Doesn't this look like an ultra-modern housing complex prototype yet to be built? If you're not from Montreal you might actually think so. But this is Habitat. It's a complex "designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building". It's made of modular, interlocking concrete forms and each home can consist of several levels and has a garden. It was completed in 1967 in time for Expo '67. I kid you not.
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
Quite ahead of its time
Doesn't this look like an ultra-modern housing complex prototype yet to be built? If you're not from Montreal you might actually think so. But this is Habitat. It's a complex "designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building". It's made of modular, interlocking concrete forms and each home can consist of several levels and has a garden. It was completed in 1967 in time for Expo '67. I kid you not.
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