#Montreal's Biosphere

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𝔐𝔬𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩'𝔰 𝔅𝔦𝔬𝔰𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔫 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔦𝔫 𝔐𝔞𝔶 𝔬𝔣 յգԴճ.

📷 @𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔰_𝔐𝔱𝔩

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Jean-Drapeau Park, Montreal

📸 1991 Canon Photura

🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400

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American Pavilion, Expo 67

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The Montreal Biosphere (environment museum), housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67.

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Click:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMM9TmGhH/

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Impressions Photographique de Montréal

Impressions Photographique de Montréal

It took a few days of walking, cycling, and driving around Montréal before Leah and I found our bearings from atop Mont Royal. We roamed the rues and parcs of the city in search of historic, cultural, and architectural significance–with an emphasis on good food…and we found it in many of the neighborhoods we visited. Nouilles de Lan Zhou – Noodle Shop We followed in the steps of 6 million…

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Dome Sweet Dome

Don't forget there is also a video that shows you the entirety of this very unique location!!

https://youtu.be/kuhg83VrQb4

And finally in today's post we will be taking a look at the second floor, the outbuildings as well as a few close-up photos of this unique location!

In this week's post we will be exploring a geodesic dome house that has been sitting abandoned for about 10 years.

The first geodesic dome was designed after World War I by Walter Bauersfield who was the chief engineer at Carl Zeiss Jena, to build a planetarium.  But in 1946 Richard Buckminster Fuller coined the term "geodesic".  Using triangular shapes it is an extremely strong, light and efficient way of enclosing space.

Geodesic domes have mostly been created for specialised uses such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956.  While most of those domes are now gone or destroyed the design can still be seen today in more well known places such as Spaceship Earth at Epcot built in 1982, Science World in Vancouver built for Expo '86, The Climatron greenhouse at Missouri Botanical Gardens built in 1960 or even the Montreal Biosphere built for Expo '67.

Dome homes have been less successful than their commercial counterparts mostly because of their complexity and greater construction costs.  In 1986, a patent for a dome construction technique involving polystyrene triangles laminated to reinforced concrete on the outside, and wallboard on the inside was awarded to American Ingenuity of Rockledge, Florida.  This technique allowed homes to be prefabricated and assembled from a kit purchased by a homeowner.  It appears as though this particular dome used a similar technique.

Although using geodesic domes for houses never really took off, they seem to have had a bit of a resurgence in popularity when it comes to vacation homes in areas of great natural beauty.  These structures are built more like tents and often have large swathes of windows for extraordinary views of the surrounding landscapes.

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My trip to Montreal

& the Sleep Token show

(long post below)

The Trip:

I went with my sister, who did the driving. The drive there was awesome. We left at 5:30 a.m. and there was no traffic at all. The border took five minutes. We laughed at the "warning Canada ahead" sign (that was like five feet in front of the border 😂)

It was like an hour of driving through massive farms before we reached the city? Idk why but I didn't expect the farms.

Driving in Montreal was another story. It was terrifying 😭 I have car anxiety in general but it was so stressful. It made traffic in Boston not seem so bad. The way the lanes were marked was confusing to us, and some of the signs were also confusing. We hit a speed bump going crazy fast because we had no idea what the sign meant and the actual bump on the ground wasn't yellow (now it seems obvious though, ok 🤷🏼‍♀️😂) and the buses drive crazy fast and one cut us off and almost hit us.

Our phones didn't work as soon as we crossed the border. We tried to add a global package to our plans but it still didn't work. This was only a major problem because we needed GPS. If we missed a turn we would have to find a Harvey's or Starbucks or something to get their wifi and reroute. It took us a long time to get to Laval 😂

Once we got to the hotel we parked the car and didn't use it again until we left. But we took taxis and that was cool! I don't think I've ever taken a taxi before and the drivers were really nice.

We loved our hotel and we could see Place Bell from our window. The area was so nice, and very clean for a city. It feels like Laval is an up-and-coming city because of all the construction we saw, and our hotel was also new apparently.

Everything was so cheap? The lattes I bought were like $6 CAD so $4.40 USD. In my hometown, lattes are double that. All the food and snacks were such a good deal. I stopped obsessively checking my bank account after a while because everything seemed so inexpensive 😂 (Also, I'm a cheap person so this is saying something lol)

It was more of a culture shock than I expected. I knew it was going to be a lot of French but I guess I didn't grasp the reality of that until I was there. Thank God I took french in high school. I could not really hold a conversation, but I could read some signs and menus and kind've get the jist of what people were saying to me.

Everyone was so kind and helpful. We asked a lot of strangers questions and they were all very nice. I only had two small experiences with rude people (and I laughed about it)

Crosswalks were also a bit scary lol. It was weird that some cars still go when the crosswalk button goes off. In my area, all directions of traffic stop while people cross.

My hotel was 50 % people with Sleep Token shirts and 50 % hockey players 😂

We LOVE Tim Hortons 😍 Their iced mocha latte was amazing. I wish I had one in my town now.

Three days went by so fast! It felt like one day.

