Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 108

MolsonExport · #**2141** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 2:07 PM**

^Toronto's answer to Montreal's cheesegrater hotel (Chateau Champlain)?

niwell · #**2142** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 2:17 PM**

I miss the Constellation Hotel - it was an iconic landmark for the area and way better (architecturally) than the vast majority of cookie-cutter hotels in the area. It seemed to sit as an empty hulk for quite some time.

O-tacular · #**2143** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 2:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

It's gone now, but the king of the Toronto airport strip in the '80s was the Constellation.

That was awesome! I can imagine so many 80’s movies taking place there. Danny Glover would totally chase the Predator on that rooftop. I miss hotels with seedy neon roof signs.

stevanford1 · #**2144** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^Toronto's answer to Montreal's cheesegrater hotel (Chateau Champlain)?

Ah, The Marriott in Montreal.

O-tacular · #**2145** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 3:14 PM**

Montreal's cheese grater has grown on me.

stevanford1 · #**2146** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 3:48 PM**

Belaire, another gem from Surrey.

O-tacular · #**2147** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 4:00 PM**

The whole thing is a mess, but what is with that single arched window?

stevanford1 · #**2148** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 4:13 PM**

Get a load of this faux European mall in Edmonton.

O-tacular · #**2149** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Get a load of this faux European mall in Edmonton.

That looks like It's a Small World.

O-tacular · #**2150** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 4:58 PM**

Edmonton sure loves to do themes. Here's another one.

The potential of their historic Molson brewery site was wasted on a strip mall with fake smoke stacks. I commend them for at least using actual brick and not brown stucco. I know how much they love stucco in Edmonton.

stevanford1 · #**2151** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

That looks like It's a Small World.

The potential of their historic Molson brewery site was wasted on a strip mall with fake smoke stacks.

Those smoke stacks just take it to the next level of bad.

stevanford1 · #**2152** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 5:02 PM**

Oliver Square is another ridiculous strip mall in Edmonton.

MolsonExport · #**2153** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Montreal's cheese grater has grown on me.

yes. I don't find it ugly at all.

MolsonExport · #**2154** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 5:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Get a load of this faux European mall in Edmonton.

Wholly fuck, that is bad.

Reminds me of the disastrous "Fantasy Garden World" of Richmond, BC that rotted for decades

stevanford1 · #**2155** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Wholly fuck, that is bad.

Reminds me of the disastrous "Fantasy Garden World" of Richmond, BC that rotted for decades

It always reminded me of the condos near Blue Mountain.

stevanford1 · #**2156** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 5:49 PM**

Speaking of Collingwood that place is a goldmine.

Proof Sheet · #**2157** Posted **Mar 6, 2019, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by niwell

I miss the Constellation Hotel - it was an iconic landmark for the area and way better (architecturally) than the vast majority of cookie-cutter hotels in the area. It seemed to sit as an empty hulk for quite some time.

In the summer of 1980 my family was scheduled to fly to the UK for a vacation/see family etc. The flight was supposed to go at night, we got to the airport and only then did they tell us the flight was delayed until the next morning. We headed home and showed up the next morning and they had 'just found out' that the plane was delayed until the evening (now 24 hour delay).

They put us up in a hotel for the daytime and it was the Constellation. Even then it was a tired hotel.