Montréal - Habitat '67

The principal attraction of the Cité du Havre (across the Pont de la Concorde from Île Sainte-Hélène) is the housing project known as Habitat '67. It was designed by the Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie as one of the grandiose schemes of Expo '67 to provide low-cost futuristic inner-city housing, but was never actually completed in its entirety. Now rather past their prime, these precast concrete uniform building blocks with their terraces and in their great variety of combinations do provide a far from standard alternative to municipal housing in boring tower blocks or monotonous estates.