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

[Acajack]

Borrowing from the Skyline thread, perhaps the Edmonton library people were trying to evoke the materials of the upper reaches of the Chrysler Building?

[AuxTown]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Borrowing from the Skyline thread, perhaps the Edmonton library people were trying to evoke the materials of the upper reaches of the Chrysler Building?

I think maybe more the upper reaches of the Canadian Tire Centre....



To this day I have no idea why they chose orange for those metal panels!

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Kroegerish (adjective): offensive to the sight and/or ears; frightful or hideous; utterly lacking artistic value or beauty; bereft of redeeming features; see also: Kroeger, Chad; Nickelback.



arsehole

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[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by AuxTown

I think maybe more the upper reaches of the Canadian Tire Centre....



To this day I have no idea why they chose orange for those metal panels!

Architect:

sandymctire

[davee930]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Architect:

sandymctire

[MolsonExport]

what is the point of the restraining fence on the top of the Palladium, Corell-Centre, Scrotumbank Place, Crappy Tire Arena? The icing on the dog turd?

[MolsonExport]

Double your fugliness: http://www.canadiantirecentre.com/ne...n-feb-17-2015/

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

what is the point of the restraining fence on the top of the Palladium, Corell-Centre, Scrotumbank Place, Crappy Tire Arena? The icing on the dog turd?

Bars for the Eugene Melnyk containment cage? We certainly don't want him escaping Ottawa and infecting some other community.

[MolsonExport]

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and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPshNwaXJLs

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

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Good one...How you remind me makes me run for the off switch. A seamless medley of Nickelcrud without a person realizing it is a medley.

In my mind, you could do a similar seamless long song of most AC/DC or Bryan Adams or Celine Dion songs.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

what is the point of the restraining fence on the top of the Palladium, Corell-Centre, Scrotumbank Place, Crappy Tire Arena? The icing on the dog turd?

Architectural ‘flair’?

[davee930]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Good one...How you remind me makes me run for the off switch. A seamless medley of Nickelcrud without a person realizing it is a medley.

In my mind, you could do a similar seamless long song of most AC/DC or Bryan Adams or Celine Dion songs.

Yess. Bryan Adams sucks!!!! Summer of 69, how about just shut the fuck up?

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Borrowing from the Skyline thread, perhaps the Edmonton library people were trying to evoke the materials of the upper reaches of the Chrysler Building?

It looks like a Battlestar crash landed and then the city was like "oh let's put a front door on and throw some books in"... nothing of it is reminiscent of the Chrysler Building in anyones wildest fever dreams.

This was the original proposal...




Then it devolved to this...




Then further devolved to this...




And the end product is somehow incomparably worse...

[esquire]

Edmonton would have been 1000% better off simply restoring the Milner to its original mid-century design (i.e. yanking out the shit they attached to it in the 90s and giving it a thorough overhaul), and then focusing on updating the interior to improve its overall functionality.

The thought of spending good money on such an abysmal outcome is harrowing. I don't like to pile on buildings but holy cow, who on earth thought that was a good idea?

[AuxTown]

The first clue should have been when early renderings show a bunch of wavy lines that by no means make up an actual building. Unless they were going to do a curved glass structure (a la Shaw Centre in Ottawa) it was always going to slowly deteriorate into crap.


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[MolsonExport]

That Edmonton podium library thingy....terrible execution. Looks the way that Kroeger sounds. Like shit.

[davee930]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

That Edmonton podium library thingy....terrible execution. Looks the way that Kroeger sounds. Like shit.

Ah man please keep up the kroeger bashing (no I'm not going to dignify him by capitalizing his name).

Look at the formulaic shit they decided to make that building into. Just like dickelhack

Just made that up BTW

[MolsonExport]

3 douchebeards and one fallen hitlerstache.

Nickelback's Music Used as Cruel and Unusual Punishment by Police

Rather than issuing a warrant against Nickelback, cops from the band's home and native land opted to use 2001's Silver Side Up as punishment against anyone busted for impaired driving. Police in Kensington, PEI, implemented the scare tactic earlier this year — threatening drunk drivers with a pristine cassette copy of the 2001 album that would be unwrapped and played aloud to anyone who exceeded the legal limit.

The whole thing ended with the police officer in charge of the joke issuing an apology to the band, but we're guessing the roads stayed pretty safe up until then.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/the_...istory_of_hate



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[EasternFreeway]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Three more Hats planned here as well.

Our new/prominent/flagship/landmark library opens soon.

It looks like one of these nordic building with cheap metal sheet siding

[MolsonExport]

Looks like something from Nunavut. Or the moon.