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Photographer James Brittain has revisited the Habitat 67 housing estate in Montreal 50 years after it first opened. The building, designed by Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, has become ...
Montreal's Habitat 67 showed that high-density urban housing could be built without making people feel like they've been crammed into a concrete shoebox. That kind of building is now in high ...
Habitat 67 began as Safdie’s thesis project at university. In 1964, he founded Safdie Architects to start work on developing it. The funding didn’t work out for his original design. However, in 1967, ...
Habitat 67 is made up of 354 modules divided among 148 homes. In 2017, as Canada's confederacy turns 150 years old, Montreal will be celebrating its own milestone – the city's 375 th anniversary.
Habitat 67 remains one of several pavilions from that world’s fair that are still being used, though it’s the only one to be serving its original purpose.
There's nothing quite like Habitat 67 in Montreal, the apartment complex that looms along the St. Lawrence River like your little brother's Lego collection come to life. Designed by Israelian ...