Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Fort Rouge

[EdwardTH]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Gut-wrenching that Winnipeg's built heritage is being demolished and replaced by cheap, banal, bland and unimaginative structures. Almost certainly computer generated and actually quite sinister if you spend a few minutes looking at it. Nothing but architectural vandalism.

Man is this guy ever a ball of sunshine

[wardlow]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Gut-wrenching that Winnipeg's built heritage is being demolished and replaced by cheap, banal, bland and unimaginative structures. Almost certainly computer generated and actually quite sinister if you spend a few minutes looking at it. Nothing but architectural vandalism.

Wait -- designers do their work on *computers* now?!

[pspeid]

Originally Posted by wardlow

Wait -- designers do their work on *computers* now?!

What IS this.....the future???

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by wardlow

Wait -- designers do their work on *computers* now?!

Calling them designers is a stretch. Doesn't take any skill to "design" an ugly and cheap looking box. To think what is being lost.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by EdwardTH

Man is this guy ever a ball of sunshine

Almost as selfish and vapid as modernist architects are modernist apologists.

[wardlow]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Calling them designers is a stretch. Doesn't take any skill to "design" an ugly and cheap looking box. To think what is being lost.

In the case of 238 Wellington Crescent, what is being lost is one of many hundreds of balloon frame houses built circa 1907 in Fort Rouge. I think the neighbourhood will survive the shock.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by wardlow

In the case of 238 Wellington Crescent, what is being lost is one of many hundreds of balloon frame houses built circa 1907 in Fort Rouge. I think the neighbourhood will survive the shock.

Almost all people would survive an arm being amputated.

Lost to these malignant tumours are the streetcape and neighbourhood aesthetics. Incredibly disrespectful and narcissistic.

[ediger]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Almost all people would survive an arm being amputated.

Lost to these malignant tumours are the streetcape and neighbourhood aesthetics. Incredibly disrespectful and narcissistic.

I don't disagree with you here. It's one of the things that bugs me when people from outside of the existing community come in and try to gentrify an area. They generally lack the understanding and appreciation of what made the neighbourhood appealing in the first place. I get the buildings come and buildings go argument and to an extent I agree with that. But it's the people that make communities and when they are priced out of an area, what your left with is a soulless shell that lacks the people that made the area what it used to be. Kinda like Osborne Village.

[trueviking]

This is the best page on this forum in a long time. I needed the laugh.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by ediger

I don't disagree with you here. It's one of the things that bugs me when people from outside of the existing community come in and try to gentrify an area. They generally lack the understanding and appreciation of what made the neighbourhood appealing in the first place. I get the buildings come and buildings go argument and to an extent I agree with that. But it's the people that make communities and when they are priced out of an area, what your left with is a soulless shell that lacks the people that made the area what it used to be. Kinda like Osborne Village.

Curious on what your stance is with all the old people who bought $500m+ new condos in the Exchange, and now spend every breath of their existence to stop new bars opening or anything exciting events from happening – even though though that's been the character of the area for a long time.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by trueviking

This is the best page on this forum in a long time. I needed the laugh.

I'm glad that you are enjoying, but some of us aren't amused that once beautiful Victorian and Edwardian cities have become ugly and dysfunctional. Not content with utterly ruining the downtown area, modernists are now moving on to Winnipeg's most attractive districts, Crescentwood, Wolseley, Fort Rouge and old St. Boniface.

This is long, but is an excellent read:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/...y-architecture

Confirms what I have always believed, that modernism is an elitist philosophy, widely supported by those who have authoritarian leftist or fascistic political views (and there's not much between those two).

What might be enjoyable and interesting for all of us is to nominate Winnipeg's ugliest new buildings. Although not in the Village & Corydon area and just thinking fleetingly for the purpose of this post, I'll nominate the apartment block on the southwest corner of Maryland and Westminster. It has a cheap and temporary appearance, little better than a tent. Balconies attached not so people can sit outside and enjoy some fresh air, but to hold monstrous ugly air conditioning units. The emotion it conjures is similar to a situation when one wakes up naked and extremely hungover next to an unattractive person whose name escapes. It ruins the streetscape and appears to have been built only to act as a bad rash for beautiful Westminster United. Criminal.

Runner up is 290 Colony, perversely disjointed, designed to shock and appall, and screaming fu*k you at all who look, it would make an excellent backdrop for a movie set in a dystopian future.

[buzzg]

I wonder if the area around the WAG will be deemed racist soon since it's going to be only stark white buildings?

[Curmudgeon]

A competition like this should be held in Canada, there would be no shortage of nominees:

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/carbuncle...095270.article

I would gamble that many on this forum would screech that the buildings pictured are just "amazing" and a great addition to any urban environment.

[borkborkbork]

If we're nominating Winnipeg's worst buildings, I would nominate the 546 arch project on Wall St -- the one with the dead streetscape and rusting metal doors.

Obviously Fort Garry Place and 1 Wellington.

In the Village, the Corten-reclad buildings earlier in this thread deserve a Worst Recladding award (especially the one that's been covered in cheap vinyl signage for Poutine King).

[Tacheguy]

Originally Posted by borkborkbork

If we're nominating Winnipeg's worst buildings, I would nominate the 546 arch project on Wall St -- the one with the dead streetscape and rusting metal doors.

Obviously Fort Garry Place and 1 Wellington.

In the Village, the Corten-reclad buildings earlier in this thread deserve a Worst Recladding award (especially the one that's been covered in cheap vinyl signage for Poutine King).

Fort Garry place is in a league of its own. I show it to out of towners and tell them some rich eccentric built it as a joke.

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

I'm glad that you are enjoying, but some of us aren't amused that once beautiful Victorian and Edwardian cities have become ugly and dysfunctional. Not content with utterly ruining the downtown area, modernists are now moving on to Winnipeg's most attractive districts, Crescentwood, Wolseley, Fort Rouge and old St. Boniface.

...

Confirms what I have always believed, that modernism is an elitist philosophy, widely supported by those who have authoritarian leftist or fascistic political views (and there's not much between those two).

What might be enjoyable and interesting for all of us is to nominate Winnipeg's ugliest new buildings. Although not in the Village & Corydon area and just thinking fleetingly for the purpose of this post, I'll nominate the apartment block on the southwest corner of Maryland and Westminster. It has a cheap and temporary appearance, little better than a tent. Balconies attached not so people can sit outside and enjoy some fresh air, but to hold monstrous ugly air conditioning units. The emotion it conjures is similar to a situation when one wakes up naked and extremely hungover next to an unattractive person whose name escapes. It ruins the streetscape and appears to have been built only to act as a bad rash for beautiful Westminster United. Criminal.

YouTube - Paul Joseph Watson - Latest Atrocities in Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lB5QbMxvac

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by LilZebra

YouTube - Paul Joseph Watson - Latest Atrocities in Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lB5QbMxvac

paul joseph watson? that link is staying blue for me.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Confirms what I have always believed, that modernism is an elitist philosophy, widely supported by those who have authoritarian leftist or fascistic political views (and there's not much between those two).

I love it. Keep going.

I would have thought forcing modern design to artificially replicate the 1800’s would be the elitist authoritarian leftist fascist thing, but I must be mistaken.

Imagine if we forced new cars to look like faux Model A’s.

[trueviking]

Fort Garry Place isn’t a bad building. It’s kitsch but remove the sculptures and it’s fine. It’s high quality materials, a thousand residential units.

My nomination for worst building (excluding everything in the suburbs) is the fake historic parkade on Lombard. Worst by a mile if you ask me.

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by borkborkbork

paul joseph watson? that link is staying blue for me.

Whatcha talkin' about?