Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 252

kwoldtimer · #**5021** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 2:09 AM**

Spawn of The Rooms?

AuxTown · #**5022** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 3:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Holy shit that is crazy! I appreciate that this house is simple and probably easy to construct but I'm not sure why it would win any architecture awards. Also not sure who would pay 1.7 for that?? I'm sure the interior is done up to the nines. Maybe it's an "iceberg home" like the ones that are going up in toronto

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SignalHillHiker · #**5023** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 8:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

So what makes this abomination worth $1.7m? And amazing that they give out awards for this. Do they give awards for dropping a turd on the ground too?

No idea. $1.7M, to me, here, has to be one of the suburban McMansions with ocean views. That would be my only guess if you told me the price and asked me to describe the house.

A new build that close to downtown doesn’t have a lot of comparable properties but I’d still guess $940K-$1.4M. And there’s definitely a mental dividing line at $1.4M where it does not feel possible to be more in that area.

esquire · #**5024** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 3:30 PM**

$1.7 M seems like an awful lot at first glance but I think the home looks pretty nice in a rustic kind of way, I'm not sure what the problem is with its appearance?! I'd be curious to see what it looks like inside.

O-tacular · #**5025** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 5:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

$1.7 M seems like an awful lot at first glance but I think the home looks pretty nice in a rustic kind of way, I'm not sure what the problem is with its appearance?! I'd be curious to see what it looks like inside.

Agreed. It seems way overpriced but hardly Rooms levels of ugly.

O-tacular · #**5026** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 5:40 PM**

How's this for ugly:

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Sorry for swearing but F@ck No! It seems I was wrong about the Irish Embassy site. This better get rejected and the OMB better stay out of it. But lets face it, this will probably happen. At the very least I hope this is not the final design.

source: urbantoronto.ca

Address 49 - 51 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1J1
Category Condo, Office
Status Pre-Construction
Number of Buildings 1
Height 710 ft / 216.36 m
Storeys 60
Number of Units 258

Developer SmartCentres REIT
Architect architects—Alliance
Heritage Architect GBCA Architects
Landscape Architect MEP Design Inc.
Engineering Gradient Wind Engineers & Scientists, Grounded Engineering Inc., EQ Building Performance Inc., COUNTERPOINT ENGINEERING
Legal Goodmans LLP
Site Services J.D. Barnes Limited, AS&G Archaeological Consulting
Transportation & Infrastructure HDR
Other Goldberg Group

A beautiful historic building reduced to a cankle for the horrid condo box above.

SignalHillHiker · #**5027** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 5:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

$1.7 M seems like an awful lot at first glance but I think the home looks pretty nice in a rustic kind of way, I'm not sure what the problem is with its appearance?! I'd be curious to see what it looks like inside.

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Agreed. It seems way overpriced but hardly Rooms levels of ugly.

I don’t know how to explain good taste to ye (

Couldn’t even keep a straight face typing that lol).

I don’t mind the cankle building at all. Looks nice and interesting to me haha.

O-tacular · #**5028** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 5:50 PM**

Just searched mls for houses between 1-2 million for Calgary. Found this rural grain elevator cult compound:

http://diane-richardson.com/calgary-...m-1x0.96062339

Now that's hideous.

O-tacular · #**5029** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 5:52 PM**

How about this fugly reno for $1.95 million outside the city limits:

http://diane-richardson.com/calgary-...z-3m8.96063813

Or this hideous McMonster in a farmers field converted to McMansion development east of the city which probably smells like cow shit due to its proximity to stockyards:

http://diane-richardson.com/calgary-...z-0a2.96047454

esquire · #**5030** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 6:00 PM**

Now THOSE are some real uglies!

thewave46 · #**5031** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 6:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I almost admire that person's dedication to symmetry despite all common sense. It's like a semi-detached home, but not.

It's like chunks of suburban Edmonton with discontinuous streets that still have the same street name/number. It's insanity and madness, but someone was determined to keep that grid street naming system regardless of whatever the streets were doing.

megadude · #**5032** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 9:33 PM**

Wow. It would be easy to think that first one was actually an old barn and silo that they slapped some cladding on and called it a house. The owner either loved farming and decided to custom build that or a developer built it thinking someone would like the novelty of it.

Gresto · #**5033** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 9:58 PM**

That house with the four garages symmetrically arranged would be perfect for the divorced couple that wants continue living together. Each party can even shovel his or her side of the driveway.

WhipperSnapper · #**5034** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 10:46 PM**

The Halifax first floor interior must be spectacular.

WhipperSnapper · #**5035** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 10:50 PM**

Checkmate Hill

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2572...7i16384!8i8192

O-tacular · #**5036** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Checkmate Hill

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2572...7i16384!8i8192

I've seen that building in Red Deer before and found the archway bizarre. How did you find it in such an obscure location?

SignalHillHiker · #**5037** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

The Halifax first floor interior must be spectacular.

(Hehe)

O-tacular · #**5038** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

Wow. It would be easy to think that first one was actually an old barn and silo that they slapped some cladding on and called it a house. The owner either loved farming and decided to custom build that or a developer built it thinking someone would like the novelty of it.

Reminds me of this Frankenhouse that you can see on the Cowboy Trail heading to Cochrane:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1432...7i16384!8i8192

O-tacular · #**5039** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 11:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

(Hehe)

Lol! I was imagining your eye twitching when I read that.

Architype · #**5040** Posted **Nov 25, 2021, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

...

http://diane-richardson.com/calgary-...z-3m8.96063813

Or this hideous McMonster in a farmers field converted to McMansion development east of the city which probably smells like cow shit due to its proximity to stockyards:

http://diane-richardson.com/calgary-...z-0a2.96047454

I like symmetry, but aside from making it appear more anthropomorphic, it wasn't worth it here, it might have looked better with only one projecting wing on top, but are the his 'n her garages representative of a duality or gender equality? And the porte-cochère, is perhaps a desperate nod to the past when equality wasn't even a real word.