We went to Mount Royal Park, the Cosmodome, the Biosphere, and La Rhonde. I rode the ferris wheel even though I'm scared of heights. I think my heart stopped for a second but the view was beautiful. 😂🥰

Some random things we noticed- nobody really wears jeans or Crocs 🤷🏼‍♀️😂 everyone dresses a bit nicer. And we didn't see any cops besides event security the entire time we were there, which is unheard of in Massachusetts, I see cops drive by twenty times a day everyday probably. There were lilacs everywhere which I loved. So many people biked- it made me want to be more healthy and active. Public transport seemed very available and I'm jealous of that because public transport where I am is trash.

Can you drink in public? Idk, but we saw a guy drinking a twisted tea while casually crossing the road lol.

The Show:

People were lined up starting around 7 pm the night before 👀

At 5:30 a.m. there was maybe ten or fifteen people camped out with tents and everything. I applaud their dedication, but I could never 😭

I kept an eye on the line and once the merch stand opened I went over and bought a shirt beforehand. I got a t-shirt with the tour dates on it 🖤

The line system seemed really unorganized. Nobody knew what line went where. Besides that, getting inside was easy and I liked the venue.

Our seats had a good view, but we were so high up it made me a bit anxious. It was a little hard to see III because of the fog/lights, and Espera was kind've blocked by a light fixture, but I had a great view of IV and II which made me really happy 🥰

ESB's opening set: So, they are not exactly my cup of tea BUT I don't think they deserve the hate they've been getting. My only problem was that the singers scream sounded the same over and over. I wasn't sure if he was saying the same phrase or not, but it made every song sound the same. They did have some good moments though! There was a moment where he screamed lower/more gutteral and I liked that more. There was also a moment where the guitar and instruments sounded really cool but I can't explain it. I was glad to see they had a little mosh pit going too.

Sleep Token was amazing as expected. I'm forever in awe of how good Vessel sounds live. I was so happy I could see II good too, I loved watching his little dances and hand gestures. I saw III do his little swimming motion and he did get a pit! A pretty big one too from what I saw. I didn't expect them to hand out drumsticks and stuff so early, because they didn't play TMBTE or Euclid yet- but they were just doing that fake-out encore thing I guess. 😂

I love the diversity of the fans at their shows- all types of people and all ages and it's so nice to see 🖤 The guy sitting beside me did not look like someone I would expect to listen to Sleep Token, but he was singing every word and recording all the same parts of their songs as me 😂

After the show I got to meet @shatterthefragments !!! It was so great, and they made awesome ST keychains- I will treasure mine forever 🖤

I still haven't really processed any of this yet because after the show I was constantly busy- between packing up and doing the few last things we wanted to do in the city, and then driving five hours back home. There's videos and pictures from this weekend that I haven't even looked at yet. I will definitely post some videos or photos here soon though

Overall, I give this trip a 9/10

I'm so glad I impulsively bought tickets and got my passport renewed. It was so fun and it makes me wanna travel more in the future. 🖤

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The Biosphere is a museum in Montreal dedicated to the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair, Expo 67. The museum's geodesic dome was designed by Buckminster Fuller. Photo ca 1976 #brutgroup https://www.instagram.com/p/CnkoAeJMsya/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Things from this week's grill the grid I enjoyed

The scale of good at geography is from:

Max (incredible at it) to Guanyu (Cannot find Europe 😭 ily beloved boy)

George mapping out west asia so well I was so impressed and then he couldn't find Japan

He also put Big Ben in "The Mighty United Kingdom" and fulfilled every stereotype

Carlos and Fernando failing to place the landmark in Barcelona and rather dropping it in France made me laugh

Lance being like "GIVE ME A SECOND I WANNA FIGURE IT OUT"

Britcedes actually not flopping here I love to see it good job boys

Imagine my surprise, thinking that Max had stormed to victory in the round to find that actually Charles beat him!

Lance post credits dropping facts about the biosphere in Montreal and being like next year we should do facts as well

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oscar in the new grill the grid looking at the biosphere in montreal and realizing "there's even a canadian flag on it" and visibly going through every stage of grief simultaneously like okay maybe he's endearing himself to me . perhaps

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Still/In Motion: time-lapsed montages of starling murmurations. The photographs of Kathryn Cooper combine multiple high-resolution frames, in a modern version of chronophotography – which was used in early studies of motion in the Victorian era – to capture the fluid movement of migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The dramatic shapes the birds create in the sky become a series of dynamic patterns revealing behaviour invisible to the naked eye. Part of an Exhibition at Montreal Biosphere, Parc Jean-Drapeau, 10 June 2023–20 May 2024 / Guardian #migrating #starking #murmurations #yorkshire #kathryncooper

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if anyone is visiting montreal this summer i have a bunch of free tickets for the 5 different science & nature museums in the city, & i have no use for them (since im employed there)

biodome 🐧 (1 ticket) <- expires soon!!

planetarium 🪐 (4 tickets)

insectarium 🦋 (4 tickets)

botanical garden 🌿 (3 tickets)

biosphere 🌎 (4 tickets)

they all expire on august 31st EXCEPT for the biodome, which expires on june 30th

hmu if ur interested i just dont wanna let them go to waste