The Ugly Canada Thread

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Did not expect to hear that voice coming from that kid!

He's from Maniwaki BTW.

I find it cute how the girl says "anudder" instead of "another".

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Love that when you make something completely alone in Quebec it doesn't look like it was made in someone's basement. We haven't mastered that yet lol

Some years ago, one of my wife's best friends had a short fling with a guy from Ottawa who has since gone on to become an executive in a large Canadian communications company than not many people like.

Anyway, the guy was a graduate of Algonquin College's broadcasting program in Ottawa. At the time, Algonquin was a bilingual college. So there was an English program and a French program.

We were discussing this and that over dinner one night and the guy (who was in the English program) mentioned that the students in the French program went in his words "all out" in their end-of-program production. They tried to make it looks as slick as possible. He was probably exaggerating a bit but he said the kids in the English program just went through the motions for theirs, because in any event it could never be as good as anything made by Hollywood. This is a bit of a simplification, but I think it does illustrate a difference in mindset.

Another anecdote from the world of theatre I got from someone close to the National Theatre School of Canada, which also has French and English streams. Almost like clockwork, apparently the graduating classes there for their final, grand productions will almost always choose, for the anglophones, to put on a classic play by an established author, whereas the francophones invariably write their own play and then mount the production themselves from A to Z.

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by niwell

Funnily enough rural southern Ontario is probably more stereotypically redneck/country or whatever you want to call it than the North. I've had to travel around the province a decent amount and I feel more at home in Sudbury or Thunder Bay than I do in the rural south.

Yes, rural Southern Ontario is definitely much more redneck than Northern Ontario.

Most of Northern Ontario is pretty left-wing and welcoming to all sorts of people. And much of the rural areas are actually more to the left than the cities.

[Xelebes]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Did not expect to hear that voice coming from that kid!

Articulation is pretty muted due to him stretching for that baritone register. It sounds a bit forced. Mind you, I have met quite a few teenage baritones and basses back in my time with the Edmonton honour choir so it doesn't surprise me that a teenager can sing as deep as he.

[O-tacular]

Apparently even Manhattan occasionally births something so terrible it could hold its own in a battle against Clockzilla. Behold this POS complete with a blank concrete back wall with painted trompe d'oeil cross bracing. It is crowned by two useless metal pyramids that could almost give Toronto's Dolly Parton building a run for its' money.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=207575&page=10

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Apparently even Manhattan occasionally births something so terrible it could hold its own in a battle against Clockzilla. Behold this POS complete with a blank concrete back wall with painted trompe d'oeil cross bracing. It is crowned by two useless metal pyramids that could almost give Toronto's Dolly Parton building a run for its' money.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=207575&page=10

The new global HQ for the bad guys of SPECTRE?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Wow. That is atrocious.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Apparently even Manhattan occasionally births something so terrible it could hold its own in a battle against Clockzilla. Behold this POS complete with a blank concrete back wall with painted trompe d'oeil cross bracing. It is crowned by two useless metal pyramids that could almost give Toronto's Dolly Parton building a run for its' money.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=207575&page=10

Hmm. This is pretty benign to the absolute garage Manhattan puts up regularly. I was expecting much worse. Dolly Parton building in Toronto?

[Acajack]

Kitchener I think.

[WhipperSnapper]

that's gotta be it

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

that's gotta be it

Always charming.

[O-tacular]

Yep. That's the one.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Hmm. This is pretty benign to the absolute garage Manhattan puts up regularly. I was expecting much worse. Dolly Parton building in Toronto?

I haven't seen anything on SSP or when I was there in person last year that was so outstandingly ugly as that.

[WhipperSnapper]

This building is like a time wrap to the 1990s when Graves inspired buildings like this. It's bad which is why it is so out of style now but, there is much much worst in Manhattan than a decent glass facade with some really goofy design elements. See any chain hotel built in the last ten years there. Heck, I'd trade this with the the pink stucco/precast whatever rental tower with brown spandrel overlooking Dundas Square. I've also seen worst done to walls built on property lines in both Manhattan and Toronto.

[advance62]

I really don't think the TD centre belongs here, it even says Igloo now which makes the domes make more sense

Postmodern by Matt, on Flickr

TD Centre by Matt, on Flickr

[Black Star]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Kitchener I think.

Wholly shite this is ugly.

[WhipperSnapper]

Nipples tend to perk up when cold?

[Black Star]

Lol I was thinking it.

[SignalHillHiker]

The square panels on this little box store strip connected to the Pipers (like Great Canadian Superstore) just make the whole thing even worse.

[WhipperSnapper]

I was thinking about PoMo in Toronto like fan favourite Mississauga Civic Centre and the North York Centre complex popped into my head.

Great candidate here

it's bright pink