Compare

Compare works, bureaus, or a mixed set

Read a small selection side by side through images, place context, climate, typology, materials, carbon signals, accessibility, and related books.

Projects

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

Bureaus

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

Visual compare

The selected works stay in sync by slot, while the pins map where they sit inside the mixed set.

Hero image

1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Habitat 67 image

Housing complex in Montreal, Quebec

Map pins

Site spread

Pins are normalized from the recorded work coordinates so you can read the set spatially.

Habitat 67

Montreal, Quebec, Canada · City-level coordinates only

Focused slot

Hero image

Housing complex in Montreal, Quebec

Credit:

Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	Habitat 67 1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Joseph Paxton
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	Unrecorded
Place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Unrecorded
Place context	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Representative site: Chatsworth, Chatsworth, United Kingdom
Climate	1°C · 13.8h daylight · 11 km/h wind	4°C · 14.3h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Emperor Fountain
Focus	Housing complex	6 works in corpus
Architects	Moshe Safdie	Joseph Paxton
Linked context	Bureaus Safdie Architects	Notable works Emperor Fountain The Crystal Palace Château de Ferrières Château de Pregny
Typologies	housing residential complex prefabrication	house cathedral sacred space landscape education campus building building
Materials	concrete	glass timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.