The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 613

WhipperSnapper · #**12241** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 4:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Unfortunately you couldn't be more ignorant on the subject. The main contributing factor for grizzly bear mortality in this province is habitat fragmentation and increasing contact with people. Logging roads and O&G cutlines are scars that remain all too often indefinitely. I seem to remember the province starting to talk with industry about decommissioning them more and industries sharing access points but am not certain how much progress has been made on this front. As I pointed out earlier it isn't tailings ponds or ski resorts that are killing critically endangered woodland caribou it's cutlines and logging roads. We have to cull wolves to help maintain the meager population that exists.

It's not ignorance. I didn't say there weren't repercussions from our activity and from the time needed for reclamation to take hold. It's just downright laughable to compare to Brazil's rainforest which are permanently being destroyed for population needs. Brazil is adding more people than the city of Calgary every year.

Of course, I wouldn't be surprised to hear Alberta is behind other provinces

MolsonExport · #**12242** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

LOL, it's funny you say that, I came across this article not long ago. Also Bridge point is beautiful compared to most new Healthcare centres.

Employees call Montreal’s new hospital ‘Glentanamo’
http://www.canhealth.com/blog/employees-call-montreals-new-hospital-glentanamo/

Yeah, most Montrealer's are not at all fond of the appearance of that super hospital.

I didn't mean it as a slight to Toronto (heck, I have lived in London, ON, for 13 years now); I sense a bit of wounded pride in your remark.

O-tacular · #**12243** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 5:46 PM**

And the winner for laziest rendering of an ugly development goes to....

The Grid! A controversial condo tower being proposed for an industrial area of Inglewood east of DT Calgary (already mentioned a few pages back).

Besides the MS Paint quality of it and the simply horrid looking townhouses the angle is an especially poor choice. Considering the community association is saying it's too tall for the area you'd think they would show it in context with the DT skyline just behind it. Instead they use the angle to completely blot out the entire skyline behind what appears to be the biggest and tallest building outside the Rocky mountains.

HomeInMyShoes · #**12244** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 5:52 PM**

^I don't know. I think Ken King's original renders of the Calgary Next project were nominated too. I demand a recount!

MolsonExport · #**12245** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 5:55 PM**

what is up with the milkboxes at the base?

O-tacular · #**12246** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

what is up with the milkboxes at the base?

No kidding. They reminded me of monopoly properties but milkboxes is also apt.

O-tacular · #**12247** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 6:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^I don't know. I think Ken King's original renders of the Calgary Next project were nominated too. I demand a recount!

Yes, who can forget Ken King's legendary sales pitch to Calgarians of the greatest building to ever be constructed in our city's history!

O-tacular · #**12248** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 6:23 PM**

Look at that amazeballs architectural detail!

Here's a see-through foot massager thingy:

Here it kinda looks like the sole of an orthotic shoe:

Here's the later twin toilet seat design:

FrankieFlowerpot · #**12249** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 10:16 PM**

Can I put Air Canada's "customer service" in here?

FFX-ME · #**12250** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 11:23 PM**

Just gona drop this here... The new proposed addition to the historic Chateau Laurier

O-tacular · #**12251** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

Just gona drop this here... The new proposed addition to the historic Chateau Laurier

Please tell me that is a joke...

FFX-ME · #**12252** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Please tell me that is a joke...

Nope, this is for real. Here is the link to the application on the Ottawa website:
https://ottawa.ca/en/chateau-laurier-addition

They used the same architectural firm as the first horrible design and they managed to top themselves by proposing to erect a blue wall in front of the national landmark.

O-tacular · #**12253** Posted **Feb 8, 2018, 11:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

Nope, this is for real. Here is the link to the application on the Ottawa website:
https://ottawa.ca/en/chateau-laurier-addition

They used the same architectural firm as the first horrible design and they managed to top themselves by proposing to erect a blue wall in front of the national landmark.

Please tell me the city turns it down. I seem to recall the last proposal wasn’t good but not nearly this bad.

MolsonExport · #**12254** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrankieFlowerpot

Can I put Air Canada's "customer service" in here?

sure. every time I read their damned flight magazine, they crow about being the "Best" airline in North America.

As if that is really saying much. Better than United, or Delta....maybe. That's like saying Doug Ford is better than Rob Ford. When you are at the bottom of the barrel, you really ain't better than anyone.

MolsonExport · #**12255** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

Nope, this is for real. Here is the link to the application on the Ottawa website:
https://ottawa.ca/en/chateau-laurier-addition

They used the same architectural firm as the first horrible design and they managed to top themselves by proposing to erect a blue wall in front of the national landmark.

That's fucking terrible.

HomeInMyShoes · #**12256** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by FFX-ME

Just gona drop this here... The new proposed addition to the historic Chateau Laurier

It's impressive in its lack of context sensitivity. I mean, you'd have to try to make it that terrible. Really try. And then try some more.

Blader · #**12257** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 4:01 PM**

^^^
I think they borrowed Trumps wall, designed to keep Mexicans from visiting Disneyland.

TorontoDrew · #**12258** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 4:59 PM**

If the lady looks pissed in the render.

MolsonExport · #**12259** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 5:04 PM**

Calin Rovinescu (CEO of Hot-Air Canada) 2015 compensation: $7,817,369

How do you earn that salary? By raising corporate profits, naturally, through incredible customer service!!

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Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu Refuses To Talk About Passenger Bumping

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/08/23/...talk-about-passenger-bumping_a_23159056/

O-tacular · #**12260** Posted **Feb 9, 2018, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Blader

^^^
I think they borrowed Trumps wall, designed to keep Mexicans from visiting Disneyland.

Yep. Could they not have made some effort, any effort at all really, to integrate it better with the chateau? This looks like a completely separate building they already designed separately that they lazily decided to plop down next to the existing building. I'm sometimes in favour of new architectural additions that contrast the old like the Reichstag in Germany or the ROM in Toronto but this doesn't achieve that. It's like a boxy, glass office building built on top of a beautifully ornate castle. Just awful.