Cathedraltown is such a weird place - it's one of those subdivisions that hits all the proper new urbanist points on a checklist but seems quite sterile. Then you have the massive cathedral looming over it like something out of the Omen.
I suppose you have to give them a little credit for forcing a retail main street, but still: https://goo.gl/maps/ibq6VSAY1ux
Just look at that awesomely creepy thing (it's super cool up close). Before development it looked like some sort of post-apocalyptic dystopia:
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I'm fairly certain looking at that photo that they used that for John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Super creepy film. That mainstreet is nightmare inducing.
Even those townhouses across the street look apocalyptic. What a creepy place. Even the name. It sounds like it belongs in the same sentence as Jones Town
I see this eyesore of a modern office building everytime I pass on the A15 in Laval. Typical of a cheap design wanting to be colorful but ending up sucking my soul:
Which came first..the church or the faux new urbanism? The church driveway looks half finished.
The Cathedral (actually consecrated by the Pope!) was built well before - it started in the mid 80s and closed in 2006. At the time it was basically in the middle of the field. Supposed to be reopening soon though.
Cathedral High Street is on a next level creepy mixed with outstanding blandness.
I mean, does this not look straight out of a movie about a totalitarian society in the future? Or some creepy evil village?
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Looks like a Potemkin Village.
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Positively Lavalesque, but smack dab in Montreal (Anjou).
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
Everything about this story belongs here. From the nimby's to the hideous suburb to the chrome cow on stilts to the bad news cast puns. Fuck the nimbys. Ugly or not the cow only adds interest to their bland suburb.
Yikes. I think the Nimby's will milk it for all that its worth.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
In other news, Hanna (Alberta) is mulling whether to erect a giant statue of Chad Kroeger at the intersection of Fox Lake Trail and Pioneer Trail.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
Murals of home town band Nickleback adorn the curling rink in Hanna, Alta. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)
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Hanna Mayor Chris Warwick says many residents in the town are 100 per cent behind their hometown heroes. (Stephanie Wiebe/CBC)
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I bet that some residents are only 4% behind their hometown zeros.
Watch out Okotoks. There are a number of things to do in Hanna.
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If happen to go to Hannah, here's some sights:
Check out the Nickelback murals throughout Hanna.
Visit the The Hanna Pioneer Village and Museum, which includes a full block of historic buildings filled with antiques and turn-of-the-century artifacts.
The Doll Palace Museum opened in 1993 and has a collection of more than 3,000 dolls in an array of different styles, sizes and shapes.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
The Cathedral (actually consecrated by the Pope!) was built well before - it started in the mid 80s and closed in 2006. At the time it was basically in the middle of the field. Supposed to be reopening soon though.
In other news, Hanna (Alberta) is mulling whether to erect a giant statue of Chad Kroeger at the intersection of Fox Lake Trail and Pioneer Trail.
lifesizestandups
hotelroomsearch.net
Cathedraltown is such a weird place - it's one of those subdivisions that hits all the proper new urbanist points on a checklist but seems quite sterile. Then you have the massive cathedral looming over it like something out of the Omen.
I suppose you have to give them a little credit for forcing a retail main street, but still: https://goo.gl/maps/ibq6VSAY1ux
Just look at that awesomely creepy thing (it's super cool up close). Before development it looked like some sort of post-apocalyptic dystopia:
Toronto Star
It's new urbanism that forgot its new urbanism. The beige colour palette and architectural designs are as banal as any anonymous subdivision from the 1980s and 1990s.
Yikes! I thought the mayor of Hanna was a criminal doing a jailhouse interview. It even looks like he's wearing the orange fatigues.
Not orange fatigues, but orange pajamas.
Pajamas in Hanna.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
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