Compact Bigness: How Safdie Architects Realize Megaprojects Without a Mega Office

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Safdie Architects is a research-oriented architecture and urban design studio active in a wide variety of project types, scales, and sectors. Safdie Architects’ global practice is directed from its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, with satellite offices in Jerusalem, Shanghai, and Singapore. Projects are designed, managed, and executed by a global team that hovers around 65 people! The practice is organized as a partnership and operates in the model of an intimate design studio environment. The firm's partners – many of whom joined Safdie shortly after graduation – have been working together for decades.

I interviewed Chris Mulvey and Sean Scensor both of whom are partners at Safdie Architects, about their firm's success and their interesting take on project realization. Read on to discover more about Safdie Architects’ approach to business and project implementation.

When it comes to the way Safdie Architects runs its operations, the firm is somewhat of a unicorn.

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Cite: Sara Kolata. "Compact Bigness: How Safdie Architects Realize Megaprojects Without a Mega Office" 11 Mar 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/978286/compact-bigness-how-safdie-architects-realize-megaprojects-without-a-mega-office> ISSN 0719-8884

ImageJewel Changi Airport by Safdie Architects. Image Courtesy of Jewel Changi Airport

65 人创造 150 亿美元建筑价值,萨夫迪建筑事务所的商业运营秘诀

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