The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 427

Driver8 · #**8521** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 2:11 AM**

Hope you guys don't mind me posting this non-Canada building (in Atlanta - the Georgia Archives Building). I thought you might appreciate the hideousness. It will go "boom" this weekend & no longer be an eyesore.

Franco401 · #**8522** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 3:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

It's not just you. It's every city in Canada that has these blemishes. In many cases it's far worse. Like the brutal modern courthouse in Old Montreal almost kitty corner from Place Jacques-Cartier. Or the brutalist bunker that houses the Quebec Premier's office, right on Grande-Allée and just before the gates.

sigh.

I really thought this thread had moved on from this "All Brutalism and Modernism is bad" crap.

That courthouse is a masterpiece, even if it's in an inopportune location. It's certainly not Brutalist either, as it incorporates zero features of that subset of Modernism.

You want to see ugly? Try across the street, where we see the worst imaginable way to renovate a heritage building to hold a McDonald's.

I'm not sure what one you're referring to on Grande-Allée. Can you give me a link?

vid · #**8523** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 3:34 AM**

I like that courthouse in Montreal. It's one of my favourite courthouses in the country in terms of architecture.

http://www.bilan.usherb.ca/bilan/pages/photos/4014.html

Loco101 · #**8524** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 4:47 AM**

I will give my verdict about the ugliest Tim Hortons that was posted on here. Just let me finish my last Molson Export before I do so....

Rico Rommheim · #**8525** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 5:26 AM**

The Palais de justice is an objectively nice building. A good mix of sober materials, a nice setback from the street. Of course, it is considered ugly due to its location on Notre-Dame street in Old Montreal. I think it would have belonged on Rene-Levesque. But oh well.

niwell · #**8526** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 7:12 AM**

The courthouse is gorgeous. As said above it is an objectively nice building. It would be suited better to another location...

SignalHillHiker · #**8527** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 11:39 AM**

Our City Hall is a good example of hideous brutalism. Replaced one of the nicer parts of the Central Slum.

MUN Archives

One of the webcams happens to be pointing right at it at the minute:

Franco401 · #**8528** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 3:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Our City Hall is a good example of hideous brutalism. Replaced one of the nicer parts of the Central Slum.

MUN Archives

One of the webcams happens to be pointing right at it at the minute:

tbh that looks to me like a great building ruined by poor maintenance and a shitty obtrusive pedway. I guarantee it would look 100x better given a thorough cleaning of the exterior.

When I think "ugly" I think more along the lines of these shitty townhouses next door to that City Hall.

SignalHillHiker · #**8529** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 3:51 PM**

Sebastian Court. I actually like those.

I don't think they're pretty, but I like the atmosphere they give. There's a public trail that goes right through the central "courtyard" (it's all concrete).

WhipperSnapper · #**8530** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Driver8

Hope you guys don't mind me posting this non-Canada building (in Atlanta - the Georgia Archives Building). I thought you might appreciate the hideousness. It will go "boom" this weekend & no longer be an eyesore.

I don't find this hideous or an eyesore.

WhipperSnapper · #**8531** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Franco401

tbh that looks to me like a great building ruined by poor maintenance and a shitty obtrusive pedway. I guarantee it would look 100x better given a thorough cleaning of the exterior.

When I think "ugly" I think more along the lines of these shitty townhouses next door to that City Hall.

Yeah, those are awful.

O-tacular · #**8532** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Franco401

sigh.

I really thought this thread had moved on from this "All Brutalism and Modernism is bad" crap.

That courthouse is a masterpiece, even if it's in an inopportune location. It's certainly not Brutalist either, as it incorporates zero features of that subset of Modernism.

You want to see ugly? Try across the street, where we see the worst imaginable way to renovate a heritage building to hold a McDonald's.

I'm not sure what one you're referring to on Grande-Allée. Can you give me a link?

Okay that MacDo Reno actually made me laugh out loud!!!

O-tacular · #**8533** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

I like that courthouse in Montreal. It's one of my favourite courthouses in the country in terms of architecture.

http://www.bilan.usherb.ca/bilan/pages/photos/4014.html

The context is what makes it truly hideous.

O-tacular · #**8534** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Loco101

I will give my verdict about the ugliest Tim Hortons that was posted on here. Just let me finish my last Molson Export before I do so....

Hey now!

O-tacular · #**8535** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 6:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Driver8

Hope you guys don't mind me posting this non-Canada building (in Atlanta - the Georgia Archives Building). I thought you might appreciate the hideousness. It will go "boom" this weekend & no longer be an eyesore.

We have an American audience?

Driver8 · #**8536** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

We have an American audience?

Oh yes, this is my favorite thread in this forum.

That building I posted is located (or will be for one more day before it's demolished) on the same road that people used to walk along to get to the Atlanta Braves stadium (which also is no longer the Braves' stadium; the team will be moving into new digs 10 miles away this spring). People always seemed to comment on it - not in a good way. It's definitely stark. Maybe not ugly so much as supremely minimalist. One of its nicknames is the Ice Cube.

By the way, O-tac - I enjoy your posts!

WhipperSnapper · #**8537** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 8:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

The context is what makes it truly hideous.

C'mon. It's not that bad. The architecture deserves some leeway. It's also a courthouse. CRUs along the street doesn't much sense.

WhipperSnapper · #**8538** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 9:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Driver8

Oh yes, this is my favorite thread in this forum.

That building I posted is located (or will be for one more day before it's demolished) on the same road that people used to walk along to get to the Atlanta Braves stadium (which also is no longer the Braves' stadium; the team will be moving into new digs 10 miles away this spring). People always seemed to comment on it - not in a good way. It's definitely stark. Maybe not ugly so much as supremely minimalist. One of its nicknames is the Ice Cube.

By the way, O-tac - I enjoy your posts!

It's definitely stark for Atlanta. It also had a troubled history. It's not bad (ugly) for a windowless box over a podium.

Driver8 · #**8539** Posted **Mar 4, 2017, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

It's definitely stark for Atlanta. It also had a troubled history. It's not bad (ugly) for a windowless box over a podium.

Good point. The building served its purpose as an archives facility too.

OK, peeps, I'll stop with the U.S. content, but I will be lurking.

Acajack · #**8540** Posted **Mar 5, 2017, 2:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Franco401

I'm not sure what one you're referring to on Grande-Allée. Can you give me a link?

Here is Le Bunker:

https://www.google.ca/maps/search/assemb...Las9i1rRyPjXvWJzl8DZA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

It's not a bad brutalist building either, but the location for it sucks.