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MONTREAL – Surrounded by river and silhouetted against a blue sky, the futuristic stacked concrete cubes of Montreal's Habitat 67 jut out of the landscape like a child's building-block project brought to life. More than 50 years after Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie built the 12-storey, 354-cube residential housing complex for the Expo 67 World's Fair, it remains one of the city's most recognizable, and divisive landmarks. While some have criticized the brutalist concrete architecture an Habitat 67, Cubes Architecture, Moshe Safdie, Expo 67, Brutalism Architecture, Brutalist Buildings, Dome House, Social Housing, Brutalist Architecture

MONTREAL – Surrounded by river and silhouetted against a blue sky, the futuristic stacked concrete cubes of Montreal's Habitat 67 jut out of the landscape like a child's building-block project brought to life.More than 50 years after Israeli-Canadian

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Fifty years ago, a young Canadian-Israeli architect got the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to realize his senior thesis for the 1967 World Fair in Montréal. The resulting housing complex inspired generations of architects inside and outside of Canada, and its influence is visible in...

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