This week on Person Place Thing,Architect Moshe Safdie created buildings from Montreal (Habitat 67) to Singapore (Jewel Changi Airport), but Jerusalem -- the center of three Abrahamic religions, where people have lived for 6,000 years – is different: “It takes an act of real arrogance to build in a city like that. It was quite emotionally wrenching,” Safdie says.
Person Place Thing Featuring Moshe Safdie
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