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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	Swan & Maclaren Group 1892 · Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1892
Place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Place context	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Representative site: Cecil, Cecil, Singapore
Climate	3°C · 13.7h daylight · 8 km/h wind	27°C · 12.2h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church
Focus	Housing complex	10 works in corpus
Architects	Moshe Safdie	Swan & Maclaren Group
Linked context	Bureaus Safdie Architects	Notable works Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church Goodwood Park Hotel Vanguard Building David Elias Building
Typologies	housing residential complex prefabrication	church sacred space house hospitality landscape education campus building civic building
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	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.