The Ugly Canada Thread

[MolsonExport]

That is the sterile neighborhood, immediately to the east of Downtown London. Windswept podiums, fugly utilitarian buildings, uninspiring ground-level retailing/services. A place to push on the accelerator a bit more, and avoid the smokers on bikes (the stanker/scuzzy crowd of Dundas Street East)

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by advance62

What happened to the window budget on these two in London?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.9845629,-...nSR4He8f2JjR0mA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Or this one across the street:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.9841222,-...MLPjuYGdk1Ncb2Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

It appears the only light you'd get is from the balcony. What a depressing bunker. The windows on the corners are minuscule. What I want to know is whether each floor only has 6 units or if there are in fact apartments that only have that tiny corner window and nothing else.

[MolsonExport]

The buildings are grimmer than you think. The balcony killer once scaled one of those buildings and murdered a woman on the 13th floor. no doubt due to lack of sunshine.

http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/johnson-russell.htm

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[WhipperSnapper]

wow. I guess the second bedroom's window looks onto the balcony.

http://www.myvisuallistings.com/pfs/141109

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

wow. I guess the second bedroom's window looks onto the balcony.

http://www.myvisuallistings.com/pfs/141109

Based on the size I'm guessing that each floor only does have 6 units. Despite the ugly furniture and finishes that actually looks pretty good inside. You'd never see a condo with units that size today.

[O-tacular]

Question: Is London the Laval of Ontario? Or would that be Kitchener / Waterloo?

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Our tackiest apartment building - not especially ugly, but very out-of-place here.

It's one of those weird holdovers from when urban development was conducted here by a Crown corporation (they also built Churchill Park just before Confederation).

That might explain why the exterior looks straight out of Southern Ontario suburbia. That almost makes me homesick for the banal modernist landscapes of suburban Toronto and Ottawa (I'm kinda serious; they're ugly, but...familiar).

But the interior is just, wow.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Based on the size I'm guessing that each floor only does have 6 units. Despite the ugly furniture and finishes that actually looks pretty good inside. You'd never see a condo with units that size today.

Yep although I never liked the look of the bedrooms and the living room is growing less and less on me.

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https://m.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/3jdgj8/oh_were_collecting_ugly_flags_presenting_laval/

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Question: Is London the Laval of Ontario? Or would that be Kitchener / Waterloo?

Wouldn't it be a place like Brampton or Vaughn or some such?

[WhipperSnapper]

London for sure

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Wouldn't it be a place like Brampton or Vaughn or some such?

I confess I don't know enough about either of them to say. It seems to me though that based on what I've seen here those 3 (KW and London) have the most Lavalian architecture. Haven't seen any monsters from Vaughn except the stupid Mills brand of malls we also got in Ballsack and the Fords. Brampton I have no idea.

[WhipperSnapper]

towers in a park

here

here

[O-tacular]

Just because of everyone's love of the name Okotoks I'd have to nominate it for Alberta. In reality it's actually the nicest bedroom community in greater Calgary (the only one I could stomach living in anyway). In spite of the sheer fugliness of Cochrane, Strathmore, Langdon and Airdrie none of our satellite communities have the critical mass yet to build substantial enough buildings to register on the Clocktower scale.

Maybe I'd nominate Edmonton instead JJ. Nah, it would be Dead Deer.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

towers in a park

here

here

Capulet Lane! How charming! Is there a Montague Gate nearby? And a Romeo Drive and a Juliet Walk?

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

towers in a park

here

here

Fuck that's depressing! Where are those? The first one manages to have the same feeling as one of my monster battle photoshops without adding the kaiju limbs. The second one looks like high density living in Irkutsk.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Capulet Lane! How charming! Is there a Montague Gate nearby? And a Romeo Drive and a Juliet Walk?

In this version Juliet throws herself off the balcony out of depression.

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[WhipperSnapper]

Brampton builds very few towers

Vaughan does come close with their previous two high rise masterplans (here and here ) and newer developments ( here ) that continue with twins, triplets, quads and quints. I think Capulet is a less depressing area than this newer one.