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Habitat 67

Residential Buildings
Stacked Cubic Modules

Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, is a housing complex at Cite du Havre on the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by the Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie. It originated in his master's thesis at the School of Architecture at McGill University, and an amended version was built for Expo 67, the World's Fair held from April to October 1967; it is considered an architectural landmark and a recognized building in Montreal.

Facts
Building Type
Housing Complex 1
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1
Completed Year
1967 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Residential 2
Connections

Associated With

Expo 67, Montreal, Milestones

Has Building Type

Dwelling, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Brutalism, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Habitat 67

Uses Element

Precast Concrete, Architectural Materials

Built from 354 identical prefabricated precast-concrete modules, craned into place and stacked in varying arrangements.

In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Habitat 67
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead paragraph
    Habitat 67, or just Habitat, is a housing complex at Cite du Havre, on the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie.
  • infobox, completion
    Completed 1967
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, is a housing complex at Cite du Havre on the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by the Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie. It originated in his master's thesis at the School of Architecture at McGill University, and an amended version was built for Expo 67, the World's Fair held from April to October 1967; it is considered an architectural landmark and a recognized building in Montreal.
  • In Style: Brutalism, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Brutalist architecture in Canada
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2. Wikidata: Habitat 67
  • Wikidata Q1032248, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q1032248, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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