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This postcard from 1970 depicts a futuristic medical school where students travel to class by air. Inaugurated in 1957, Université Laval’s Ferdinand-Vandry Pavilion, with its impressive curtain wall, already displayed some of the characteristics of modern architecture. However, the artist behind this sketch has added a helipad at the building’s entrance!
1969 - 1972

Visionary Québec City: Back to the (city’s) future

The fertile human imagination is sometimes limited only by the means available to achieve its ambitions. Right here in Québec City, all kinds of visionary projects never did materialize. This album is inspired by the way the future, progress and science fiction were imagined in the early 1970s. Get a glimpse of a “future” Québec City through these old projects that never happened. Realistic or not? You be the judge! Do you have any memories of projects like this?

A futuristic Université Laval

Auteur inconnu This postcard from 1970 depicts a futuristic medical school where students travel to class by air. Inaugurated in 1957, Université Laval’s Ferdinand-Vandry Pavilion, with its impressive curtain wall, already displayed some of the characteristics of modern architecture. However, the artist behind this sketch has added a helipad at the building’s entrance!
Chronoscope Can you comment on this image? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Yves Beauregard Fonds P119 (unprocessed fonds but digitized image) - Date: 1970