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Montreal's Habitat 67 has a $750K condo for sale & it's like a time capsule inside (PHOTOS)

If you have ever dreamed of living inside a museum piece without freezing your bank account, this may be your shot. A rare ...
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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, 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 ...
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 ...
ArchDaily

Architecture Classics: Habitat 67 / Safdie Architects

Habitat 67, designed by the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie as the Canadian Pavilion for the World Exposition of 1967, was originally intended as an experimental solution for high-quality ...
Wall Street Journal

Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, an Architectural Icon, Arrives at a Crossroads

When a building looks like a giant concrete insect colony, it attracts a lot of attention. Habitat 67, the residential complex in Montreal designed by architect Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World’s Fair, ...
New Atlas

Sky Habitat: Moshe Safdie's 21st-Century hillside settlement

Moshe Safdie's residential complex in Bishan, Singapore, is inspired by ancient hillside developments and the architect's own Habitat 67 complex in Montreal, Canada. The Sky Habitat is formed of two ...
New Atlas

Homage to brutalist icon inspires a habitat made of pixels

In what Bjarke Ingels says will be a striking departure for the city's architecture, the Danish architect has designed a homage to Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 for Toronto, Canada. King Street West will ...
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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 Desert Sun

Modernism Week 2019: Architect Moshe Safdie says ideas behind Habitat '67 have 'come full circle'

For more than 50 years, architect Moshe Safdie has created some of the most eye-catching and mesmerizing projects across the world. With Habitat ’67 in Montreal, Safdie transformed urban living design ...