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"SUPERSTRUCTURES: The New Architecture 1960-1990" marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sainsbury Centre gallery, the first public building designed by Norman Foster. Sainsbury Centre Curator Monserrat Pis Marcos explains how materials loaned from the RIBA Collection are woven into the exhibition to tell the story of architecture's fascination with technology in the post-war decades.

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Space Needle Facts: everything you ever needed to know about the Needle

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Address: 2600, avenue Pierre-Dupuy | Habitat 67 | | Visit Website
Latitude/Longitude: 45.5, -73.5436

Expo 67, one of the world's largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Within the movement of liberalization and opening to the world characterizing this period, the exposition was entitled "Man and his World" as the title of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpeace. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67.

Saint-Exupéry wrote: "We have to make lively this new house that doesn't have a face yet. The truth for one was to build; it is, for the other, to occupy it."

Habitat 67 then became a thematic pavilion invaded by thousands of admiring visitors that came from all around the world, on top of being the temporary residence of many dignitaries passing by Montreal.

Habitat 67 was an event in itself at the time. It still is today.

This housing complex became not only the "place where to be" for some 148 singles, couples and families which have made it their main residence, but as well a real community of which the style and the quality of life are envied throughout Canada.
- An experience
Habitat 67 is an experience that was revealed as being a spectacular achievement impacting on the collective imaginary and contributing in a significant way to the feeling of pride of the Montrealers.

It is Moshe Sadie's discovery, student in architecture at McGill University in the beginning of the 60's: an urban and three-dimensional housing concept rallying the "single family dwelling" in an adaptable form to density.

Moreover, Habitat 67 is located on an invented peninsula: la "Cité du Havre".
- A destiny
Habitat 67 still shines with brightness. It is without a doubt one of the only modern utopias that was materialized by becoming a popular success as well as a "prestigious address".

Its intrinsic genius is indeed praised by both the architectural and the urban planning circles, by the public in general and particularly by its residents.

Moshe Safdie continues to sojourn and to give his advice on the renovation projects of the residents in order to keep the architectural integrity, the security and the serenity of the complex.

The Architectural Concept
- An icon of permanent modernity
The cube is the base, the mean and the finality of Habitat 67. In its material sense, the cube is a symbol of stability. As for its mystic meaning, the cube is symbol of wisdom, truth, moral perfection, at the origin itself of our civilization.

354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up one on the other to form 148 residences nestled between sky and earth, between city and river, between greenery and light.

The whole unites in a gigantic sculpture futuristic interiors, links, pedestrian streets and suspended terraces, aerial spaces, skylights of different angles, large plazas and monumental elevator pillars, without forgetting the openings, here and there, that are as many winks and calls to meditation from the environment as well as from the living experience.
- A world wide scale signature
"Habitat 67 is the amazing accomplishment of Moshe Safdie's youth. The principal quality of Moshe Safdie's entire work is to confer to things a character of eternity. He puts emphasis on architecture's daily life: the way spaces are used, the performance of the building in its climate, the real desires of future residents. In many ways, the essence of his work is a dichotomy: at the same time tearing and meditation between the universal and the specific, between the ideal and the real.
- Wendy Kohn. "Moshe Safdie", Acadamy Editions, 1996.

The Residences
- A diversity in uniqueness
Those who choose Habitat 67 as their main residence create their own world to their image, within a complex of a remarkable unity.

The sense of innovation, the charm, the good taste and the diverse countries of origin of the residents are such, that Habitat 67's interiors and private terraces gladly compete.

Circled by an exceptional environment, Habitat 67 is a community undeniably contemporary, admirable by the fact that singles, families, couples and retired people all meet with the same happiness.
- A kaleidoscope vision
Habitat 67's architect wanted to offer a "fragment of paradise to everyone".

Habitat 67's residences characteristics, which are displayed over 12 floors, can be summarized as the following:

- 15 models varying between 1 and 8 cubes
- Views on 3 sides and landscaped terraces
- Areas from 624 to 5000 square feet, displayed over 1,2,3 or 4 floors
- Private terraces from 225 to 1000 square feet
- Possibility to add a solarium
- 6 elevators
- Sidewalks at various levels giving access to residences
- Central heating and air conditioning
- Excellent soundproofing.
- A territory Even though
Habitat 67's residents have made it their fortress, they are always happy to welcome new comers to share their attachment and their dedication.

Habitat 67 is built on a peninsula which advances proudly in front of the Old Port of Montreal. Standing on a terrace, you are completely surrounded by the city's lights, the bridges silhouettes, the sound of the river rapids, the smell of the maple trees, oak and poplar trees, the air of the river and the sky.
- The rhythm
Habitat 67 is the redefinition of everything you expect from an urban residence.

