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Habitat 67 in Ville-Marie, Canada
Habitat 67

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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1967 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Maki and AssociatesMaki and Associates

1965 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19671965
PlaceMontreal, Quebec, CanadaTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextMontreal, Quebec, CanadaRepresentative site: Sendagaya, Sendagaya, Japan
Climate3°C · 13.8h daylight · 15 km/h wind15°C · 13.3h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
FocusHousing complex15 works in corpus
Architects
  • Moshe Safdie
  • Fumihiko Maki
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Safdie Architects

Notable works

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
  • Japanese Sword Museum
  • Iwasaki Art Museum
Typologies
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • prefabrication
  • building
  • museum
  • performance venue
  • office
  • gallery
  • house
  • hospitality
  • tower
Materials
  • concrete
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • granite
  • rammed earth
  • stone
  • earth
Carbon signals

Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete

Concrete, Steel, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Earth
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
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