The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 85

Xelebes · #**1681** Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 4:09 PM**

1985 was a great year.

Rico Rommheim · #**1682** Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 4:54 PM**

Behold Concordia's Fine Arts building. It looks like a 1970's soviet bunker, but its actually a 1920's elevated parkade.

20150409_132607 by rommheim, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**1683** Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 7:38 PM**

shudder. And it about the most windswept place in the city, with the canyon effect of boul Rene-Levesque. Plenty of pigeon poo too.

mcminsen · #**1684** Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 7:47 PM**

I know this thread is mostly about ugly architecture but the ugliest thing in Vancouver right now is the oil spill in English Bay. It's being called a "relatively small oil spill" but it sure doesn't take much to spread over a huge area and mess things up.

The water at Dundarave Beach in West Vancouver…

Photograph by Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver Sun

O-tacular · #**1685** Posted **Apr 10, 2015, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

I know this thread is mostly about ugly architecture but the ugliest thing in Vancouver right now is the oil spill in English Bay. It's being called a "relatively small oil spill" but it sure doesn't take much to spread over a huge area and mess things up.

The water at Dundarave Beach in West Vancouver…

Photograph by Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver Sun

Well the thread is called the Ugly Canada thread and not the Ugly Architecture thread. See previous examples like Nickelback, Chavril, St. Hubert Restaurants, the city of Laval...

O-tacular · #**1686** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 1:08 AM**

More hideous suburbs of Calgary. I'm guessing this is from a newer one in the NW due to the lack of trees and general hillyness. Those rolling hills make for pretty natural vistas but butt ugly suburbs. You see every cookie cutter house for miles and there's no trees or anything to hide them.

Calgaryharold.com

SignalHillHiker · #**1687** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 1:17 AM**

Needs more poles and wires, bro.

Town of Paradise, suburban STJs:

Town and Country by Rabbittownie, on Flickr

MolsonExport · #**1688** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 3:39 AM**

^very similar vantage points, but somehow the newer Calgary shot is worse. Because they know better. Not saying that the St John's photo has grace (it has little of that).

TorontoDrew · #**1689** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 3:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Well the thread is called the Ugly Canada thread and not the Ugly Architecture thread. See previous examples like Nickelback, Chavril, St. Hubert Restaurants, the city of Laval...

And.............

Posted by: http://img.theepochtimes.com/

O-tacular · #**1690** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 3:56 AM**

So much ugly in one shot... Calgary's firehall 1 on 1st DT with a nameless commie block behind it.

calgary.ca

The funny thing is that bunker replaced this, though thankfully it's still standing today albeit as a Budget car rental place.

https://albertashistoricplaces.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/calgary-fire-hall-no-1-2/

Trans Canada · #**1691** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 3:58 AM**

Markham-suburbs_aerial-edit2.jpg by IDuke, on Wikipedia

O-tacular · #**1692** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Markham-suburbs_aerial-edit2.jpg by IDuke, on Wikipedia

Yeah ok that takes the cake.

TorontoDrew · #**1693** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 4:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Markham-suburbs_aerial-edit2.jpg by IDuke, on Wikipedia

Who wants to live in a box in the sky when you can have this lol. The thing about suburbanites that bugs me is they argue they get a backyard where city dwellers in condos don't. I'll take my city park over my cookie cutter slice of grass boxed in surrounded by people I never meet any day.

Also generally when they sell these homes they show them in renders like this.
Posted on: kellerwilliamsrealtygrouplimerick.files.wordpress.com

Suburbanites are living in their own LaLa Land.

Ashok · #**1694** Posted **Apr 11, 2015, 6:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Behold Concordia's Fine Arts building. It looks like a 1970's soviet bunker, but its actually a 1920's elevated parkade.

20150409_132607 by rommheim, on Flickr

Luckily, the fine arts department will all go in the Grey Nun by 2020. So, this bunker can be blown up then.

Harrij · #**1695** Posted **Apr 12, 2015, 7:55 PM**

So the iconic Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton is getting a nice little exterior redevelopment that is trying its hardest to screw itself up.

From Elise Stolte on Twitter https://twitter.com/estolte/status/586276746426712064

O-tacular · #**1696** Posted **Apr 12, 2015, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harrij

So the iconic Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton is getting a nice little exterior redevelopment that is trying its hardest to screw itself up.

From Elise Stolte on Twitter https://twitter.com/estolte/status/586276746426712064

It's undergoing a procedure to become a candy cane.

kwoldtimer · #**1697** Posted **Apr 12, 2015, 8:22 PM**

red-paladin · #**1698** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 12:27 AM**

Too bad they didn't replace all the spandrels with the blue ones.

Blader · #**1699** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 12:53 AM**

I've always liked the Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton and the Chateau Champlain (cheese grater) in Montreal. Awful attempts to modernize continue.

O-tacular · #**1700** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 1:53 AM**

Found a picture of this monster from Ottawa.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=152459

Any Ottawanians been there before?