The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 166

O-tacular · #**3301** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 7:22 PM**

Do you think they shipped Les Vieux Pros off to a Residence Soleil and that's why it's boarded up?

SkahHigh · #**3302** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 7:23 PM**

Valois will be demolished in the next weeks though to make place for a possible TOD around Valois station.

O-tacular · #**3303** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 7:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Soleil hands down. The diverse urban fabric with the Regina option (Robin's Donut about 2.5 blocks and the Cornwall Centre Shopping Mall within four blocks) makes the one in Regina way better to live in.

They should re-name it Residence du Nuits Eternelle.

O-tacular · #**3304** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

To add insult to injury they also refused to have a sidewalk in front of it, so you're walking down the street and suddenly the sidewalk is replaced with coarse gravel. (Or at least that's what they had when I visited. It seems so bizarre I hope it was a temporary thing.)

Sounds like some areas of Calgary.

Franco401 · #**3305** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 8:19 PM**

NB is pretty serious about building terrible shopping centres.

Parkway Mall, Saint John

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3108866,-...f6vrRuaFAdWgkqAIfWpPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Brookside Mall, Fredericton

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.9919923,-66.6503433,3a,51.2y,299.87h,89.39t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdqYntLPox4qZ20RxNfqBbg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DdqYntLPox4qZ20RxNfqBbg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D337.7438%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

Moncton Home Decor Centre

https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.1175387,-64.8399007,3a,90y,37.61h,85.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8eBSdQdgzz1Jzlz58gzxtw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Oromocto Mall

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.8513276,-66.4743616,3a,75y,354.74h,90.06t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sR2ZuGDMnJ2Gwl8Ya-SH3Iw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DR2ZuGDMnJ2Gwl8Ya-SH3Iw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D125.11995%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

Kings Place, Fredericton
https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.9614615,-66.642571,3a,90y,210.57h,87.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ss8YLpF_KzHRkZ3y99qMEAA!2e0!5s20130701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

Grand Bay Plaza

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.2984758,-66.1959251,3a,40.7y,311.78h,97.38t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIbzPTkOpBA7cgIQANosRrg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DIbzPTkOpBA7cgIQANosRrg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D125.97034%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

Smythe St Plaza, Fredericton

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.9436928,-...RJWe5Uq9makzGKX4dVIOw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Harrij · #**3306** Posted **Nov 23, 2015, 9:27 PM**

I find it pretty amazing how you can go to the far corners of the country and find shopping centres that look like they could be Anywhere In Canada. That one in London is like a carbon copy of one by my parents house in Edmonton.

vid · #**3307** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 2:21 AM**

When I was in a Shoppers Drug Mart in Surrey a couple years ago, for a moment I felt like I was in Thunder Bay. The layout was literally 100% identical to the one I go to most frequently. (They have 16 or 20 different designs and layouts and only modify them slightly to fit on their properties.) The only difference was some of the local brands and of course, the fact that I was in one of the few cities in the country that is objectively worse than the city I was born in.

O-tacular · #**3308** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 2:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

When I was in a Shoppers Drug Mart in Surrey a couple years ago, for a moment I felt like I was in Thunder Bay. The layout was literally 100% identical to the one I go to most frequently. (They have 16 or 20 different designs and layouts and only modify them slightly to fit on their properties.) The only difference was some of the local brands and of course, the fact that I was in one of the few cities in the country that is objectively worse than the city I was born in.

Is Surrey really worse than Thunder Bay?

Pinion · #**3309** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 2:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is it meant to remind travellers from California of their fake Mediteranean villas?

The fake mediterranean look was really in style in Vancouver from the late 90s/early 2000s until people realized that you had to have roof overhangs or your walls will turn into mush and kill you with mold spores.

vid · #**3310** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 3:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is Surrey really worse than Thunder Bay?

Pretty much, yeah. It's only saving grace is that Vancouver is right there.

Surrey Central Station smells like fish.

ssiguy · #**3311** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 6:00 AM**

I wouldn't say those London buildings are ugly.

Bland, uninspiring, unwelcoming, and the antithesis of great urban planning but ugly?.......no not really.

MolsonExport · #**3312** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 1:20 PM**

Valois Shopping Centre Dominion 1957 (corresponding to wretched strip mall on previous page)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/grocerymaniaagain/9098056537

Wrecking ball coming soon (see video featuring fugly abandoned strip mall): Permit to be issued to demolish Pointe-Claire eyesore

MolsonExport · #**3313** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

I wouldn't say those London buildings are ugly.

Bland, uninspiring, unwelcoming, and the antithesis of great urban planning but ugly?.......no not really.

I actually think bland, uninspiring, unwelcoming, and the antithesis of great urban planning is worse than ugly.

Ugly sometimes can be so bad that it is good. Like a trainwreck.

I prefer the grit and shit to the banality of the Smartcentre landscapes (aka Miltonization of the Universe)

MolsonExport · #**3314** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 1:45 PM**

Ugly? Bland? Both?

Rank on the clocktower scale:
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O-tacular · #**3315** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 1:49 PM**

You actually managed to find a pic with a nice contrast that makes the landscape more appealing in a purely artistic sense.

Otherwise the courthouse ranks a solid 7 on the Clocktower scale. The highest ranking buildings above that usually have more gaudy elements such as clock towers, fake Venetian and or classical architecture and vomit or condiment coloured stucco or vinyl siding.

O-tacular · #**3316** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 6:31 PM**

The miltonization of the universe in Calgary:

MolsonExport · #**3317** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 10:10 PM**

Oh no, Michaels in a power centre. Ahhh, my eyes!!! (and nose: I can smell the pot-pourri and the "depends")

That power centre looks exactly like the one in London. And the one in Milton.

except for the tiny "coop liquor" sign, it could be Milton.

O-tacular · #**3318** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 10:48 PM**

Normally I like water towers, but this one in Airdrie north of Calgary is the same as the town: depressing and ugly.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/96355171

This photo says it all:

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Canada/Prairies/Alberta/Airdrie/photo576657.htm

Airdrie's most interesting sight:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3354300

http://www.doityourselfrv.com/portfolio/most-intimidating-fifth-wheel/

Nouvellecosse · #**3319** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 12:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Oh no, Michaels in a power centre. Ahhh, my eyes!!! (and nose: I can smell the pot-pourri and the "depends")

That power centre looks exactly like the one in London. And the one in Milton.

except for the tiny "coop liquor" sign, it could be Milton.

Most of those could be the Maritimes also. Just switch the order of the stores and would be identical.

O-tacular · #**3320** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 4:22 PM**

I'm amazed no one has posted the Biebs before in this thread. I just saw the trailer for Zoolander 2 and he almost ruined it (until he gets shot).

I'll take Nickelback any day over Bieber.