Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 243

Echoes · #**4841** Posted **Mar 16, 2018, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

My vote for the ugliest tower in Downtown Calgary https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0445654,-...Pt23SM3wWBRYk3w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

That one is hard on the eyes.

Boris2k7 · #**4842** Posted **Mar 16, 2018, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Sun Life isn't even that bad, it's not a nice looking development, but I don't think it's any worse than any other smaller 70' - 80's complex in Calgary. At worst, Sun Life is like the Telus tower beside it, just boring and not really worth noting. Calgary (and every other city) has far uglier towers than these.

My vote for the ugliest tower in Downtown Calgary https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0445654,-...Pt23SM3wWBRYk3w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I don't mind One Palliser that much. At the very least, it has symmetry and the windows are pretty much continuous.

There's much more heinous shit in DT Calgary, and even worse stuff outside the core.

Pavlov · #**4843** Posted **Mar 16, 2018, 5:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

I actually like those buildigns / styles... They're clean and very representative of an area - the only problem is that they often end up poorly maintained as the office space becomes less desirable.

In the streetview above I think the sandcrawler looking building is the ugliest, although I'm not sure what's up with the green accents on the older tower.

Yeah, I think the sandcrawler is probably the ugliest building in the Calgary CBD. Just terrible on every single level.

Calgarian · #**4844** Posted **Mar 16, 2018, 5:49 PM**

One Palliser is just cold and dark, especially in inclement weather. Pretty much anything in raw concrete like your examples is quite ugly.

WhipperSnapper · #**4845** Posted **Mar 16, 2018, 10:33 PM**

this one is an ugly complex from the cheap design elements to the tower placements.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.051497,-1...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

This is how you do accent mullion caps

https://www.google.ca/maps/@41.8884889,-...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

GeneralLea · #**4846** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 4:22 AM**

1. The One (Toronto): 306.3m / 1005ft
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3. CIBC Square I (Toronto): 238.5m / 783ft
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7. Massey Tower (Toronto): 208.3m / 683ft
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10. YC Condos (Toronto): 198m / 650ft
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craner · #**4847** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 6:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

I actually like those buildigns / styles... They're clean and very representative of an area - the only problem is that they often end up poorly maintained as the office space becomes less desirable.

In the streetview above I think the sandcrawler looking building is the ugliest, although I'm not sure what's up with the green accents on the older tower.

Those "green accents" are some kind of fabric membrane installed because the cladding was falling off. The Owner has had a plan to reclad this tower to be more similar to the sandcrawler but it's been at least 5 years and nothing has happened. I'd be a little sad if they re-clad it to become just another anonymous glass tower.

O-tacular · #**4848** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 5:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Reesonov

Yeah, I think the sandcrawler is probably the ugliest building in the Calgary CBD. Just terrible on every single level.

I find it interesting. I can’t think of anything like it anywhere else. It’s like an adjunct office tower built into a parkade. It reminds me of a tetris piece. The thing they cheaped out on that hurt it most was the metal facade they put over the parking. I can’t recall how it was originally supposed to look (white I think) but the renderings looked better. When you’re on 10th it definitely catches your attention. Most of that stretch of 10th has some ugly 🞵🞵🞵🞵 though. Bromley Square, the Mustard Seed tower, the other brutalist parkades.

Edit: Here’s how it was supposed to have looked:

VS what was built:

You can also see they didn’t end up going with the two toned glass.

O-tacular · #**4849** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

this one is an ugly complex from the cheap design elements to the tower placements.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.051497,-1...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

This is how you do accent mullion caps

https://www.google.ca/maps/@41.8884889,-...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Give me a break. You still can’t get over the mullions for EAP. That’s one of our nicest buildings.

O-tacular · #**4850** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 5:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Boris2k7

I don't mind One Palliser that much. At the very least, it has symmetry and the windows are pretty much continuous.

There's much more heinous shit in DT Calgary, and even worse stuff outside the core.

Those are heinous. I like how this thread has become an offshoot of the Ugly Canada thread.

caltrane74 · #**4851** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 7:51 PM**

From Yonge and Dundas

Massey Tower - 208 meters

WhipperSnapper · #**4852** Posted **Mar 17, 2018, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Give me a break. You still can’t get over the mullions for EAP. That’s one of our nicest buildings.

I didn't bring up EAP. Why are you bringing up EAP? Centennial is 🞵🞵🞵🞵, IMHO. The sandcrawler is 🞵🞵🞵🞵 too even if there is nothing like it elsewhere. We have very different opinions on this stuff. I accept that. Why don't you give me a break?