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

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

That thing is new?!?

Yup brand spanking new. Hard to believe, every new building in London is like that. Makes me feel grateful about the fugly glass boxes we have in Toronto.

[stevanford1]

London Ontario’s slab city apartments.
https://www.emporis.com/complex/1048...-london-canada

[stevanford1]

I nominate the Link Apartments in Edmonton

[kool maudit]

The Alberta cities pretty much have the worst vernacular housing stock in Canada.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

The Alberta cities pretty much have the worst vernacular housing stock in Canada.

I’d be hard pressed to argue with you. The use of stucco, vinyl siding and now hardie panels with easy trim is so common it’s mundane. At least the tacky Mcmansions out east use real materials like stone and brick and there’a usually more variation in form than just being a box. We do better driveways though. Asphalt driveways are fugly imo.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

I nominate the Link Apartments in Edmonton

Edmonton is doing to modern architecture what it did to Italien architecture. Another poor imitation with horrific results.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Edmonton is doing to modern architecture what it did to Italien architecture. Reminds me of another poor imitation with horrific results.

Speaking of The Venetian I did a street view around it and if the front has made it tied with The Rooms the back and sides make it the second ugliest building in Canada! The back end looks like an ugly multicoloured mush of awfulness.


Here’s a better pic
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146730...eposted-public

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

We do better driveways though. Asphalt driveways are fugly imo.

In had to look on streetsview, you guys do concrete it seems. That makes way more sense. Although it's strange finding dirt laneways almost downtown.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.06834...7i13312!8i6656

This reminds me a lot of the burbs around Buffalo and other rust-belt cities.


Also I find it strange that Calgary doesn't seem to do a good job of maintaining it's trees. I thought it's a city flush with cash. These trees would never get like this in Toronto. If the city misses a tree here there is a hotline you can call to have them come prune it. It looks like most of the trees need about 5 ft of lower branches to be trimmed of. https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.06788...7i13312!8i6656

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

In had to look on streetsview, you guys do concrete it seems. That makes way more sense. Although it's strange finding dirt laneways almost downtown.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.06834...7i13312!8i6656

This reminds me a lot of the burbs around Buffalo and other rust-belt cities.


Also I find it strange that Calgary doesn't seem to do a good job of maintaining it's trees. I thought it's a city flush with cash. These trees would never get like this in Toronto. If the city misses a tree here there is a hotline you can call to have them come prune it. It looks like most of the trees need about 5 ft of lower branches to be trimmed of. https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.06788...7i13312!8i6656

Maybe it’s because trees struggle to grow in our climate so we don’t want to prune them too aggressively? Or something like that.

The worst is actually when city planted trees die. They sit there for years before being removed.

[O-tacular]

Behold the building that houses Canada's most expensive condo. WTF?!?



See more here:

https://luxuryresidence.ca/2018/10/1...pensive-condo/

[MolsonExport]

Blah!

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Behold the building that houses Canada's most expensive condo. WTF?!?



See more here:

https://luxuryresidence.ca/2018/10/1...pensive-condo/

That looks awful! I expected the most expensive condo to be in some glass box not.....that.

[O-tacular]

More of 155 Cumberland for your viewing displeasure:







Easily the clunkiest looking mixed use building in the country.

Some history on it from Urban Toronto:

Constructed in 1960 in the Modernist style, the first 10 floors of the Bregman + Hamann-designed building live on as office space (with updated retail at ground level), while floors 11-12 have been converted to condominiums. The 13th and 14th floors contain the legendary 'Torno' penthouse, with heritage-designated interiors attributed to Philip Johnson.

This project's most notable aspect was the construction of seven new storeys of residential space above the existing building. Back in July of 2008, the steel skeleton of the new addition could be seen easily from Queen's Park and Bloor, rising from the existing office building.

http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2015/02/...or-street-west

[niwell]

Maybe it's just me, but I actually think it's a pretty interesting building in person. The residential portion is almost entirely hidden from street level on Bloor and you can mostly see the modernist office base, which is pretty sharp.

This is the view from Bloor:

https://goo.gl/maps/THQuxAnU2pA2

https://goo.gl/maps/yK1BgKnAux52

From Cumberland is a bit more awkward:

https://goo.gl/maps/w96z4tjYdyE2

You can see the residential addition better from this vantage point: https://goo.gl/maps/HQ159VshiAD2

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Easily the clunkiest looking mixed use building in the country.

Blooor Dundas Sqaure wants a word with you .

https://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/0...loorDundas.jpg

[ssiguy]

That Toronto proposal is nauseating. Has that dump actually been approved?

[esquire]

What a shameful butchering of an otherwise attractive mid-century modern building.

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by niwell

Maybe it's just me, but I actually think it's a pretty interesting building in person. The residential portion is almost entirely hidden from street level on Bloor and you can mostly see the modernist office base, which is pretty sharp.

Nope, I don't mind it at all. It's a little top-heavy and the West side has no windows, but I think it manages to respect the street presence of the original building while having it's own completely different character.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

I nominate the Link Apartments in Edmonton

This is a proposal for Kennedy Road in Scarborough. It also belongs here.
Source: urbantoronto.ca

[HomeInMyShoes]

The only thing better than siding...is siding on a much larger scale.