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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	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1960
Place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	9°C · 13.9h daylight · 10 km/h wind	8°C · 14.4h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Housing complex	4 works in corpus
Architects	Moshe Safdie	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus Safdie Architects	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	housing residential complex prefabrication	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	concrete	concrete timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
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. 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.