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

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by Wigs

I found one of the ugliest newer build homes in Canada.

1421 Loudoun Road, Winnipeg
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dTc2twvq7qZf7vU26
Located in the SW section of the city south of Charleswood. Says built in 2015, roughly 5,400 sq ft, asking an absurd $4.5M




O-tac, what are those awful exterior panels called?






edit: just noticed the wine rack shown in video..in complete full sun exposure on the wall. Making Vinegar! haha

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29054971/1421-loudoun-road-winnipeg-charleswood



complete with one of the most obnoxious realtor videos. The interior looks better than the exterior lol
• Video Link

Tabarnak.

2/10

[TorontoDrew]

It kind of looks like a 90's elementary school.

[MolsonExport]

The interior finishing is also awful. Truly a — ugly house. An architectural monstrosity.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The interior finishing is also awful. Truly a — ugly house. An architectural monstrosity.

At this point, there are no limits to ugliness anymore.
It’s a race to the —-om!!

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

At this point, there are no limits to ugliness anymore.
It’s a race to the —-om!!

I've always appreciated your contributions, FrAnKs. I read that in a Québécois accent. Thanks for making me laugh

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by Wigs

I've always appreciated your contributions, FrAnKs. I read that in a Québécois accent. Thanks for making me laugh

You’re welcome!

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

It kind of looks like a 90's elementary school.

In Florida. It's just missing those outdoor-walkway canopies.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

It kind of looks like a 90's elementary school.

It also looks like a new-fangled outsider cult religious building, it could be a Kingdom Hall or some new age evangelical church. One of the few things not ugly is the 1960 T-Bird in the garage.

[TorontoDrew]

It screams: Single, divorced man in his mid-50s with no kids or alimony to pay.

[Mr Tall Forehead]

It kind of reminds me of the car that Homer Simpson designed that was so stupid that it bankrupted his estranged brother's car company.

[O-tacular]

This beast from Calgary is nicer on the materials front than the Winnipeg school/ cult compound, but forumers nicknamed it the Mazda dealer house. It has tacky astroturf on the front strip along the street with an illegal No Parking sign. Took down 2 houses and spent years in construction. Lost a nice mature tree for a sterile, lot with not a patch of vegetation on it.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[TorontoDrew]

Lets move on.

I give you St Clair Place, which takes up an entire city block.

St. Clair Place_001 by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

This is the residential main entrance side.
St. Clair Place_002 by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

And this has been shown before, but I can't think of any building uglier than this in Toronto.

Bloor Dundas Square_001 by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

Bloor Dundas Square_002 by Andrew Moore, on Flickr

[O-tacular]

[MolsonExport]

Bloor-Dundas Square has been featured a lot on these hallowed pages. Deservedly so. With each ascending layer, it gets uglier.
St. Clair Place is another ugly festering pile of dog —. Made worse by the garish Dollarama signage.

But man, that thing in Winnipeg. I don't think one could make a house so ugly even on purpose. The devil's hands must be at work here.



Hospimansion? Manschool?

Is it a — clinic? An ER entrance? A Nunavut school? A Mansion? A Montana's Cookhouse?
All of the above?






Time to bring out the John Baird thing.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

This beast from Calgary is nicer on the materials front than the Winnipeg school/ cult compound, but forumers nicknamed it the Mazda dealer house. It has tacky astroturf on the front strip along the street with an illegal No Parking sign. Took down 2 houses and spent years in construction. Lost a nice mature tree for a sterile, lot with not a patch of vegetation on it.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

You are Lio45ing. That can't be a house. It has to be a Mazda dealership.

[niwell]

While not a looker the main ugliness factor in the Crescent Rd example is that it is indeed a SFH. If that concrete yard was actually a patio for a restaurant/bar/cafe or something it would actually be kind of cool - reminds me of some of the newer commercial buildings you'd find along the water in Australia. But a house? Insane.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The interior finishing is also awful. Truly a — ugly house. An architectural monstrosity.

Yeah I noticed the carpenters had to cut the Home Depot trim to fit between the window and quonset-hut-— ceiling. I bet there's a fat — bead of caulk between the mdf and ceiling too

[Wigs]

I've been chatting with niwell recently how Mcmansions have taken on a Mausoleum looking architecture.

so Molson, this is Calgary's Mazoleum

[Pavlov]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

This beast from Calgary is nicer on the materials front than the Winnipeg school/ cult compound, but forumers nicknamed it the Mazda dealer house. It has tacky astroturf on the front strip along the street with an illegal No Parking sign. Took down 2 houses and spent years in construction. Lost a nice mature tree for a sterile, lot with not a patch of vegetation on it.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Sure, its sterile and uninspired... but I'd happily live in it. That view!

[jonny24]

Originally Posted by Pavlov

Sure, its sterile and uninspired... but I'd happily live in it. That view!

Agreed - what a view! I had no idea there were elevation changes like that in Calgary - reminds of the houses on the escarpment in Hamilton.