Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas)

[Architype]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

well, those long windows look like long 'logs', so maybe.

I think what bothers me about these patterns is that they are not regular, and they are not random. They are pseudo-random.

It bothers me. And this goes back to the fuglies of the 1970s that I experienced in my hometown (Montreal). Behold le Cantlie (balconies don't line up):
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Most buildings could be better with some greenery. I wonder how much adding greenery (nature bandages) to the tops of buildings (as well as on the ground) helps erase any perceived ugliness that might be there without it. We've become accustomed to this look in Vancouver, it seems to counteract a multitude of sins. Here's a good example in the Mt Pleasant area.


(my photo)

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Architype

Most buildings could be better with some greenery. I wonder how much adding greenery (nature bandages) to the tops of buildings (as well as on the ground) helps erase any perceived ugliness that might be there without it. We've become accustomed to this look in Vancouver, it seems to counteract a multitude of sins. Here's a good example in the Mt Pleasant area.


(my photo)

Dude, I came here for the Ugly horror porn! Don’t go prettifying this thread. I need some eye bleach or more photo updates of student housing ghettos in Kitchener/ Waterloo now.

[WhipperSnapper]

Vancouver does not need greenery on rooftops. They have trees taller than high rises.

best example I could find in the time I want to send finding one.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.26395...5410&entry=ttu

[WhipperSnapper]

The Envie towers are ugly but find me private student rentals that aren't. The worst aspect is the nearness of the glass condo tower to the Envie student housing. Toronto's tower spacing is questionably pro development. Ottawa doesn't seem to have any minimums whatsoever.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Dude, I came here for the Ugly horror porn! Don’t go prettifying this thread. I need some eye bleach or more photo updates of student housing ghettos in Kitchener/ Waterloo now.

This is American, but it's so close to Canada, you won't even notice the difference.


(seen on Facebook)

[O-tacular]

Is that projection off the front another double car garage attached to the side barnacle garage? The proportions are astonishingly ugly.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is that projection off the front another double car garage attached to the side barnacle garage? The proportions are astonishingly ugly.

I think it is, and in this case, removing it would not really help much. Make America garage again!

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by Architype

I think it is, and in this case, removing it would not really help much. Make America garage again!

What are the odds that the garage (enough for 4 cars) is full of junk and very few if any cars.

[WhipperSnapper]

A house like that needs lots of toys like a lawn tractor, snowblower, generator, winter storage. That's what I would expect in that front space if it's a garage. Perhaps the front facing garages weren't deep enough for all the accessories stored behind the car parking.

That's an ugly house.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is that projection off the front another double car garage attached to the side barnacle garage? The proportions are astonishingly ugly.

Must be.

Garages. The more you have, the less you use them to house vehicles. My neighbour has three garages, and ALWAYS has at least 6 vehicles parked on his driveway. Very, very often, his vehicles are parked up along the side of the street, 4 or more vehicles in a row, because he is, I dunno, working on his fucking boat or fifth wheeler, or something. Engine man. 2 vehicles per person in a 5-person household. New money, of course. He'd be right at home in Fort Mac&Cheese.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Must be.

Garages. The more you have, the less you use them to house vehicles. My neighbour has three garages, and ALWAYS has at least 6 vehicles parked on his driveway. Very, very often, his vehicles are parked up along the side of the street, 4 or more vehicles in a row, because he is, I dunno, working on his fucking boat or fifth wheeler, or something. Engine man. 2 vehicles per person in a 5-person household. New money, of course. He'd be right at home in Fort Mac&Cheese.

I think this minivan has been parked on the driveway (with its 2 other companions that you can't see from streetview) since at least 1992. The punchbuggy could be from 1979.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9835...5409&entry=ttu

Speaking of garages full of shit, this is a typical view near where I live. Always trucks and SUV's and work vans. Garages full of crap. Why not store shit in your basement? Astonishing you'd pay for the convenience of an attached garage at the front, to never actually use it for your vehicles. Why not save the money and get a detached garage so your ugly crap is only seen from the alley? At least then you'd have an actual front yard and not a tiny strip of sod and weeds.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8844...5409&entry=ttu

[MolsonExport]

The driveway to lawn ratio is incredible, but alas, is par for the course in most new SFH builds.

Sometimes there appears to be more square footage within the sum total of the vehicles than in the house they are parked in front of.

This just looks horrible (check out the soul patch of grass in the foreground). And greatly increases the water runoff into the storm sewers.

[MolsonExport]

No wonder Alberta is considered part of the Great Plains:

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The driveway to lawn ratio is incredible, but alas, is par for the course in most new SFH builds.

Sometimes there appears to be more square footage within the sum total of the vehicles than in the house they are parked in front of.

This just looks horrible (check out the soul patch of grass in the foreground). And greatly increases the water runoff into the storm sewers.

What's with that little trapezoidal patch of grass between the two driveways? I mean, why even friggin' bother???

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

What's with that little trapezoidal patch of grass between the two driveways? I mean, why even friggin' bother???

I guess each neighbour takes it in turns to mow it (or get out some scissors). Luckily Calgary doesn't get much snow as there isn't much of a place to pile the snow.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Architype

This is American, but it's so close to Canada, you won't even notice the difference.


(seen on Facebook)

Montana’s answer to North Dakota’s quad garage McMansion:

https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-...ontana-awaits/







I can almost smell the old man hemorrhoid cream mixed with the leather couch:

[MolsonExport]

Dumpian Tastes.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

What's with that little trapezoidal patch of grass between the two driveways? I mean, why even friggin' bother???

It’s the architectural version of a ‘landing strip’. Or maybe just a merkin.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The driveway to lawn ratio is incredible, but alas, is par for the course in most new SFH builds.

Sometimes there appears to be more square footage within the sum total of the vehicles than in the house they are parked in front of.

This just looks horrible (check out the soul patch of grass in the foreground). And greatly increases the water runoff into the storm sewers.

New community with practical unidriveways from the get go:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pEWzSZinh8qnYrgd7?g_st=ic

What’s more attractive, the houses or the dumpsters?

[Architype]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

New community with practical unidriveways from the get go:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pEWzSZinh8qnYrgd7?g_st=ic

What’s more attractive, the houses or the dumpsters?

It looks like a row of loading bays.