Shacks by the Stacks: The Great Canadian Shacks in the City Thread - Page 3

kool maudit · #41 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:17 PM**

Niagara Falls:

https://goo.gl/maps/YVbZ7yKPshzqZojYA

someone123 · #42 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:24 PM**

Moncton:

https://www.google.com/maps/@46.0896...7i13312!8i6656

Saint John. This one isn't a shack but it's unusual. An old wooden house preserved next to an office tower:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2748...7i13312!8i6656

(A bunch of wooden rowhouses demolished there too with no replacement...)

niwell · #43 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:33 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonny24

Man, how are you guys defining "shack"? To me it seems at least 50% of these are too substantial to be called a shack.

If we're talking about housing I'd personally define shack as an informal dwelling constructed outside of the regulatory/permitting system. This doesn't really exist in Canada anymore outside of some very extreme cases, though many of the posted images certainly began their life in this way before being gradually updated.

TorontoDrew · #44 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:53 PM**

60 Queen Street East in Toronto. thank god it's days are numbered.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6531...7i16384!8i8192

someone123 · #45 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

60 Queen Street East in Toronto. thank god it's days are numbered.

I like buildings like that more than the typical large condo tower than has a long street frontage with little variation.

TorontoDrew · #46 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 6:58 PM**

Well you will be glad or annoyed to know it will be attached to the podium of the new tower. I'm curious to see what's under all that horrible wood.

posted on urbantoronto.ca

isaidso · #47 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 8:10 PM**

Glad as modern architecture is usually far too cold/sterile. It desperately needs buildings with colour, texture, embellishment to carry the block. Renovate the old and you end up with the best of both.

lio45 · #48 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 8:13 PM**

That yellow is a bit too much though. Would work in St. John's or a Norwegian fishing village, but not (IMO) on that type of building.

TorontoDrew · #49 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 8:44 PM**

Ya, ever since I've noticed that building it's bothered me. It seems very old, withered, and neglected. It looks like it was built on a budget 150 years ago. It's so out of place near the core. I'm hoping even though it will most likely be fecaded to see something nice under that yellow wood.

here is one of the oldest pics anybody could find of it from the late 60's. I'm going to guess it's a red brick building under years of horrible cover ups. And yes that old church was demolished for a parking lot.

source: https://urbantoronto.ca

kwoldtimer · #50 Posted **Sep 4, 2020, 9:26 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Well you will be glad or annoyed to know it will be attached to the podium of the new tower. I'm curious to see what's under all that horrible wood.

posted on urbantoronto.ca

Most likely red brick, no?

itom 987 · #51 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 12:03 AM**

Tiny forgotten/neglected shacks in the core of any city tend be very old first generation buildings, at least that is true for Edmonton. Here is a shack located in the middle of downtown Edmonton. It will be demolished to make way for a tower soon.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.54150...7i13312!8i6656

As you can see, it is a house hiding behind a building.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.54152.../data=!3m1!1e3

Zoom out and you will see that it is in the very centre of Edmonton's built up area. I believe this is the last house left within the core. There are others but they are by the river valley or near the edge of downtown.

MolsonExport · #52 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 12:08 AM**

One thing that is very interesting about Shanghai, Seoul and other Asian Mega cities (even Tokyo) is that you will find rows of ramshackle shacks nestled within the canyons of skyscrapers and otherwise very modern areas.

Now the shackiest place (if we count cinderblock shacks) that I have yet to visit has to be Lima (Peru).

tinggly

itom 987 · #53 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 12:28 AM**

O-tacular · #54 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by hipster duck

Toronto: Get ready for a shack attack!

Here

Here

Shacks surrounded by condoville

Single shack squeezed between two forlorn commercial properties. Condo towers in distance.

And many more. Toronto is filled with shacks.

Shacks as art:

What is that weird building with stacked cubes next to the freeway in the second link?

esquire · #55 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 1:33 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonny24

Man, how are you guys defining "shack"? To me it seems at least 50% of these are too substantial to be called a shack.

I am using the lio definition which appears to be modest, wood frame/wood clad single family house.

O-tacular · #56 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 1:49 AM**

Here's a shack from Calgary that I actually find cute:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0533...7i13312!8i6656

I'd like to know the history of such a small abode. Much of Bridgeland was built by Italian immigrants and I would be curious to know who the original builder was. Could have been someone just settling here with very little money. I like that it has survived and would be sad to see it redeveloped.

Edit: It's actually 2 for 1 as this slightly larger shack sits directly behind it on a smaller residential street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0527...7i13312!8i6656

Note the preponderance of midrise apartment blocks dominating the area though. Just that weird little slice with two ridiculously small shacks. Densification has occurred gradually and organically and the area is a mixed bag of architectural styles and ages. I find it eclectic and interesting.

O-tacular · #57 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 2:01 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

I am using the lio definition which appears to be modest, wood frame/wood clad single family house.

Would this count by his broad definition minus being residential?

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5093...7i16384!8i8192

lio45 · #58 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 2:36 AM**

TorontoDrew's post gave me another (related) thread idea: Shackiest McDonald's (typically the epitome of standardized-premises chains) in existence.

Current one to beat is at the corner of E. Queen and Church, Toronto.

lio45 · #59 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 2:42 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Ya, ever since I've noticed that building it's bothered me. It seems very old, withered, and neglected. It looks like it was built on a budget 150 years ago. It's so out of place near the core. I'm hoping even though it will most likely be fecaded to see something nice under that yellow wood.

here is one of the oldest pics anybody could find of it from the late 60's. I'm going to guess it's a red brick building under years of horrible cover ups. And yes that old church was demolished for a parking lot.

source: https://urbantoronto.ca

That church looked great. Sad loss. (Any pics of it?)

Also, I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but I just found out that McTamney's is still McTamney's over half a century later!

lio45 · #60 Posted **Sep 5, 2020, 2:47 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

I am using the lio definition which appears to be modest, wood frame/wood clad single family house.

In that case, here's the textbook shack for the purposes of this thread:

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