The Ugly Canada Thread

[O-tacular]

Some uglies posted by Chadillac in the Calgary Infill thread. For every really nice project we get we also suffer 🞵🞵🞵🞵 like this.

Centre Green - 6 storeys


Centre Green by Chadillaccc, on Flickr


Centro - 5 storeys



Centro by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

the original double-double (or dipshit duo): https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5755108,-...kxdNcD1iVLV7s2jxy_zPg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

the original double-double (or dipshit duo): https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5755108,-...kxdNcD1iVLV7s2jxy_zPg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It could be worse. Location is everything:



(It's trying to hide behind the light pole).


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There's also Tim's in the American building style:

[MolsonExport]

the first photo is a 2/10 (ugly original tim's + the Rooms + crappy early-80s brown government building)
the second photo is a 5/10 (much nicer tim's but dystopian/banal suburban moonscape)

[SignalHillHiker]

The second one gets worse. This is across the street:





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[MolsonExport]

^That's horrible! Looks like Irkutsk.

Creepy guy in craptastic part of Montreal: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5915255,-...WBTxI7oB_6jEfKvbJyvEw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^That's horrible! Looks like Irkutsk.

Creepy guy in craptastic part of Montreal: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5915255,-...WBTxI7oB_6jEfKvbJyvEw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Such a poetic street name though!

[kwoldtimer]

There's a not-completely-ugly Timmies in Kitchener in a spot where the Downtown transitions into historic homes:



Unfortunately, it sits across the street from the old Provincial Courthouse (now sitting empty) that is rather a test of one's tolerance for late Brutalist architecture (and public art!):

[WhipperSnapper]

Nice 🞵🞵🞵 but, that thing growing out of it is somewhat of a turnoff.

[SkahHigh]

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.6102424,-...JeKp6-HSEyAbyBKasjjKA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Found a part of Eastern Montreal imitating Detroit. It's got the railroad tracks running right through the neighborhood unprotected.

[Acajack]

This Tim Hortons in Gatineau (historic centre of Aylmer) isn't too bad either:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3954694,-...EyEt89CbY7DQ38A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Not too far from Harls' place I'd say!

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Nice 🞵🞵🞵 but, that thing growing out of it is somewhat of a turnoff.

Indeed. Another growth, err piece, by the same artist, colloquially known as the Great Arctic Tundra Worm, graced the campus of the University of Waterloo many years ago, until it was BLOWN UP! I am not kidding.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.6102424,-...JeKp6-HSEyAbyBKasjjKA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Found a part of Eastern Montreal imitating Detroit. It's got the railroad tracks running right through the neighborhood unprotected.

Not the prettiest area but it doesn't even come close to passing the Detroit test.

If you look around 100% of the buildings appear to be occupied.

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Not the prettiest area but it doesn't even come close to passing the Detroit test.

If you look around 100% of the buildings appear to be occupied.

Maybe Cleveland then?

[SignalHillHiker]

Some of the ugliness that is suburban St. John's. Not our separate, suburban municipalities, but suburban parts of the city proper. In increasing distance from the core:











This whole neighbourhood screams "🞵🞵🞵 are you lookin' at!?" to me, as do the faces of most people living in it.

[O-tacular]

Agreed Whippersnapper. It also bears a striking resemblance to sausage links. As for the building itself it reminds me of industrial grain elevators or the local wonderbread factory I've seen in Calgary's SE industrial parks. In short it bears no resemblance whatsoever to a house of justice. Depressing and awful.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It could be worse. Location is everything:



(It's trying to hide behind the light pole).


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From this angle the Rooms almost gives the Residences Soleil Laval a run for its' money in the creepily lurking in the background category. That side window is its' eye of Sauron so to speak. Used to subjugate all who live in its' shadow.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

From this angle the Rooms almost gives the Residences Soleil Laval a run for its' money in the creepily lurking in the background category. That side window is its' eye of Sauron so to speak. Used to subjugate all who live in its' shadow.

It has an eye for every angle...









You can, however, still safely live your life behind it...

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Unfortunately, it sits across the street from the old Provincial Courthouse (now sitting empty) that is rather a test of one's tolerance for late Brutalist architecture (and public art!):

looks like a coiled piece of dogshit.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Agreed Whippersnapper. It also bears a striking resemblance to sausage links. As for the building itself it reminds me of industrial grain elevators or the local wonderbread factory I've seen in Calgary's SE industrial parks. In short it bears no resemblance whatsoever to a house of justice. Depressing and awful.

If it looked more like sausage links, it would probably be an improvement (and locally relevant!).

It will be interesting to see if they will ever come up with a suitable use for the old courthouse, or if it will be demolished. It occupies a corner of the Civic District, which means a pretty good location that calls for some kind of public building, imo, or perhaps a conversion of the upper floors to government offices with the main floor adapted for public uses of some sort.