What is the weirdest building in your City ? - Page 6

O-tacular · #**101** Posted **Jun 7, 2013, 6:40 PM**

Yeah a bunch of us Calgary forumers are miffed about the CBE building. No permit to take it down yet but a developer has since bought the parcel and there are rumours of a 2 tower project potentially taller than the Bow (though apparently with a spire). I couldn't find a pic of the other side (main entrance) to use which is a shame because that is by far the coolest angle. If any of you are curious just google Calgary Board of Education building. It's like a brutalist alien space craft or something.

Ramako · #**102** Posted **Jun 7, 2013, 6:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by shreddog

Nope, since the building was purposely designed and built to represent a Canada Goose!

Where did you hear that?

niwell · #**103** Posted **Jun 7, 2013, 6:57 PM**

I'd always heard that Robarts was supposed to be a peacock.

whatnext · #**104** Posted **Jun 8, 2013, 3:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by digitboy

I'm sad to learn that Colossus is not only a "Laval" thing.

I like the Colossii, at least some effort went into them. Their competitor's Silvercitys that litter the landscape don't even bother to hide the fact they are just prefab big box stores with theatres inside them.

TMA-1 · #**105** Posted **Sep 14, 2013, 7:45 PM**

Easy enough to check but I never did. I see this thing all the time, always think bowling alley.

CWC5224 by southfacing, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by harls

In Gatineau there's a Jehovah's witness building that looks like a bunch of canoes.

Google has failed me, can't find a pic.

edit - guess google maps will do

http://goo.gl/maps/yX5zl

TMA-1 · #**106** Posted **Sep 14, 2013, 7:55 PM**

Slide scan from 1996, Roland Mitchener Public School in Ottawa's 'burb Kanata.

ottawa fun building now unflipped by southfacing, on Flickr

Chadillaccc · #**107** Posted **Sep 14, 2013, 8:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yeah a bunch of us Calgary forumers are miffed about the CBE building. No permit to take it down yet but a developer has since bought the parcel and there are rumours of a 2 tower project potentially taller than the Bow (though apparently with a spire). I couldn't find a pic of the other side (main entrance) to use which is a shame because that is by far the coolest angle. If any of you are curious just google Calgary Board of Education building. It's like a brutalist alien space craft or something.

Cool, where'd you hear that?

J.OT13 · #**108** Posted **Sep 15, 2013, 10:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by TMA-1

Easy enough to check but I never did. I see this thing all the time, always think bowling alley.

CWC5224 by southfacing, on Flickr

Drove past it a few times but only noticed it the other day. It is the Jehovah's Wittiness's "Kingdom Hall Complex" (or whatever). For those who don't know, it is in Aylmer, Québec (now part of Gatineau, Québec) near the western most bridge to Ottawa.

Acajack · #**109** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 1:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

There's at two milk cartons in Winnipeg and one in Regina on Winnipeg street.

If memory serves me right, there's a 4th in Calgary.

I know the architect who built this thing..

There is one in downtown Ottawa like this too... but it's pregnant. I will try to find a picture of it.

Acajack · #**110** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 1:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

There is one in downtown Ottawa like this too... but it's pregnant. I will try to find a picture of it.

OK, not exactly the same, but still pregnant after all these years:

http://goo.gl/maps/TvuFQ

Her next-door neighbour just to the west is pregnant too!

SignalHillHiker · #**111** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 1:26 PM**

That's a terrifying street-level streetscape.

The_Architect · #**112** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

That's a terrifying street-level streetscape.

That's essentially in downtown too..

kwoldtimer · #**113** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 2:40 PM**

That's Centretown - the reality of urban Ottawa. The funny thing about the Queen Elizabeth towers is that some of the apartments inside are beautiful - huge by today's standards. Sure wouldn't want to live in one, however.