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Old Posted Jun 13, 2024, 1:37 AM
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So far the office to residential conversions in Calgary are producing some real uggos. This one takes the cake. A 13 story addition to this bland office building:







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Old Posted Jun 13, 2024, 1:53 AM
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Everyone will definitely know where the original building started and ended.
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Old Posted Jun 13, 2024, 2:09 AM
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From last week, saw an interesting bumper sticker. Sadly, this is not the worst thing you will see when wandering around St. James Town.

Then, I noticed the scum at the bottom of the Love Park's pool is still present. I hope they are working out the kinks and it won't always be like this. It has looked like that all through May until early June so far.

And today I drove around many parts of Etobicoke, North York, York and Scarborough. The more you do that, the more you realize how much of TO just looks shitty or mediocre. I wonder what it's like to be a delivery driver in the city. Doing it every day. Just chaos. So many people and cars. And so many of the people and so much property just looks so grungy. I mean, I don't like monotonous modern crap in the suburbs either, but so many of the decades old properties are just so rundown looking. And the parking lots too. At least it doesn't look like 80's NYC at the height of their urban decay.

Even in rich areas, as soon as your leave your quaint street, you hit the same shit everyone else does. I went to Yorkdale for the first time in over a decade and it was so interesting to see the fancy rich people walking around knowing they drove through the same garbage street I did to get there: Dufferin. If I were rich like that, I couldn't take it.

As soon as I left Etobicoke and got off the QEW onto Erin Mills in Mississauga it felt so good to have space again, on the road, the gas station and the rental agency parking lot. Room to maneuver again.






Etobicoke. There's way more and way worse I could have posted, but I already did over the past couple of years.




This is just a funny bumper sticker. A reference to the show Yellowstone where if the patriarch of the Yellowstone Ranch (Costner) doesn't want you working there anymore, he has one of his guys like Rip or Lloyd take you to the train station. Which just means they're taking you to the middle of nowhere and putting one or two rounds in your dome.




Well, you can't put anything taller than 2.5 feet in this truck. I guess that's how you can avoid having to do hauling favours for your buddies. They'll have to find another means of moving furniture.







Not gonna lie, I might have riced out my car like this when I was in highschool, thinking it looked cool.




North York. A property my company lends on. Every stairwell leading to the underground parking or a mechanical room looks like this. Last year I went there after rain and it was flooded. Other properties I visited also had stairwells like this.




North York, on Jane. An apartment building or an industrial storage facility? Hint: People live here.

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Old Posted Jun 13, 2024, 12:44 PM
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So far the office to residential conversions in Calgary are producing some real uggos. This one takes the cake. A 13 story addition to this bland office building:








Bleh. topped by Bleh (every cheapo condo tower has the same Bleh design/colour scheme).
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Old Posted Jun 15, 2024, 8:16 PM
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Well, you can't put anything taller than 2.5 feet in this truck. I guess that's how you can avoid having to do hauling favours for your buddies. They'll have to find another means of moving furniture.


Congratulations I haven’t seen a truck like that in Alberta! Wow! That spoiler’s really going to increase that behemoth’s aerodynamics and speed!

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North York, on Jane. An apartment building or an industrial storage facility? Hint: People live here.
Reminds me of that fugly apartment complex in Edmonton.
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Bleh. topped by Bleh (every cheapo condo tower has the same Bleh design/colour scheme).
This one is even more overly complex and ugly than most though. If you’re going to go cheap at least go simple and try to integrate it better with the old office portion. Do people on the bottom floors just not get balconies?
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https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9667...5409&entry=ttu

Weird garage extension. Half the house is garage it seems.

Also weird cul de sac with borderline liminal greenspace.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9654...5409&entry=ttu

Also this ugly weird house:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9655...5409&entry=ttu

Gotta love this view on a major arterial road:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9639...5409&entry=ttu

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9640...5409&entry=ttu
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Old Posted Jun 18, 2024, 4:59 PM
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North York, on Jane. An apartment building or an industrial storage facility? Hint: People live here.
Technically an apartment building however, these are condos

and the situation is worse than the look of the outside
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...airs-1.6323195
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Looks more like an Amazon Fulfillment Centre.
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https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9667...5409&entry=ttu

Weird garage extension. Half the house is garage it seems.

Also weird cul de sac with borderline liminal greenspace.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9654...5409&entry=ttu

Also this ugly weird house:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9655...5409&entry=ttu

Gotta love this view on a major arterial road:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9639...5409&entry=ttu

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9640...5409&entry=ttu
Thanks for bringing such beauty to my eyes, just in time for lunch.
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McMansion made of Poo:




Apparently it is somewhere in London (Ontario)
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Garageland with extremely ugly portico and mishmash of brick and yucco stucco.
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271 William Street, London Ontario.

8 Henry Street, London Ontario.


315 Oakland Avenue, London, Ontario.


200 Adelaide Street North, London, Ontario.
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Garageland with extremely ugly portico and mishmash of brick and yucco stucco.
They need a bigger porte-cochère for the limo.
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They need a bigger porte-cochère for the limo.
Imagine the bird shit that drops from up in there.

(this has to be AI, right? Something like 'Give me Tony Soprano's place but make it look more gaudy')
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Some real doozies there in Calgary. I refuse to believe that weird garage one is real. As I can't see how someone could possibly design that and someone agree to build that, I can only say that it's an optical illusion.
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Old Posted Jun 19, 2024, 3:09 AM
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McMansion made of Poo:


Apparently it is somewhere in London (Ontario)
It kind of looks like subway tiles are used as a feature, nice touch.
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Old Posted Jun 19, 2024, 5:21 PM
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Thanks for bringing such beauty to my eyes, just in time for lunch.
You’re most welcome! Here is the entree to the appetizer.














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