Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 50

MolsonExport · #**981** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 2:49 PM**

Clockzilla's grandmother is from Kingston.

mckendry

Edmonton, Represent!

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stevanford1 · #**982** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 2:53 PM**

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Clockzilla's grandmother is from Kingston.

mckendry

Edmonton, Represent!

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Last week I was in Kingston and saw Princess Towers. It’s right up there with Clockzilla in my book. I drove past that part of Toronto all the time. It’s all godawful.

stevanford1 · #**983** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:00 PM**

We in Toronto have plenty of ugly shopping plazas. Lawrence Sqaure is one that springs to mind. Its main tenant used to be Zellers and it’s right by Yorkdale so in my opinion it’s screwed.

The inside looks like it sprung out of the 80s.

The food court is just sad.

MolsonExport · #**984** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:09 PM**

I used to teach in this fugly building (much better, actually pretty cool on the inside, but fugly on the outside)

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I also used to teach in this fugly building. Known as the Hall Building, most refer to it as the Hell Building. Many of those windows are not actually windows (covered with slats)...there is almost no natural light in this behemoth of a building that would be a death trap in the event of a serious fire. Also the site of Canada's most famous riot, and the massacre of four engineering professors.

wookie'srectum

see how it fits into the neighborhood:

clunckordia

you can see the slats covering some of the "windows"

O-tacular · #**985** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:09 PM**

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Ches’s may have the least appealing food I have ever seen.

Hmm what to cook OH I KNOW. Let’s slap some onions onto some fish and dump a gravy/shut mixture on top of it.

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Man that looks more like diarrhea and fries, than vomit and fries. Revolting.

It looks like used Depends. I don't think I could stomach eating it with my eyes open.

O-tacular · #**986** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:12 PM**

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This kind of crap is pretty much everywhere and that’s a problem. It may look bland, but block after block after block after block this same building. it’s pretty much infesting our cities. This is the Riocan Bayview by the way.

The Riocanization of the world.

stevanford1 · #**987** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I used to teach in this fugly building (much better, actually pretty cool on the inside, but fugly on the outside)

huffpuff

I also used to teach in this fugly building. Known as the Hall Building, most refer to it as the Hell Building. Many of those windows are not actually windows (covered with slats)...there is almost no natural light in this behemoth of a building that would be a death trap in the event of a serious fire. Also the site of Canada's most famous riot, and the massacre of four engineering professors.

wookie'srectum

see how it fits into the neighborhood:

clunckordia

you can see the slats covering some of the "windows"

Both are brutal.

stevanford1 · #**988** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:26 PM**

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The Riocanization of the world.

Perfect description. They also seem to have taken residence in this nightmare of a building.

suburbanite · #**989** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:28 PM**

Not quite as bad as Smartcentres but that's not saying much.

If you keep driving down Dundas for another hour you can find a new gem in Oakville. Seems to be a private owner, but they've certainly made a splash. With the fake wall and parapets it looks like the facade of a cheap western movie set piece.

stevanford1 · #**990** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:39 PM**

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Not quite as bad as Smartcentres but that's not saying much.

If you keep driving down Dundas for another hour you can find a new gem in Oakville. Seems to be a private owner, but they've certainly made a splash. With the fake wall and parapets it looks like the facade of a cheap western movie set piece.

I just went to that plaza a couple weeks ago! The Fortinos is impossible to navigate and everything looks godawful architecturally speaking.

stevanford1 · #**991** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 3:48 PM**

There’s a Riocan in Burloak (by the shitty chain hotels) that’s just pure big box dreck.

But let’s not forget the fine dining.

O-tacular · #**992** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 4:35 PM**

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Clockzilla's grandmother is from Kingston.

mckendry

Irkustkian!

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Yikes. This part of Toronto (such a prominent intersection) got hit hard with the ugly stick
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6562...7i16384!8i8192

Nothing cheapens a location like a Dollarama.

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Is this the ugliest shopping plaza in the entire world?
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9991...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9992...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9996...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9994...7i13312!8i6656

What, pray tell, do you think goes on at the Blue Lagoon?
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9994...7i13312!8i6656

Ah yes, the world's shittiest strip mall with a streetview of the parking lot.

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Sexy Time!
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0043...7i13312!8i6656

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I like how it proudly advertises that it still has heart shaped tubs. WTF is a steam cabinet?!? A sauna? Niiice!!

stevanford1 · #**993** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 4:48 PM**

Speaking of Clockzilla. Laval just got some clockless versions of clockzilla.

stevanford1 · #**994** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 4:50 PM**

Although they still do not hold a candle to clockzilla itself.

stevanford1 · #**995** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 4:54 PM**

The Calgary Tower has really lost its lustre as of late. It looks like an oversized tootsie pop.

stevanford1 · #**996** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 4:56 PM**

Another problematic tower would be the Harbour Center in Vancouver. The tower just shouldn’t be there.

stevanford1 · #**997** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 5:02 PM**

Speaking of Vancouver, the HSBC Tower is plain awful. The odd dome at the top looks clunky and odd and the colours don’t quite match up.

MolsonExport · #**998** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 5:42 PM**

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Perfect description. They also seem to have taken residence in this nightmare of a building.

^that building is utterly Cliftonhillian.

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MolsonExport · #**999** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 5:44 PM**

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The Calgary Tower has really lost its lustre as of late. It looks like an oversized tootsie pop.

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MolsonExport · #**1000** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

Not quite as bad as Smartcentres but that's not saying much.

If you keep driving down Dundas for another hour you can find a new gem in Oakville. Seems to be a private owner, but they've certainly made a splash. With the fake wall and parapets it looks like the facade of a cheap western movie set piece.

yes, of course. And there is that fugly CIBC logo again!