High school emptied by threat
An unspecified threat forced the evacuation of Père-Marquette school Friday morning in Petite‑Patrie, but I’m mostly posting this because isn’t that an absolute gem of Quebec brutalist educational architecture?
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Kate
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Nicholas 14:15 on 2024-11-29 Permalink
It’s even worse than Jeanne Mance high school in the Plateau. Biking by Père Marquette on Bellechasse really is an experience.
dhomas 18:03 on 2024-11-29 Permalink
Have you ever seen Louis-Joseph Papineau school, in Saint-Michel? They finally started adding windows last year, but until then, there was not a single window in the place. I never understood it when I lived around there. The place looked like a prison.
Here’s some info about the work being done:
https://louis-joseph-papineau.cssdm.gouv.qc.ca/notre-ecole/travaux/
Google Maps will still show you how it looked before. Truly atrocious.
Kate 19:10 on 2024-11-29 Permalink
You aren’t kidding, dhomas. That’s from 2022 and the whole thing looks like a prison.
I suppose the theory was that windows in a classroom create a distraction?
Reddit had a post about that school a few months ago, in the UrbanHell subreddit.