The Ugly Canada Thread

[flipv]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

No, Kaliningrad.

Either way, doesn't belong or align with Ottawa.

[MolsonExport]

Even if not entirely hideous, this thing (Complexe Guy Favreau in Montreal) is still yarky, as it sucks the soul out of the street.

Walking on the sidewalk on a cold cloudy day in February next to this thing...

imtl

[flipv]

Looks nothing like socialist brutalism. That's just PoMo-lite.

[MolsonExport]

This thing above Sherbrooke Metro Station: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5182343,-...97PYKGS9CfTmaykqdPx9g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by flipv

Looks nothing like socialist brutalism. That's just PoMo-lite.

Never said either way.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

3 headed monster? Looks bad but lacks Clockzilla's purposeful hideousness. That's the difference.

Heads need to be at least twice as big with a red rooster weather vane on each to be contender.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The banality of ugly. Canadian government office buildings. Ugly no matter where you find them, but here Ottawa punches above its weight (don't get me started on Hull):


canadaalive, Wookie's pedia

In keeping with this trend here's Calgary's Harry Hayes building.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Heads need to be at least twice as big with a red rooster weather vane on each to be contender.

The cock needs to be on the centre head. We could call it Cockzilla.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by niwell

I think both of those are decent buildings... I also kind of like the big complexes in Gatineau (Place du Portage and Terrasses de la Chaudière). Possibly not worth what they destroyed and they aren't particularly pedestrian friendly.

It's the cheap maximizing floor plate newer office buildings in Ottawa that are pretty awful: https://goo.gl/maps/Xdc7CRpZuDR2


And some of the newer condos: https://goo.gl/maps/wKgMtQyfMv42

Reminds me of DT Calgary's west end.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0481074,-...6ZtpAWmzWe5gi08MAXqeQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I wonder if that Scarborough proposal will end up looking like that?

[O-tacular]

One of the ugliest stretches in all of Calgary:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0670555,-...4aUK3G3BqpPxDwjsphXrw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

One of the ugliest stretches in all of Calgary:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0670555,-...4aUK3G3BqpPxDwjsphXrw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

With a Sears!

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

With a Sears!

And not just any SEARS!!! The oldest, shittiest SEARS in the city. I remember trying to cut through there on lunch breaks from ACAD on my way to the mall foodcourt. Imagine Dawn of the Dead but with silver hair as far as the eye can see. Every time you try to cut around a pair of old geezers shuffling arm in arm down the middle of the aisle you get stuck behind another pair.

[O-tacular]

Some sexy shots of Northhill SEARS:









If they could just build a Residences Soleil in the adjacent parking lot it would become old people Mecca.

[O-tacular]

Nothing will ever be this sexy though:

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Some sexy shots of Northhill SEARS:









If they could just build a Residences Soleil in the adjacent parking lot it would become old people Mecca.

the silver and blue....depends....pot-pourri...oh look Mildred! It's SEARS DAYS!

Remember the old days when there was an in-store restaurant? Salisbury steak with glazed carrots, instant mashed potatoes with gravy, blueberry cobbler...Senior Paradise.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

the silver and blue....depends....pot-pourri...oh look Mildred! It's SEARS DAYS!

Remember the old days when there was an in-store restaurant? Salisbury steak with glazed carrots, instant mashed potatoes with gravy, blueberry cobbler...Senior Paradise.

Hot hamburger, jello salad, hollowed out pumpernickel bread with some sort of thing to dip your food in if you're getting all ethnic and adventurous, apple pie with a triangle of white cheese on it, bottomless cup of coffee served with the meal and all meals eaten before 6 pm and the ambience is complete.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Hot hamburger, jello salad, hollowed out pumpernickel bread with some sort of thing to dip your food in if you're getting all ethnic and adventurous, apple pie with a triangle of white cheese on it, bottomless cup of coffee served with the meal and all meals eaten before 6 pm and the ambience is complete.

When I worked at SEARS the old people only came there to go to the cafe on the third floor. They would all be gone by mid afternoon for their naps. Only things I ever saw them actually buy in store were batteries and cordless phones with giant numbers. Once the cafe closed the numbers of old people dwindled drastically.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Hot hamburger, jello salad, hollowed out pumpernickel bread with some sort of thing to dip your food in if you're getting all ethnic and adventurous, apple pie with a triangle of white cheese on it, bottomless cup of coffee served with the meal and all meals eaten before 6 pm and the ambience is complete.

...Lawrence Welk or Barry Manilow on the speakers....

jello salad

[O-tacular]

Thank God I wasn't alive to see this:

[MolsonExport]

Looks like a coil of bleeding octopus tentacles or something.

ring-around-the-tuna.
Sounds nasty.