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He has worked on projects in Singapore since the 1980s, but it is one of the world's costliest casino-resorts to date — the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort (IR) — that prompted famed architect Moshe Safdie to set up an office here. "We're responsible for an estimated US$4 billion ($5.9-billion) project and that requires a lot of presence here. The incentive for setting up this office is definitely this project," he told Today in a phone interview last week. Mr Safdie has some 60 people working on the IR in Boston who communicate through "every technological means available". "You can't do this long-distance. We're building mark-up samples, meeting with the engineers and Government agencies. You have to do all this on location," said the 69-year-old.