Habitat, Expo 67
- Multi-family housing community along the St. Lawrence River in Montréal. Prefabricated individual cubes are stacked in apparently random order and connected by steel cables. They are placed in such a way so that each apartment has a balcony on the roof of the apartment immediately below.
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- Spaceship Earth Pavilion, Epcot Centre, Florida
- The world's first geosphere is 180 feet high and weighs around 16 million pounds. It's supports are sunk between 120 feet and 185 feet into the ground and 1,700 tonnes of steel were used to build the structure. Rain water is channeled through a special drainage system to the nearby lagoon.
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