The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 75

Brizzy82 · #**1481** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 8:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Echoes

I don't see ugly, I see character, history, and potential. It's often the visible social problems and general rundown condition that paint these streets as "ugly" in the eyes of many.

I agree, that's why I said it doesn't really fit the theme of the thread. There's a lot of run down blocks in Winnipeg but this one is just especially bad & "ugly" in its current state.

Would love to see it return to it's former glory.

O-tacular · #**1482** Posted **Mar 27, 2015, 8:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by 11a2b3

Bay Laurier Place, Ottawa. Looks like a vertical prison.

http://www.ottawacondoguide.com/building-details.cfm?id=30

Agreed! Why did they ever feel this was an attractive form of architecture?

MolsonExport · #**1483** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 2:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

The blank wall is money... nothing says urban awesome like a row of highrises smooshed together. This building will set the stage for something like that.

For instance, see below. If all of the buildings were 100 feet apart with windows on all sides, it would mercilessly kill the awesome in this block:

Source: wikipedia

With this sort of arrangement, the buildings become far more than the sum of their parts.

This is actually great. Asian density, even if a little drab. Tokyo goes on and on and fucking on like this. I've walked these streets.

SkahHigh · #**1484** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 2:56 AM**

This thing. It's been disfiguring McGill College Avenue for years. The cladding of the Rogers Building used to be brown-ish and is now white...

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3895/14600395472_842fc587e9_c.jpg

MolsonExport · #**1485** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 3:27 AM**

I hate that building. Always have, always will.

Martin Mtl · #**1486** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 2:46 PM**

Yeah, it's one of the worse because of its location. I don't know how the owners can live with themselves.

Rico Rommheim · #**1487** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 2:50 PM**

I always thought that building would be a prime target for demolition/re-construction. Seems like the perfect spot to build a mixed-use hotel/office tower. Something as tall as the 1501 McGill college across the street.

11a2b3 · #**1488** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 7:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Agreed! Why did they ever feel this was an attractive form of architecture?

Like many other Ottawa buildings, they sadly thought cladding with lots of concrete would look good....

11a2b3 · #**1489** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 7:37 PM**

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/stvan/canadaphotos.html

O-tacular · #**1490** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 7:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by 11a2b3

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/stvan/canadaphotos.html

That's actually nice.

SkahHigh · #**1491** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 7:56 PM**

Sorry O-Tac but I think this is butt-f*ck ugly

O-tacular · #**1492** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:00 PM**

Okay let me qualify that by saying it's not amazing but it isn't ugly either. It kind of looks fortressy but coming from a city with very little in the realm of historical buildings it doesn't bother me so much. Or is this more recently built? Even if it is more recent it's better than 90% of faux historical architecture.

SkahHigh · #**1493** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Okay let me qualify that by saying it's not amazing but it isn't ugly either. It kind of looks fortressy but coming from a city with very little in the realm of historical buildings it doesn't bother me so much. Or is this more recently built? Even if it is more recent it's better than 90% of faux historical architecture.

I belive it's the windows that don't fit at all with the rest of the building.

O-tacular · #**1494** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

I belive it's the windows that don't fit at all with the rest of the building.

I will agree with that. Still it's no Residences Soleil.

O-tacular · #**1495** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:07 PM**

I forget, did anyone ever post Quebec City's unfortunate new tallest on here? If not it definitely needs inclusion in this thread.

O-tacular · #**1496** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:11 PM**

Ahaha! Found another clocktower Residences Soleil in St. Leonard.

http://www.imtl.org/montreal/building/Manoire-Saint-Leonard.php

Do they all have a clocktower of doom to count down the precious few minutes remaining in the lives of their elderly residents? If only they had a long glass corridor connecting them to a neighbouring funeral home like that notorious place I saw in Boucherville years ago. Can't remember where exactly it was but my Grandma always laughed about it. I think it was next to a mall, or a Tim Horton's or something.

O-tacular · #**1497** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:21 PM**

Quebec seems to have a theme of terribly depressing old folks homes with clock towers.

http://www.residences-quebec.ca/geo/personnes-agees-semi-autonomes/victoriaville/

O-tacular · #**1498** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 8:33 PM**

Lol! From the Calgary Construction Thread courtesy of ByeByeBaby.

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Originally Posted by ByeByeBaby

I actually did a little digging around just now, and it turns out that this building is very similar to a proposal for an office building in Europe, the Beta Theta Omega Professional Building. It also took into detailed consideration the historical building next door and paid homage in the design and choice of materials. I think the amount thought that went into complementing the heritage property is obviously evident, and this sort of sensitive treatment is truly remarkable.

This is the actual proposal:

J.OT13 · #**1499** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by 11a2b3

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/stvan/canadaphotos.html

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Okay let me qualify that by saying it's not amazing but it isn't ugly either. It kind of looks fortressy but coming from a city with very little in the realm of historical buildings it doesn't bother me so much. Or is this more recently built? Even if it is more recent it's better than 90% of faux historical architecture.

It was completed in 1996.

11a2b3 · #**1500** Posted **Mar 28, 2015, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

I belive it's the windows that don't fit at all with the rest of the building.

Yep, thats why I'm not a fan of the building, the windows make it look like a jail.