The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 73

O-tacular · #**1441** Posted **Mar 26, 2015, 10:59 PM**

Saw this repugnant piece of crap earlier today in a new neighbourhood. Yes this building is new. I don't care if it's for storage and built into a hill, there is no excuse for that blank wall!

Photo is mine.

Brizzy82 · #**1442** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 12:35 AM**

I know this isn't technically what the thread is about, but I had to go do some work at the Yale Hotel the other day and let me tell you, that whole strip of Main St is ugly

North Winnipeg Main Steet by JakeBlackner, on Flickr

O-tacular · #**1443** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:11 AM**

Calgary's giant blue outhouse the Park:

[/url]The Park March 26 2015 by LUMIN8, on Flickr

Photo is courtesy of forumer Jimby / Lumin8 on Fickr.

O-tacular · #**1444** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:15 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockyview

Right again - I will make up for it with another update this week. Surprised to hear someone working on this 4th floor suite on a Sunday, and even more surprising to finally see some drywall above the podium.

From the Park construction thread.

Delirium · #**1445** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:41 AM**

no disrespect to Hamilton but this has got to be the ugliest highrise in canada imo. it's so bad!

Hamilton | March 15, 2015 by .JCM., on Flickr

PhilippeMtl · #**1446** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

no disrespect to Hamilton but this has got to be the ugliest highrise in canada imo. it's so bad!

Hamilton | March 15, 2015 by .JCM., on Flickr

I think Le Rigaud beat it.

source: http://www.imtl.org/edifices/Le-Rigaud.php?id=807&im=1

niwell · #**1447** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:55 AM**

They're ugly, but I can appreciate the Hamilton and Montreal examples for what they are, at least a little bit.

The Park. Yeah. That is absolutely hideous. It looks like someone went out their way to make it as ugly as possible in spite of something. What I can't imagine.

Brizzy82 · #**1448** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 2:29 AM**

I also really hate that Hamilton building.

Winnipeg has one that reminds me a little bit of that too.

55 Nassau St N

credit: Wikipedia

Dwils01 · #**1449** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 2:40 AM**

I actually like Landmark Place in Hamilton. I guess seeing it everyday for four years I got used to it.
What I hate is what is beside it on either side. You got a gas station on one side and a strip plaza on the other side of the cities tallest building.

Rico Rommheim · #**1450** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 2:50 AM**

Landmark place is hideous. Hamilton's biggest, tallest nastiest eyesore. The ugliest tallest in any city. The Complex G in Quebec ain't got nothin' on this fool.

Le Rigaud is just weird. But it isn't bland like Landmark. And at least it isn't even close to be our tallest or most prominently placed building.

I say nuke them both from orbit. Only way to be sure.

O-tacular · #**1451** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 3:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by PhilippeMtl

I think Le Rigaud beat it.

source: http://www.imtl.org/edifices/Le-Rigaud.php?id=807&im=1

Yeah but the Rigaud has a sort of cool futuristic Tokyo brutalist vibe to it that I kind of like. That tower from Hamilton is absolute shit though. It should be nuked from orbit.

O-tacular · #**1452** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 3:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

They're ugly, but I can appreciate the Hamilton and Montreal examples for what they are, at least a little bit.

The Park. Yeah. That is absolutely hideous. It looks like someone went out their way to make it as ugly as possible in spite of something. What I can't imagine.

I think it's to spite the city for trying to force them not to use stucco. Well if that's what their goal was they certainly succeeded. I'd take stucco over this ridiculous crap any day. The funny part is the renderings showed the entire tower having clear glass. Not a hint of blue. Definite bait and switch. It takes George Costanza level madness to pull off such a massive prank.

O-tacular · #**1453** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 3:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

I also really hate that Hamilton building.

Winnipeg has one that reminds me a little bit of that too.

55 Nassau St N

credit: Wikipedia

Is that affordable housing? Here's Calgary's worst new affordable housing buildings. The first one looks like it could be in Judge Dredd.

http://www.calgary.ca/CS/OLSH/Pages/Affo...gram/Completed-housing-developments.aspx

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/06/10/lac...dable-housing-tower-in-southwest-calgary

Ramako · #**1454** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 3:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

These extremely fugly beasts hulking over Toronto's waterfront. Who the fuck allowed these things to be built where they were?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.640599,-7...3m4!1e1!3m2!1skbTuAudzAunYA0vplXnGWg!2e0

At the time they were built, the entire central waterfront was rail yards and industrial land. I think the city was glad that anyone would want to live there.

Innsertnamehere · #**1455** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 5:03 AM**

it was built as a part of CNs "Metro centre" plan, that also resulted in the creation of the CN tower and the convention centre.

MolsonExport · #**1456** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 12:40 PM**

Princess Towers (Kingston) beats them all.

diogenesborealis, tearmatt, thegloss.com

MolsonExport · #**1457** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 12:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ramako

At the time they were built, the entire central waterfront was rail yards and industrial land. I think the city was glad that anyone would want to live there.

Montreal has sections of extreme wallmanship.

E.g., https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Rue+She...!1s0x4cc917293f98b20b:0x6612d05706a9d8de

el supremo density (Montreal's answer to the walled city of Kowloon): https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.49453,-73...3m4!1e1!3m2!1skdkHcfOl87s82r48-eboLw!2e0

also this: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Rue+She...!1s0x4cc917293f98b20b:0x6612d05706a9d8de

lio45 · #**1458** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:04 PM**

That Hamilton tower would be a lot nicer aesthetically if the top wasn't larger in both dimensions than the trunk. Currently, the trunk:head proportions kinda mimic a dick's, and in terms of building style, I really dislike that.

esquire · #**1459** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 1:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is that affordable housing? Here's Calgary's worst new affordable housing buildings. The first one looks like it could be in Judge Dredd.

Believe it or not, it's actually a condo tower. It's pretty old... dates back to around 1970 and it hasn't aged particularly well in terms of appearance.

The thing in Hamilton wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have that weird bulge at the top that lio colourfully described.

The_Architect · #**1460** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 2:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ramako

At the time they were built, the entire central waterfront was rail yards and industrial land. I think the city was glad that anyone would want to live there.

I don't even think they're the worst on Queen's Quay...

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