The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 529

SkahHigh · #**10561** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 5:12 PM**

How about this tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.414993,-7...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Looks so bland and out of place that it was used in David Cronenberg's movie Scanners as the headquarters of an evil corporation:

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harls · #**10562** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 5:21 PM**

Poor Wake.

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GeneralLea · #**10563** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

How about this tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.414993,-7...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Looks so bland and out of place that it was used in David Cronenberg's movie Scanners as the headquarters of an evil corporation:

amazonaws

It's definitely ugly for it's location and the giant blank pillars on it's sides that create even more blank space than their already is, though if those pillars were removed and this was placed somewhere that would make it look less stupid, it wouldn't be as fugly.

I think it'd be perfect in Mississauga, next to this similar but smaller sized building, which isn't very ugly:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5943139,-...B5jSl8pgQGznH7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Speaking of squat office buildings, Mississauga has many...like this one that looks like it copied the FCP in Toronto, got turned diagonally, then was surrounded by surface parking because underground parking was supposedly too expensive for a lot of developers at the time. (A clocktower in the distance...)
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5890092,-...ncBuit_jRKZQNZg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

And this POS. I have no clue when it was built, I'm going to guess late 90's. It's squat, and has aged poorly with whatever blue cladding they used....bleugh:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5920783,-...shEXc23fcw90Bog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

WhipperSnapper · #**10564** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 8:51 PM**

It definitely looks evil. I don't find ConSec ugly.

P.S. How do see FCP in that building?

GeneralLea · #**10565** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 8:57 PM**

Think of the basic tower design of FCP, before it was reclad a few years ago. Even then, I know what you mean, but on a purely cladding based look, they look at least somewhat similar, like if the architects on the Mississauga building cheaped out hardcore on the FCP design and put in a 9th of the height on the building.

O-tacular · #**10566** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 10:18 PM**

SkahHigh · #**10567** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 10:20 PM**

Dat sweat

Architype · #**10568** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 10:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

How about this tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.414993,-7...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Looks so bland and out of place that it was used in David Cronenberg's movie Scanners as the headquarters of an evil corporation:

amazonaws

But at least they saved the wetland;

https://goo.gl/maps/yChBLEU5Bcs

O-tacular · #**10569** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 11:04 PM**

christmas · #**10570** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 11:21 PM**

^ ur amazing

GeneralLea · #**10571** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 11:45 PM**

Loving this series, the Lavalian Doom-bringer never misses a fugly miscreant!

WhipperSnapper · #**10572** Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 11:48 PM**

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Trump, Ford and, Talon. Some Trifeca.

O-tacular · #**10573** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 3:15 AM**

Reposting this here where it belongs.

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Originally Posted by Urbmtl

Should I post it directly on the ugly Canada thread?

Le Smith - U/C - Quartier des spectacles, Montreal - 25fl

MolsonExport · #**10574** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 3:31 AM**

Le Smith? kind of like The Tremblay.

MolsonExport · #**10575** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 3:32 AM**

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amazing. What is that in the background? Mississauga?

MolsonExport · #**10576** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

How about this tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.414993,-7...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Looks so bland and out of place that it was used in David Cronenberg's movie Scanners as the headquarters of an evil corporation:

amazonaws

What is really funny is that a horror movie was set in the building:Visiting Hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visiting_Hours

O-tacular · #**10577** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 3:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

amazing. What is that in the background? Mississauga?

City Place in Toronto. I erased the actual CN tower for its' stand in.

lio45 · #**10578** Posted **Jul 29, 2017, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

How about this tower in Vaudreuil-Dorion?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.414993,-7...itch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Looks so bland and out of place that it was used in David Cronenberg's movie Scanners as the headquarters of an evil corporation:

amazonaws

I really like that building, actually. Very clean style, futuristic, sleek, without being tacky. Aesthetically, everything's done right, too. (i.e. from an architectural standpoint, there aren't any big "no no"s there.)

vid · #**10579** Posted **Jul 30, 2017, 3:27 AM**

I agree with Lio, so someone record this date. Shit like this is hella rare.

lio45 · #**10580** Posted **Jul 30, 2017, 4:58 AM**

Lol, come on, we don't even disagree that often. Good taste, BTW