Moshe Safdie

The University of Baltimore announced yesterday the five finalists in its competition to design a $107 million law center near Penn Station. The teams, all well-known architecture firms, were selected from nine groups that came to Baltimore this week...

The British company that designed what it calls the "largest single building on the planet," the Beijing Capital International Airport, now wants to create a new building for midtown Baltimore. So does the French architect of the world's largest library....

Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie hasn't designed a project for Baltimore since he designed Coldspring Newtown in the 1970s, but he's apparently interested in working on the $107 million law school planned by the University of Baltimore. So is the...

Let's set aside, for a second, the hardheaded question of whether Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava's twisting 2,000-foot Chicago tower will ever get built. In a way, it doesn't matter. Last Wednesday's unveiling of the dazzling, but...

Only in Manhattan could a battleship-gray colossus rise 750 feet into the sky and go largely unnoticed by the people at its feet. For two years, drivers and pedestrians have been picking their way through Columbus Circle, so preoccupied with the shifting...

Coldspring New Town seems more like a park than a city neighborhood. Just minutes west of Interstate 83, this hilltop, wooded North Baltimore neighborhood has pedestrian paths that wind among playgrounds and its own bird sanctuary. "You can escape to...

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When the visionary American architect Louis I. Kahn died in 1974 at age 73, his front page New York Times obituary listed a wife and a daughter as his only survivors. Not quite. For Kahn, a flawed man whose buildings were impeccable, left not one but...

With Walt Disney Concert Hall earning high praise even before it has opened, the directors of a planned new performing arts center in Kansas City have hired its acoustician, Yasuhisa Toyota, while dumping another leading name in the concert-acoustics...