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• Architect Moshe Safdie: ‘I was antagonistic to postmodernism – and I paid a price’

  23-10-2022 12:00
  From his 60s utopian housing development to infinity pools in the sky, the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie has always designed larger-than-life buildings. Now 84, he has written a memoir about the obsessional energy that still fuels his careerOnce, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn’t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was. In 1967 he realised Habitat at the Montreal Expo, one of the most memorable projects of that decade, a revolutionary model of urban li
  
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• Saudi’s 100-mile mega-city is meant to blow our minds – so we forget the crimes of its rulers | Rowan Moore

  23-10-2022 08:00
  Protesters against Neom don’t last long. How can western architects ignore this?The ambitious development of the Saudi region of Neom, goes the PR gush, is “dedicated to the sanctity of all life on Earth”. Well, not quite all, it turns out. It was recently reported that three members of the Huwaitat tribe, arrested for protesting against the forced eviction of their and other families to make way for it, have been sentenced to death. Another protester from the tribe was shot de
  
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