I'm trying to put a name -- or better yet, a website -- with an apartment building I saw in Canada thirteen or so years ago.
Background -- it was a family vacation with my parents and sister. We were on a bus tour of either Montreal or Quebec (the only two Canadian cities we visited).
The tour guide said the building was an experiment -- instead of actual apartments, the building was divided into cubed rooms. I clearly remember seeing -- through a window -- a ladder inside a room, leading up to another room above and behind (I remember thinking it seemed very Anasazi).
Anyway, I know it's few details, but any help identifying the building would be excellent. I've been thinking about that place lately for some reason.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on April 29, 2006 02:31 PM:
("architecture quebec montreal experimental apartments")
((Also, Montreal is in Quebec.))
See also. Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on April 29, 2006 03:14 PM:
He might have meant Montreal and Quebec City.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on April 29, 2006 05:18 PM:
Wow. I hope it was, because that's plain neato.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on April 29, 2006 07:38 PM:
Eew, that apartment block feel so... COLD. That unrendered cement is what the Engineering Building at uni is like... such a cold feeling to the place - that maybe because it's filled with Engineers though.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on April 29, 2006 11:16 PM:
Yeah, that's it. And yes, I meant Quebec City.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on April 30, 2006 04:15 AM:
Ahem! Ville de Qu�bec, sir, IF you please...!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on April 30, 2006 12:35 PM:
It's got that trendy "parking garage" look. Really, it would not be sooo depressing looking if they invested in some fucking paint! A nice pastel would do- white would have people shooting sci-fi shows there as "alien/advanced humanoid city".
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on April 30, 2006 07:27 PM:
Its funny how so many "advanced" buildings in scifi/could be used in scifi were build decades ago.
I've seen so many different buildings that have been in Vancouver all my life on TV.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on April 30, 2006 07:30 PM:
quote:Originally posted by Shik: Ahem! Ville de Qu�bec, sir, IF you please...!
Yeah, like you/he said, Quebec City.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on May 03, 2006 01:34 AM:
It's just downstream from Three Rivers.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on May 03, 2006 03:48 AM:
There's some speculation that this building helped to inspire the Canadian SF horror movie "Cube", starring David Hewlett and Nicole de Boer (later, Dr. Rodney McKay and Ezri Dax).
Basically, seven total strangers wake up in a nightmare construct consisting entirely of twenty-foot, cube-shaped rooms, most of which are designed to kill you in a variety of gory ways. Each side has a door to the next room, and a series of numbers to identify it. Better still, while there's a code to decipher to get out, the rooms keep moving around. Classic "no way out" horror thrills. Even spawned two crappy sequels!
Mark
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on May 03, 2006 06:24 AM:
Um, I think it's safe to say that most of us know about the film Cube. And that Melbourne is in Australia. Honestly, what is it with you lately? You got a girlfriend, or something?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on May 03, 2006 09:02 AM:
So's your face!
Mark
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on May 03, 2006 05:11 PM:
Oooh, handbags. I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you!