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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.
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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.
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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".
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quote:Originally posted by Shik: Ahem! Ville de Qu�bec, sir, IF you please...!
Yeah, like you/he said, Quebec City.
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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!
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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?
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