MOSHE SAFDIE:
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity
PROJECTS
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National Museum of Man, Quebec, Canada |
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"The rivers of Canada are synonymous with its history: they were the highways of explorers; the rivers edges were the places of settlement and the early cities occurred along them. Rivers announce the seasons by transforming dramatically from water to ice." From the published proposal: Moshe Safdie, Desnoyers and Mercure, Associated Architects, National Museum of Man: A Museum for all Canadians (Proposal), 1982. |
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Client: Canada Museums Construction Corporation |
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Date of the competition : 1982-83 |
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Architects : Moshe Safdie, Architect, Maurice Desnoyers, Andre Mercure and Associates, Architects |
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Area : 69,700 sq. m. |
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Unbuilt (the proposal by Douglas Cardinal was built. Moshe Safdie was awarded the design of the National Gallery on the basis of this submission). Today the institution is called "The Canadian Museum of Civilization". |