Where was Altered Carbon filmed
Altered Carbon
Year: 2018
Country: Canada
<p>Altered Carbon was filmed in Vancouver, Britannia Beach, & Squamish in Canada.</p>
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Locations
1333 West Georgia Street
In movie
Scene where Prescott escorts Kovacs to the company where the Bancroft sleeves are manufactured in episode 1x02 “Fallen Angel”.
Aerospace Technology Campus (BCIT)
In movie
Scene where Kovaks talks to the employees at the company the manufactures the Bancroft's clone sleeves and watches as Laurens Bancroft needlecasts back from overseas in episode 1x02 “Fallen Angel”.
Real
Scene was shot A new campus for the British Columbia Institute of Technology that opened in 2007 by the Vancouver International Airport specializing in training aircraft maintenance, commercial piloting, and airport operations.
BC Place Stadium
In movie
Scene where Mary Lou Henchy is chased to the roof by Rei and decides to jump off rather than be captured in episode 1x09 “Rage in Heaven”.
Real
Scene was shot A large stadium in Vancouver’s downtown, BC Place originally opened in 1983 and featured an inflatable roof. After the roof was torn and deflated in 2007, the stadium was renovated and a retractable roof was installed (those tall columns above the building support the new roof).
Britannia Mine Museum
In movie
Scene where Tak leads a CTAC assault team on his home planet but turns on them after encountering his sister in episode 1x07 “Nora Inu”.
Real
Scene was shot Built inside the former Concentrator building of a copper mine, the Britannia Mine Museum is a National Historic Site which educates visitors on British Columbia’s mining industry. The processing facility operated for seventy years starting in 1904, with Mill #3 constructed in 1923. No mining actually took place in these tunnels as they were used to transport ore to the Howe Sound.
Canada Post Main Office
In movie
Scene where Ortega wakes up in the morning and asks her tracking program to inform her if Kovaks moves in episode 1x02 “Fallen Angel”. Ortega brings her grandmother home in a borrowed sleeve to celebrate Día de los Muertos with the rest of the family in episode 1x04 “Force of Evil”. Kovacs reveals to Ortega that the duplicate body survived in episode 1x10 “The Killers”.
Real
Scene was shot This large building that takes up an entire block in downtown Vancouver was the main Canada Post sorting facility since 1958 until it was sold in 2013 when a new facility near the airport opened. The site originally included a kilometer long underground tunnel leading to the waterfront so mail could be taken directly from ships to the facility. The offices have become very popular with productions since their shutdown, with some even using them as sound stages.
Catalyst Paper Corporation
In movie
Scene where Kovaks talks to Bancroft while he is visiting infected children in episode 1x05 “The Wrong Man”.
Real
Scene was shot Formerly a paper recycling facility, this plant has been shut down for a number of years and is now used exclusively for film productions.
Crease Clinic (Riverview Hospital)
In movie
Scene where Kovacs is put through orientation with the other awoken prisoners and then taken for a meeting with the warden in episode 1x01 “Out of the Past”.
Real
Scene was shot This building opened in 1934 as a veterans treatment center for veterans of the First World War. This included the main building as well as the separate Veterans Dining Block. The main building was expanded in 1945 and reopened in 1949 as the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine, a short-term psychological treatment center. Now used almost exclusively for film production.
Marine Building
In movie
Scene where Miriam Bancroft takes Kovacs into the mansion and shows off the Song Spire Tree that she had imported in episode 1x01 “Out of the Past”. Kovaks mingles in the party as a guest while Elliot poses as a waiter. Ortega spots Kovaks in the crowd and then heads off to talk with the fighters in episode 1x03 “In a Lonely Place”.
Real
Scene was shot An Art Deco skyscraper built in 1930 which was the tallest building in the British Empire when it opened. A Vancouver heritage building.
Minaty Bay
In movie
Scene where Kovaks remembers playing with his sister on the shore when both of them were young in episode 1x01 “Out of the Past”. Quell reveals her connection to the stacks to Tak and they have sex in episode 1x07 “Nora Inu”.
Real
Scene was shot This private bay just to the south of Britannia Beach is surrounded by imposing mountains and gives the impression of incredible remoteness while being very accessible via the Sea to Sky Highway.
Museum of Anthropology (UBC)
In movie
Scene where The rebel team infiltrates the garrison to steal the codes needed to needlecast to the central core in episode 1x07 “Nora Inu”.
Real
Scene was shot The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology is a tourist as well as research and teaching museum. A major focus of the collection is on First Nation works of the Pacific Northwest. The building was constructed in 1976 by the architect Arthur Erickson in the post-and-beam architectural style of the coastal First Nations people.