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Hero image

1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Habitat 67 image

Housing complex in Montreal, Quebec

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Habitat 67

Montreal, Quebec, Canada · City-level coordinates only

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Hero image

Housing complex in Montreal, Quebec

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Comparison

Field	Habitat 67 1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Arata Isozaki & Associates 1963 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1963
Place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Representative site: Changsha, Changsha, People's Republic of China
Climate	5°C · 13.9h daylight · 13 km/h wind	12°C · 13.0h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Hunan Museum
Focus	Housing complex	20 works in corpus
Architects	Moshe Safdie	Arata Isozaki
Linked context	Bureaus Safdie Architects	Notable works Hunan Museum Bass Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Typologies	housing residential complex prefabrication	museum landscape performance venue building gallery tower house office
Materials	concrete	timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	13 of 13 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.