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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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Field	Habitat 67 1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1850
Place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	9°C · 13.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind	11°C · 14.3h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Housing complex	5 works in corpus
Architects	Moshe Safdie	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus Safdie Architects	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	housing residential complex prefabrication	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.