The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 163

O-tacular · #**3241** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 3:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Woot Woot, I can see all the excitement about Red Deer. Looks very Brantfordian.

What was lost:

nationalpost

That's horribly depressing. What is slated to replace it? A big Box power centre? Why else would they need to level an entire city block's worth of buildings?

O-tacular · #**3242** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

From Winnipeg:

Found in this old chestnut of a thread:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=188133
[Commie-block (Slabsville) Capital of Canada]

The bridge way at the top is a little odd and arbitrary. Is it there so the resident criminals can traverse from building to building when Judge Dredd comes to purge the place?

esquire · #**3243** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 4:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

The bridge way at the top is a little odd and arbitrary. Is it there so the resident criminals can traverse from building to building when Judge Dredd comes to purge the place?

It's Winnipeg's version of the PETRONAS Towers, of course there should be a bridge there.

#**3244** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 4:24 PM**

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TorontoDrew · #**3245** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 4:41 PM**

WTF! The city council that approved that should be ashamed of themselves.

O-tacular · #**3246** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 5:29 PM**

esquire · #**3247** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 5:30 PM**

^ That image might be enough to drive some people for whom retirement is looming to suicide.

O-tacular · #**3248** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

WTF! The city council that approved that should be ashamed of themselves.

That is absolutely shameful. To raze an entire block with such historic significance is beyond appalling. Future generations will look at this the same way they do the Radio Canada complex in Montreal. From urban main street to wind swept desolation. What a horrid waste.

O-tacular · #**3249** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ That image might be enough to drive some people for whom retirement is looming to suicide.

Well they can always jump off the top of the clocktower. Afterwards they can donate their bodies to Scores chicken.

Harrij · #**3250** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 5:38 PM**

^ A smitty's at the base of the Tower would be the perfect location for a Smitty's. The only time you could say that about a Smitty's.

MolsonExport · #**3251** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 6:11 PM**

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Harrij · #**3252** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 6:14 PM**

This was just unleashed by the City of Edmonton on twitter. I don't really know what the tower portion is trying to be.

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Originally Posted by oiler-dude

Not sure if this had been posted, but rendering of the artists tower at 96 St & 102A Ave.

From: https://twitter.com/CityofEdmonton/status/667035852946690048

At least it's "subject to change".

MolsonExport · #**3253** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 6:18 PM**

those intermittent micro balconies are particularly offensive to my eyes. Along with the eighties-metallic tower rising from what looks to be a preserved façade of a much earlier building.

O-tacular · #**3254** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

If you look closely you'll even see Gilles Duceppe's girlfriend picking up a pair of depends.

O-tacular · #**3255** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harrij

This was just unleashed by the City of Edmonton on twitter. I don't really know what the tower portion is trying to be.

At least it's "subject to change".

A futuristic prison? Those windows are tiny. Can you imagine being one of the units with only one window?

O-tacular · #**3256** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 9:25 PM**

My all time favourite!

HomeInMyShoes · #**3257** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 9:28 PM**

^Actually that looks delicious. Ice cream, chocolate 'ice' wafers, marshmallows and caramel sauce.

O-tacular · #**3258** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 9:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^Actually that looks delicious. Ice cream, chocolate 'ice' wafers, marshmallows and caramel sauce.

Are you sure it isn't poutine flavoured though?

HomeInMyShoes · #**3259** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 9:54 PM**

As much as the whole sweet-salty thing is sometimes good, that would probably be horribly wrong.

Acajack · #**3260** Posted **Nov 18, 2015, 9:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Are you sure it isn't poutine flavoured though?

Non non non