The Soul-Sucking Canada Thread - Page 24

VANRIDERFAN · #**461** Posted **May 20, 2020, 1:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

You're correct but that is not a photo of Tunney's Pasture.

Yep, but the tower is the same as all the others right?

stevanford1 · #**462** Posted **May 20, 2020, 1:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Ugggh!

I like this thread..I can see the humourous intent.
A place where you can like your city, but be self deprecating about it too.

Same here

Acajack · #**463** Posted **May 20, 2020, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN

Yep, but the tower is the same as all the others right?

Yes, the aesthetic* is similar.

*If you can call it that.

stevanford1 · #**464** Posted **May 20, 2020, 2:36 PM**

Very few things are as soulsucking as Place Du Portage!

MolsonExport · #**465** Posted **May 20, 2020, 4:21 PM**

^complexe Guy Favreau in Montreal looks the same.

imtl

Right across the street from the equally soul-sucking Place Desjardins.

tce.
A competition between the Nation (Quebec) and the country (Canada) for the most soul-sucking building complex in Montreal.

IMO Favreau is worse. Desjardins at least has a couple of cool stores.

MolsonExport · #**466** Posted **May 20, 2020, 4:22 PM**

soul sucking toronto

skyscrapercentre

stevanford1 · #**467** Posted **May 20, 2020, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

soul sucking toronto

skyscrapercentre

Equally Wretched.

Razor · #**468** Posted **May 20, 2020, 10:38 PM**

Have a look around..Donald Street plaza..Hidden in this gem's parking lot is a Tim Hortons. Cars will be hanging out there for hours on end as the weather gets warmer..It's okay, if your monopoly piece lands on it, you can afford the rent without even breaking a sweat.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4298...7i16384!8i8192

stevanford1 · #**469** Posted **May 21, 2020, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Have a look around..Donald Street plaza..Hidden in this gem's parking lot is a Tim Hortons. Cars will be hanging out there for hours on end as the weather gets warmer..It's okay, if your monopoly piece lands on it, you can afford the rent without even breaking a sweat.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4298...7i16384!8i8192

Also hideous!
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0430...7i13312!8i6656

harls · #**470** Posted **May 21, 2020, 5:52 AM**

I like to think of Stevanford1 and MolsonExport as long lost brothers who were separated at birth and have finally found each other.

harls · #**471** Posted **May 21, 2020, 5:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Very few things are as soulsucking as Place Du Portage!

This ugly hunk of horse doody is supposed to be renovated.

https://www.link2build.ca/news/artic...r-renovations/

Oops, the buildings to the right of this monstrosity.

Spocket · #**472** Posted **May 21, 2020, 6:09 AM**

I don't know. The greenery makes it somewhat pleasing, to be honest.

stevanford1 · #**473** Posted **May 21, 2020, 10:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

This ugly hunk of horse doody is supposed to be renovated.

https://www.link2build.ca/news/artic...r-renovations/

Oops, the buildings to the right of this monstrosity.

Still ugly, just 0.1 percent less ugly!

Franco401 · #**474** Posted **May 21, 2020, 12:59 PM**

Like the Ugly thread before it, this thread turns into "Concrete bad".

MolsonExport · #**475** Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

I like to think of Stevanford1 and MolsonExport as long lost brothers who were separated at birth and have finally found each other.

Maybe we are the deWooters, which may be badly needed in a forum that is populated by a lot of Woot-wooters (extreme homerism: some sort of over-the-top narcissistic pride that somehow metastasized from a skyline/city to a person). I like being able to poke fun at places that I live in or that I have visited. My undying love for Montreal does not preclude me from calling out the Residence Soleil (Clockzilla) as a massively ugly turd of a building. I heap plenty of praise where it is warranted too, but some people on SSP have Donald-thin skin if you dare question some population statistic or point out that some aspect of their skyline or urban fabric is less than perfect.

stevanford1 · #**476** Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Maybe we are the deWooters, which may be badly needed in a forum that is populated by a lot of Woot-wooters (extreme homerism: some sort of over-the-top narcissistic pride that somehow metastasized from a skyline/city to a person). I like being able to poke fun at places that I live in or that I have visited. My undying love for Montreal does not preclude me from calling out the Residence Soleil (Clockzilla) as a massively ugly turd of a building. I heap plenty of praise where it is warranted too, but some people on SSP have Donald-thin skin if you dare question some population statistic or point out that some aspect of their skyline or urban fabric is less than perfect.

. Yes I agree about the people who get their panties into a twist every time you so much as look at their city in a negative context. I am a Torontonian and yes I love my city, but that doesn't mean that Bloor Dundas Square and New York Towers aren't brutal!

Acajack · #**477** Posted **May 21, 2020, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

This ugly hunk of horse doody is supposed to be renovated.

https://www.link2build.ca/news/artic...r-renovations/

Oops, the buildings to the right of this monstrosity.

Based on the renderings so far, I think I'd prefer the current look and just refurbish it a bit.