Moshe Safdie

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Moshe Safdie
Holocaust History Museum

Situated on a hillside overlooking Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem Valley, the new Holocaust History Museum is the culmination of a 10-year redevelopment project of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.

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The Holocaust History Museum, the most essential component of Safdie’s 800,000-square-foot project, replaces Yad Vashem’s existing Historical Museum, and serves as the complex’s new core.

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Most of the Museum’s concrete and glass “main body” is hidden within the Mount of Remembrance, on which the Yad Vashem campus is situated, allowing little more than its 500 feet elongated, angular spine to convey a sense of its true scale.
At one end of the spine, closest to the Museum’s entrance and to the Visitors Center, a large triangular prism cantilevers outward over the valley floor, seemingly floating into space.


PS-Maybe some inspiration for Bakbek for his link across street project :D

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Did someone say Cantilever -

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Collinade

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At the opposite end, the museum’s low-slung, slender walls burst forth from the hillside to form the curved pair of wings that mark the Museum’s exit.

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Fin Detail

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A network of galleries, illuminated through the central skylight 60 feet above, are located along the Museum’s partially submerged central walkway.

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Galleries

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The galleries, hidden from view when entering the museum, present the Holocaust chapter by chapter, along its historical and thematic course, as visitors proceed along the walkway.

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Another section

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At the end of the historical narrative the “Hall of Names” forms the final, dramatic display space.
The 30 feet high conical structure, open to the sky, houses the personal records of millions of Jewish Holocaust victims. A reciprocal cone, dug out of the natural bedrock, honors those victims whose names will never be known.

The new cultural, educational, and scholarly institution reaffirms Yad Vashem’s status as an important international center of Holocaust research and remembrance.
The Masterplan greatly expands Yad Vashem’s permanent and temporary exhibition space and accommodates the campus’ growing attendance.

You can find complete article at arcspace.com (http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Safdie/holocaust/yad_vashem.html)

Moshe Safdie Website (http://www.msafdie.com/)

[cacapis]

I like it. Even though it looks way less dramatic than the jewish museum in berlin it's much more beautiful.
I read in a magazine that people call it the Toblerone. :D

[bakbek]

I like it. Even though it looks way less dramatic than the jewish museum in berlin it's much more beautiful.
I read in a magazine that people call it the Toblerone. :D

yes they do... i've heard it too

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isn't he an Israeli architect?

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Anything interest you about the street intersection Bak?

[bakbek]

Moshe Safdie is an Israeli... but he is based in Canada now or USA. He is famous for his early work Habitat 67, from the 1967 World EXPO at Montreal, Canada. A Project based on his Thesis work in Mcgill University - "A case for city living/a three-dimensional modular building system"

Habitat at Mcgill >>> (http://cac.mcgill.ca/safdie/habitat/)
The project's website >>> (http://www.habitat67.com/home.htm)

Among many of his works, he was also one of the architects of Israel's new airport terminal, and the Rabin center for peace currently being built.

I've yet to visit the new building at Yad Va Shem, so I can't comment on this project first hand yet.

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ahhhh... so he was the one who designed Habitat67!!!
thanks for that!!!

[trogers]

A recent Arch Record posted this museum alongside Eisenman's memorial in Berlin as a point/counterpoint article. I must say, even as a hardcore Eisenman fan, I actually liked Safdie's creative use of space. I will definitely put it on my "architecture to see" list...

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