Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 377

O-tacular · #**7521** Posted **Aug 17, 2024, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

It looks like a row of loading bays.

That’s exactly what it is! You’ve summed it up perfectly. Human warehouses. Here’s a similar view:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/E6LdXzap27wQ4c9b8?g_st=ic

WhipperSnapper · #**7522** Posted **Aug 17, 2024, 1:50 PM**

can't decide what's worse. the current skyscrapers in parking lot hell or when all those parking lots become hundreds of more skyscrapers.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.79578...5410&entry=ttu

O-tacular · #**7523** Posted **Aug 18, 2024, 7:50 PM**

Eddy Savoie and Laval better take note. Dubai is throwing shade at Clockzilla!

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Now known as Aternitas Tower: 450m & 105 floors

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/posts/189361941/

Gresto · #**7524** Posted **Aug 18, 2024, 8:30 PM**

Yikes, leave it to Dubai to come up with the most horrendous schlock ever to assault the eyes of unwitting onlookers.

Wigs · #**7525** Posted **Aug 18, 2024, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Awful design. But great views

O-tacular · #**7526** Posted **Aug 18, 2024, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

Awful design. But great views

Reminds me a bit of Drumheller (smaller valley and hills though). Something so ugly as this compound doesn’t belong in such a nice vista.

Wigs · #**7527** Posted **Aug 18, 2024, 10:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Reminds me a bit of Drumheller (smaller valley and hills though). Something so ugly as this compound doesn’t belong in such a nice vista.

Yeah definitely looks like something near but not in Drumheller. Transition area into full Badlands

MolsonExport · #**7528** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 2:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Eddy Savoie and Laval better take note. Dubai is throwing shade at Clockzilla!

Is this real? good lord.

Dubai, man. It just never ends. The amount of money that this place takes in is just staggering.

Proof Sheet · #**7529** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 3:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Is this real? good lord.

Dubai, man. It just never ends. The amount of money that this place takes in is just staggering.

Most of the worlds city building sins can be found in Dubai. Ugly buildings that are built without a real reason to build them, huge car dependency, huge environmental footprint, huge changes to shorelines, a great reliance on foreign labour that is taken advantage of and a place that 'influencers' go to in order to shill their products all contribute to a place that I'm in no rush to visit. Put it in the same category as Vegas and Orlando for me.

Jaws · #**7530** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 4:40 PM**

This is so wrong on so many levels. I'm sure this is the ugliest house in the country.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...ximage&image=1

MolsonExport · #**7531** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Most of the worlds city building sins can be found in Dubai. Ugly buildings that are built without a real reason to build them, huge car dependency, huge environmental footprint, huge changes to shorelines, a great reliance on foreign labour that is taken advantage of and a place that 'influencers' go to in order to shill their products all contribute to a place that I'm in no rush to visit. Put it in the same category as Vegas and Orlando for me.

Well said. I've travelled all over the world (something like 25 countries to date, 4 continents), but I have never (yet) visited Dubai, Orlando, or Vegas. All three places are not on my bucket list.

Of the three, I am most likely to visit Dubai, just because it is so over-the-top, and because it is a major transfer hub.

I hope to never visit Orlando.

MonctonRad · #**7532** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 5:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I hope to never visit Orlando.

Mickey sad..........

Wigs · #**7533** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 5:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jaws

This is so wrong on so many levels. I'm sure this is the ugliest house in the country.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...ximage&image=1

It looks really big from that first photo, until you realize half of the footprint is garages

Weird layout and low ceilings for a ~2,900 sq ft redneck ranch property

Wigs · #**7534** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 5:41 PM**

c.1973 snout condo townhouse. Weird entryway considering it's an end unit

Interior somehow has a better layout than Sask-a-ranch

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...-niagara-falls

MonctonRad · #**7535** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 5:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

It looks really big from that first photo, until you realize half of the footprint is garages

Weird layout and low ceilings for a ~2,900 sq ft redneck ranch property

The inside is worse than the outside!!!

Wigs · #**7536** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 6:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The inside is worse than the outside!!!

A complete mishmash of Fugly. Poor layout/design/finishes

MolsonExport · #**7537** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 6:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Mickey sad..........

I reckon Disneyworld is fun for kids. For adults....well, I don't care for rides. I have no tolerance for queuing in the hot Floridian sun for hours, or paying 16$USD for a hotdog. I heard from colleagues that budgeting for the "Magic Kingdom" for a family of four is something like $2K per day.

And there is no beach in Orlando.

I'd rather be just about anywhere else in Europe or Asia.

I've been to Florida. Meh.

Now Hawaii, that's a place that is worth the insane prices. So much so, that I have been there four times (2001-Oahu, 2005-Maui [Honeymoon], 2011-"Big Island", 2024-Kauai).

MonctonRad · #**7538** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I reckon Disneyworld is fun for kids. For adults....well, I don't care for rides. I have no tolerance for queuing in the hot Floridian sun for hours, or paying 16$USD for a hotdog. I heard from colleagues that budgeting for the "Magic Kingdom" for a family of four is something like $2K per day.

I went to Disney World this last spring for the third time. This time we footed the entire bill for myself, my wife, our three sons, two significant others and two grandchildren (nine people). We booked two villa level suites at the Animal Kingdom Lodge for eight days, got seven day multipark passes, and full meal packages for all nine people, and, paid for flights to and from Florida. Now, convert the cost from USD to CDN, and try to imagine just how much it cost.

Try harder.

Harder still..............

But, a fun time was had by all.

Thank God I'm a rich doctor.

Wigs · #**7539** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 6:44 PM**

Disney just gave tourists another reason not to visit, besides high cost. Ugly company

https://globalnews.ca/news/10698866/...death-lawsuit/

MonctonRad · #**7540** Posted **Aug 19, 2024, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

Disney just gave tourists another reason not to visit, besides high cost. Ugly company

https://globalnews.ca/news/10698866/...death-lawsuit/

Stupid legal argument. Horrible PR. Just negotiate a settlement and make it go away FFS!!!