Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 94

stevanford1 · #**1861** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:25 PM**

Edmonton apparently has a castle house.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4937...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4936...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4939...7i13312!8i6656

O-tacular · #**1862** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Yeah the urban planning is atrocious. Heres the third building in what I have officially dubbed the terrible trio.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5388...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5384...7i13312!8i6656

Heres all of them together united in fugliness.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5389...7i13312!8i6656

I drove by them last summer and might be able to provide some context and explanation. They are built into the side of a hill. The monster parkades are on the backside where it drops off. I don’t mind the taller two as they are kind of interesting in a retro sort of way. That ketchup and mustard monstrosity is awful though.

stevanford1 · #**1863** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I drove by them last summer and might be able to provide some context and explanation. They are built into the side of a hill. The monster parkades are on the backside where it drops off. I don’t mind the taller two as they are kind of interesting in a retro sort of way. That ketchup and mustard monstrosity is awful though.

Ah I see. Thanks for explaining

Chadillaccc · #**1864** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:40 PM**

The hideousness of that house will haunt my dreams forever.

O-tacular · #**1865** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Edmonton apparently has a castle house.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4937...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4936...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4939...7i13312!8i6656

That looks familiar. I think it was posted in the old thread at some point. I’m not sure how I was able to forget it. Calgary’s castle has met its match. I love how it was literally just plopped on top of the existing house. How was this allowed to be built?

Edit: what is the weird robot / medical equipment thing in front of the door? Multiple levels of strangeness going on here. I imagine the neighbours from The Burbs living there.

Nicko999 · #**1866** Posted **Feb 23, 2019, 10:44 PM**

Jesus, the house is the most hideous thing i've seen and that's saying a lot.

MolsonExport · #**1867** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 1:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Edmonton apparently has a castle house.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4937...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4936...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4939...7i13312!8i6656

O. My. Fucking. Gawd.
That. Is. Horr.i.ble.

Gresto · #**1868** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 3:44 AM**

Folks, I think we have a winner... er, loser.

ssiguy · #**1869** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 5:02 AM**

After seeing that Edmonton horror story I'll neever complain about Vancouver Specials again.

Xelebes · #**1870** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 8:32 AM**

Would have been a nice touch if they used bottled cement instead of stucco. It would still look kitsch as hell but that small detail would have made it slightly interesting.

Proof Sheet · #**1871** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 12:53 PM**

Wow..that is ugly. I'm sure the neighbours love it.

About the only advantage is you could use it as a landmark to help people get to your house if you lived on that street.

Kids would love to see it. See link below with young kids with an adult looking at it.

https://goo.gl/maps/7zpR1h2xLyw

stevanford1 · #**1872** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 1:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

what is the weird robot / medical equipment thing in front of the door? Multiple levels of strangeness going on here. I imagine the neighbours from The Burbs living there.

Believe it or not that’s an old fashion dentist chair, the guy who lives there is apparently a dentist.

stevanford1 · #**1873** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 1:11 PM**

Here is the interior of the castle.

stevanford1 · #**1874** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 1:12 PM**

No ones mentioned these things yet?

stevanford1 · #**1875** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 1:27 PM**

I present the headquarters of IBM Canada.

Xelebes · #**1876** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 4:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

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What is going on in that section of Edmonton anyway? Just chaotic urban planning.

The city was originally built heavily on the dales (Rossdale, Cloverdale, Riverdale) but the flood of 1915 pushed development away from those areas. So a lot of the roads that negotiated the trip up the valley are steep and double-back on themselves. It was not viable to locate properties on these roads. But seeking opportunities to take advantage of the views of these valley-edge properties in the 1960s gets us a handfull of towers that needed to get creative with placing parking and pedestrian infrastructure. So you get a bit of a web of concrete and walls of parking. I mean, what are you going to put facing McDougall Hill, the old oxcart path up the valley? Suites that look onto this switchback? A blank concrete wall with perhaps a mural?

McDougall Hill, Bellamy Hill, Queen Elizabeth Park, Walterdale Hill, Grierson Hill all have these problems.

O-tacular · #**1877** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Believe it or not that’s an old fashion dentist chair, the guy who lives there is apparently a dentist.

I thought it reminded me of a dentist somehow. This is all starting to come back to me now. Isn’t he Austrian or something? What is your source for this? What inspired this abomination?

O-tacular · #**1878** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Wow..that is ugly. I'm sure the neighbours love it.

About the only advantage is you could use it as a landmark to help people get to your house if you lived on that street.

Kids would love to see it. See link below with young kids with an adult looking at it.

https://goo.gl/maps/7zpR1h2xLyw

That little girl pointing is hilarious! It must be a local tourist attraction. I wonder what the congregation of the ugly pyramid church across the street thinks? If you keep going past the mom holding the kid there’s a blue house next to the church that is literally covering its eyes with trees. That would be the only solution to dealing with such ugliness it seems.

O-tacular · #**1879** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

No ones mentioned these things yet?

I also like the miniature canons in the turrets.

WTF is going on inside? Reminiscent of the Calgary castle with the 70’s furniture. What are those strangely coloured Dr. Seussian feather plants hanging from the ceiling? I’m so intrigued. I want to meet the man responsible for this and find out what makes him tick. Does he practice dark magic in that weird castle den with oddly placed furniture? Does he host masonic swap meets? Does he sacrifice goats to his dark lord? Is he somehow being influenced by the malign all seeing eye of Laval?

Xelebes · #**1880** Posted **Feb 24, 2019, 5:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I also like the miniature canons in the turrets.

WTF is going on inside? Reminiscent of the Calgary castle with the 70’s furniture. What are those strangely coloured Dr. Seussian feather plants hanging from the ceiling? I’m so intrigued. I want to meet the man responsible for this and find out what makes him tick. Does he practice dark magic in that weird castle den with oddly placed furniture? Does he host masonic swap meets? Does he sacrifice goats to his dark lord? Is he somehow being influenced by the malign all seeing eye of Laval?

He wanted to make a castle for his daughter, so the story goes.