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Safdie Architects and Neoscape unveil digital model of Habitat 67’s original design

The visualization retains a high level of detail for a model of its scale. (Courtesy Epic Games) Neoscape worked closely with Safdie Architects to realize the digital model of Habitat 67’s original ...
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Moshe Safdie donates his professional archive and Habitat 67 apartment to McGill University

Over 100,000 archival items produced by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie during his illustrious 50-year career, including sketches, models, drawings, and letters will be donated to McGill ...
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Habitat 67 turns fifty

In 1967 Montréal hosted one of the most successful Expos in history. The experimental neighbourhood Habitat 67 was one of the event’s showpieces and the Centre de Design at the UQAM (Université du ...
The Globe and Mail

Habitat 67’s charm still bleeds through its aging concrete and rebar

A warm wind sweeps through a cavernous grey concrete courtyard at Habitat 67, the iconic complex of stacked, interlocking modular residential units located on an artificial peninsula across from ...
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Photographer James Brittain gets under the skin of Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Does architectural photography always need to look so pristine? One practitioner is not so sure.
The Boston Globe

A once-futuristic vision for urban housing whose time still may come

An idea for dense mixed-income living in city centers got a showcase in the 1960s but didn’t catch on. Could something like this work in Boston? The camera flies like a bird through an apartment ...
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Habitat 67, an architectural masterpiece in Montreal, has been fully rendered in Unreal Engine

An iconic housing development in Montreal, Habitat 67, has been fully rendered in Unreal Engine. However, it isn’t exactly like the one that exists today. Rather, this project has rendered the ...
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Moshe Safdie's private Habitat 67 home is restored and open to the public

The duplex apartment that architect Moshe Safdie designed for himself in his brutalist Habitat 67 complex in Montreal has opened to the public, after a major restoration completed by his firm. Safdie ...
The Globe and Mail

Habitat 67, 50 years later: How residents are remixing Montreal’s Expo legacy

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The Independent

Habitat 67: Photographer captures life in the housing estate 50 years on from its opening

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 one of ...
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Moshe Safdie donates his Habitat 67 apartment to McGill University

Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is gifting his personal unit at the brutalist-style Habitat 67 housing complex and his professional archive to his alma mater in Montreal, where he earned his ...