safdie When award-winning architect Moshe Safdie was designing the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, he thought about ways to bring a sense of calmness. He did it with vaulted rooms, soft diffused light and a garden.

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