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

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by niwell

Not nearly as large but I saw a couple weird dome houses in extremely rural unincorporated parts of Northern Ontario while we were up there for work. Locals we talked to usually had a comment along the lines of "some crazy guy we never see lives there and built it himself".

Oh we definitely are some strange places in rural areas where I live. Some are even located within Timmins city limits. Here's one I've always found creepy on Hwy 655. It's a round or hexagonal house located between a Miller Paving asphalt facility and properties that have garages and shacks with core samples for mining and across from a concrete business and gravel pits. I don't think it has any windows and it has a chimney in the centre of the roof. I've always thought it would be a perfect place for some type of cult

https://maps.app.goo.gl/sHRcsPcYQK1rbSXG6

[MolsonExport]

I thought about the Wickerman while looking at those "castle" shots. Probably because of the standing stones.



On every May Day, in the backyard of this "castle":

[McKellarDweller]

Oh man, there is some quality content in this thread lately. Thank you all for the break I needed today.
I’m just logging on to be petty and dump on a local McMansion fake castle I go by frequently in Calgary. One would be hard-pressed to find a more delusional asking price in urban Calgary.
Great neighbourhood – Hounsfield Heights, but this one sides on the artery street at the edge of the neighbourhood, and is generally surrounded by 1950s 1,000 SF bungalows on a busy street in the $700k range. Asking $2,895,000, and been on and off the market for a long time. The interior design is reminiscent of a "luxury" 1990s funeral home, favoured in recent decades by that pre-boomer era snowbird generation born in the 1920s-1940s. The problem is that they’ve aged out of this place.
Several homes with significantly superior quality, on way better lots nearby have been listed and sold smoothly for lower prices in the last few years than this one.
Who will be the buyer? I would expect a 1st or 2nd generation Canadian who has McMansion dreams and a large extended family. Do they have the $1.8M this place is probably actually worth to the free market? What’s the ratio of actual market value to current replacement cost on this one? How painful is this reality check listing process for the owner?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/msQG4aCiduTjS8md7

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/28462120/1911-13-avenue-nw-calgary-hounsfield-heightsbriar-hill

(sorry)

[Wigs]

Re: Calgary castle
"Limestone fireplace imported from Turkey" with the most generic looking natural gas insert ever
I dunno man, it should be a gigantic wood burning hearth to go along with a castle theme, not Home Depot grade NG insert.

[biguc]

Looks like it's in a pissing match with the affront to the Lord across the street.

[O-tacular]

[kwoldtimer]

This thread has got weird, again.

[O-tacular]

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

This thread has got weird, again.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

I can see it now. Eddy Savoie as Lord Summerisle, with Nicolas Cage ("not the bees!!") in "The Wickerman Part Deux"

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Re: Calgary castle
"Limestone fireplace imported from Turkey" with the most generic looking natural gas insert ever
I dunno man, it should be a gigantic wood burning hearth to go along with a castle theme, not Home Depot grade NG insert.

Better than a lightbulb and tinfoil.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by McKellarDweller

Oh man, there is some quality content in this thread lately. Thank you all for the break I needed today.
I’m just logging on to be petty and dump on a local McMansion fake castle I go by frequently in Calgary. One would be hard-pressed to find a more delusional asking price in urban Calgary.
Great neighbourhood – Hounsfield Heights, but this one sides on the artery street at the edge of the neighbourhood, and is generally surrounded by 1950s 1,000 SF bungalows on a busy street in the $700k range. Asking $2,895,000, and been on and off the market for a long time. The interior design is reminiscent of a "luxury" 1990s funeral home, favoured in recent decades by that pre-boomer era snowbird generation born in the 1920s-1940s. The problem is that they’ve aged out of this place.
Several homes with significantly superior quality, on way better lots nearby have been listed and sold smoothly for lower prices in the last few years than this one.
Who will be the buyer? I would expect a 1st or 2nd generation Canadian who has McMansion dreams and a large extended family. Do they have the $1.8M this place is probably actually worth to the free market? What’s the ratio of actual market value to current replacement cost on this one? How painful is this reality check listing process for the owner?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/msQG4aCiduTjS8md7

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/28462120/1911-13-avenue-nw-calgary-hounsfield-heightsbriar-hill

(sorry)

Wow! Funeral home indeed. The interior looks like what I imagine parts of Les Residences Soleil are like inside.

First there is this jail bathroom with impenetrable static walls of pure dark energy. Not even a fucking mirror!



A suitably dour reception area for a wake:



Sacrificial altar:



Basin to dissolve bodies:



The old lady from room 237 is behind that curtain. There is no convincing me otherwise.

[O-tacular]

Damn that head is ugly!

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I can see it now. Eddy Savoie as Lord Summerisle, with Nicolas Cage ("not the bees!!") in "The Wickerman Part Deux"

It looks like the perfect mausoleum for Carbonite Eddy Savoie to be stashed away. But as we know, his malevolence cannot be contained.

When Clockzilla is full, dead Eddy will roam the earth.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Wow! Funeral home indeed. The interior looks like what I imagine parts of Les Residences Soleil are like inside.

First there is this jail bathroom with impenetrable static walls of pure dark energy. Not even a fucking mirror!



A suitably dour reception area for a wake:



Sacrificial altar:



Basin to dissolve bodies:



The old lady from room 237 is behind that curtain. There is no convincing me otherwise.

Needs gold fixtures.

[McKellarDweller]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

This thread has got weird, again.

O-Tacular - it’s 3:45 PM and you just made me laugh for the first time today. Thank you.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by McKellarDweller

O-Tacular - it’s 3:45 PM and you just made me laugh for the first time today. Thank you.

Happy to hear that. With all of the bullshit going on in the world right now we all could use a laugh.

Thanks for sharing that luxury funeral home.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

Needs gold fixtures.

Kubrick’s decor was decidedly funkier and more colourful.

[O-tacular]

Came across this strange building reno over the weekend. It looks untouched since the 2024 streetview including scaffolding. What a desecration of a historic home.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Looks like the renovation began a decade ago in 2016. World's longest reno.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

The original wasn't fantastic, but I'm sure it could be restored to its former glory before the drab blue siding.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calgar..._ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[TorontoDrew]

Never been, but each year to mark the end of summer and the start of the fall harvest, they hold Harvest Fest for a 4 day weekend (since 1998). The owner has erected semi-permanent structures around his property for DJ's to use for their sets. This is the Screaming Head House.

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Tickets for this September start at $335+fees.
https://harvestfestival.org/tix/