I have an idea for a new thread...

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Is that really the interior? And why am I even asking about a meme?

Short answer: No, it's not. 

 

Long answer: Looks like one of those Airstream jobs, going by the curved rear glass and elongated porthole windows above the sink

[Blokman]

Looks like a rectangular version of the Ponti City building in Hillbrow.

 

Last time I heard it had developed a major garbage dump in the inner ground floor area as a result of trash being tossed from the upper floors. I wonder if the owners have fixed it yet?

We just drove past it yesterday and it gives me the creeps. As a high school boy we watched it being built. Mate of mine lived in Hillbrow. It was initially designed as modern , all in one , hip place to live.

In the early 1980's I worked for a flooring co. that did some repairs and tiling there.

Looking down fifty or so storeys into that dark core scared the dinges out of me. You see the actual rocks of the koppie it's built on in the middle. For me it was like something out of a dark futuristic film.

Edited February 18, 2019 by Blokman

[Fruity]

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[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

We just drove past it yesterday and it gives me the creeps. As a high school boy we watched it being built. Mate of mine lived in Hillbrow. It was initially designed as modern , all in one , hip place to live.

In the early 1980's I worked for a flooring co. that did some repairs and tiling there.

Looking down fifty or so storeys into that dark core scared the dinges out of me. You see the actual rocks of the koppie it's built on in the middle. For me it was like something out of a dark futuristic film.

Reminds me of that one apartment block in the newer Judge Dredd film. 

[Piston ZA]

Reminds me of that one apartment block in the newer Judge Dredd film. 

Not saying it was the same building, but wasn't that filmed in SA?

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

dunno... 

[Odinson]

Not saying it was the same building, but wasn't that filmed in SA?

 

Yip

 

 

 

With a $45 million production budget, filming began on 12 November 2010 in Cape Town and took approximately 13 weeks, with second unit photography occurring over seven weeks.^[4][36][45] Filming locations included Johannesburg and Cape Town Film Studios (Dredd was the first project filmed at the studio).^[2][46] The project involved a majority of Cape Town crew members and about 40 imported crew. The producers chose to film in South Africa because of the lowered cost of employing cast and crew compared to locations in Europe and North America, and government incentives that offered to rebate up to 25% of the production costs.^[46]

[Piston ZA]

Yip

Also from Wikipedia about Ponte:

 

Movies[edit]

• One of the final shots of the 2009 film District 9 is of the tower.^[9]
• Director Philip Bloom dedicated a documentary film titled Ponte Tower.^[10]
• Ingrid Martens filmed the documentary Africa Shafted: Under one Roof,^[11] entirely, over two and a half years, in the Ponte lifts.
• The skyscraper "Peach Trees" featured in the 2012 South African film Dredd is heavily inspired by Ponte tower.
• The final scene of the 2014 movie SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines was shot in this location.
• One of the scenes of the 2015 movie Chappie was shot in this location.^[12]
• A battle scene was filmed inside the tower for the 2016 movie Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.^[13]

[Odinson]

 

Also from Wikipedia about Ponte:

 

Movies[edit]

• One of the final shots of the 2009 film District 9 is of the tower.^[9]
• Director Philip Bloom dedicated a documentary film titled Ponte Tower.^[10]
• Ingrid Martens filmed the documentary Africa Shafted: Under one Roof,^[11] entirely, over two and a half years, in the Ponte lifts.
• The skyscraper "Peach Trees" featured in the 2012 South African film Dredd is heavily inspired by Ponte tower.
• The final scene of the 2014 movie SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines was shot in this location.
• One of the scenes of the 2015 movie Chappie was shot in this location.^[12]
• A battle scene was filmed inside the tower for the 2016 movie Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.^[13]

 

 

You know you live in a shithole when Hollywood comes to shoot post-apocalyptic action/horror movies in your apartment building. 

[nathrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uqrLin0sV0

[Eddy Gordo]

Was filmed in and around the civic center amd other places

 

 

Not saying it was the same building, but wasn't that filmed in SA?

[Long Wheel Base]

[DJR]

I would have had to change bibs after that and the truck driver would have heard things my mother never taught me (Capetonians will understand)

[Hairy]

or your mothers purse?

Something that rhymes with masterfoods?

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

To be fair to the driver, there's no way he could have seen the guy on his bike. I reckon blind spot cameras should be standard fitment on trucks, to cater for instances like this and for pedestrian & other motorists' safety. 

[Hairy]

K@K story, at some point leading up to that clip the truck would have passed the cyclist, and he is knowingly crossing over a dedicated cycle lane, he should be checking.

 

To be fair to the driver, there's no way he could have seen the guy on his bike. I reckon blind spot cameras should be standard fitment on trucks, to cater for instances like this and for pedestrian & other motorists' safety.