You can live there at the rhythm of the city, of the suburbs, or of the country. And even at the sound of the jazz, of the fireworks, of the birds and of the gigantic water flow. All within a discrete and luxurious frame.
(text from building's website)

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Expo 67, one of the world's largest universal expositions was held in Montreal. Within the movement of liberalization and opening to the world characterizing this period, the exposition was entitled "Man and his World" as the title of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpeace. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67.

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The Danish Pavilion for Expo 2010 by Bjarke Ingels Group

Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), designed the Danish Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China.

Full description after the photos....

Photography by Iwan Baan, Hanne Hvattun, and Leif Orkelbog-Andresen

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Description of the Danish Pavilion for Expo 2010 by Bjarke Ingels Group:

The Danish pavilion does not only exhibit the Danish virtues. Through interaction, the visitors are able to actually experience some of Copenhagen's best attractions - the city bike, the harbor bath, the playground and the picnic.

The bike is a popular mean of transportation and a national symbol - common to Denmark and China. In recent years, however, it has had a very different fate in the two countries. While Copenhagen is striving to become the world's leading bike city, heavy motor traffic is on the rise in Shanghai, where the car has become a symbol of wealth.

At the Danish Pavilion we relaunch the bike in Shanghai as a symbol of modern lifestyle and sustainable urban development. The Pavilion and the entire exhibition can be experienced on city bikes that are free for the guests to use. The building is designed as a double spiral with pedestrian and cycle lanes taking you from the ground and through curves up to a level of 12 metres and down again. In this way you can experience the Danish exhibition both inside and outside at two speeds - as calm stroll with time to absorb the surroundings or as a bicycle trip, where the city and city life drift past

Both Shanghai and Copenhagen are harbor cities. The polluting activities in the Copenhagen harbors have been replaced by harbor parks and cultural institutions, as the result, the water has become clean enough to swim in. In the heart of the pavilion the guests will find the Harbour Pool. Children can dapple their feet in the water and thus experience how it is like to live in a Danish city where the water in the harbour is clean. In the middle of The Harbour Pool, The Little Mermaid is sitting exactly as she usually sits in Copenhagen. The original Mermaid is visiting China as a concrete example of the idea that the Danish pavilion contains the real experience of the Danish city life.

While The Little Mermaid is in Shanghai, her place in Langeline will be occupied by an art work created by the internationally recognized Chinese artist Ai Weise who among other things worked as a consultant on Bird's Nest, the national Olympic stadium in Beijing.

The pavilion is constructed as a monolithic self-supporting construction in white-painted steel, manufactured at a Chinese shipyard. Synthetic light-blue coating used in Denmark for bicycle paths will cover the roof. Inside, the floor will appear in epoxy, the light-blue bycycle path respectively.

The sequence of events at the exhibition takes place between two parallel facades - the internal and external. The internal is closed and contains different functions of the pavilion. The width varies and is defined by the programme of the inner space. The external facade, pavilion's façade outwards, is made of perforated steel. In the evening time, the indoor activity of the pavilion will be illuminated for passers-by.

The Danish artist Jeppe Hein has designed a 'social bench' that will run alongside the bicycle lane. In some places, the bench adapts to its environment elastically and different functions are added such as a bar for food and drink.

Visit the Bjarke Ingels Group website - here.

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The Danish Pavilion for Expo 2010 by Bjarke Ingels Group

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The Danish Pavilion for Expo 2010 by Bjarke Ingels Group Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), designed the Danish Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China. Full description after the photos.... Photography by Iwan Baan, Hanne Hvattun, and Leif Orkelbog-Andresen .

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List of world expositions is an annotated list of every world exposition sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), including those recognised retrospectively as they took place (long) before BIE came into existence.

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Better City Better Life, Shanghai

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Man and His World, Montreal

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Century 21 Exposition, Man in The Space Age, Seattle, 1962

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- The most recognized building of Mies, where it show his idea of "less is more" perfectly.
- The very first building that don't serve any function, playing with its luxurious materials bringing up a focus point to the space itself.

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- One of the most significant architect in 19 century.
- Head of international style
- Promoting minimalism, where he always say that "less is more".

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Back view, right view
front view, left view of House 14&15

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The First International Style Exhibition

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The First International Style Exhibition

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The whole project was monitored by Mies van der Rohe, and he build the largest house 1-4.

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by Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret in 1927

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Detailing of Eiffel Towers, by Gustave Eiffel

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Another Significant Exposition in 1889, Paris International Exposition. Showing the French Revolution

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- In official way, it is a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products.

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The first exposition, 1851 carried out in this Crystal Palace, London. Also can as The Great exhibition, Industry of All Nations.

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Front view & Plans

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