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
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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.