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Old Posted Nov 5, 2018, 4:34 PM
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I had the pleasure of being in Calgary when the Bowfort Towers had just been unveiled, and drove by to see them. For the one brief second you can actually see them from a car. To me the ugliest things about it are:

-The City's insistence in putting Public Art at the side of major highways as part of major infrastructure projects. Put the money aside and do something in a park. Landscaping is fine along a highway.

-The overwrought reaction in the public sphere as a result of the towers. The rhetoric had basically devolved into "art is for downtown elite losers who want to suck taxpayers money!!!!".

Other than that, yeah, the towers themselves are kinda ugly. At best they are horribly misplaced.

Well when taxpayers see the price tag on art like the Blue "c*k" ring you can see why they get a bit over zealous when it comes to how public art is managed.
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The intent of the artist had nothing to do with funerary scaffolds. It was to display a type of stone unique to Alberta. Funny enough they cited the detail in the stone which no one driving by will ever see.
Wait...are you saying that that's not just construction? That's supposed to be art? I thought public art was supposed to beautify the area. That definitely does not achieve that goal.
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I'm unsure about it. The clash is so big.
That's what makes it interesting, surely.
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This is when you're full of shit and try too hard to be 'urban'.

By the way this was a redevelopment in Winnipeg.
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Old Posted Nov 10, 2018, 2:55 AM
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Putain de merde, Someone played Tetris a little too much as a kid...
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Putain de merde, Someone played Tetris a little too much as a kid...
Or, it's sort of a whimsical take on Marxist architecture.
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École secondaire catholique Thériault here in Timmins.

It was originally brown brick and opened in 1972. The brick crumbled and the school's exterior was renovated in the 1990s. It has the nickname "Legoland."

A lot of people here were quite shocked by the chosen design.

For the longest time, it has been the largest francophone high school enrollment-wise in Ontario although there is a school in Ottawa that is close and may now have more students.


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We're doing the same shit here.

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Oh god, that's grotesque. It looks like some strange 50's utopian suburban architecture made by someone who didn't want to conform to the architecture of the time...with some revisions made by someone who wanted to make it a bit more "modern" (WTF are those bars above the windows, they look awful)
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We're poor so we get the cheapest architecture firms that design your strip malls and ask them to design schools, government buildings, etc. Then we tell them hey you need to add colourful clapboard like this... and hand them a picture of the rowhouse districts... and this is what they all come up with, independently of each other. It's like the evolution of eyes. And they are SO proud of themselves. And to be honest they probably win awards for it at their STRIP MALLS ONTARIO EXPO 2019 conferences.

I would bet a KIDNEY that you dig into everyone involved with that Timmins school and our province was somehow involved.
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Ça ne donne pas trop le goût de se lever le matin pour aller à l'école
Il y a toujours pire.

À Orléans, en banlieue est d'Ottawa:

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-ottawa-menace
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Il y a toujours pire.

À Orléans, en banlieue est d'Ottawa:

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle...-ottawa-menace
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Old Posted Nov 12, 2018, 10:21 PM
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We're poor so we get the cheapest architecture firms that design your strip malls and ask them to design schools, government buildings, etc. Then we tell them hey you need to add colourful clapboard like this... and hand them a picture of the rowhouse districts... and this is what they all come up with, independently of each other. It's like the evolution of eyes. And they are SO proud of themselves. And to be honest they probably win awards for it at their STRIP MALLS ONTARIO EXPO 2019 conferences.

I would bet a KIDNEY that you dig into everyone involved with that Timmins school and our province was somehow involved.
I laughed at what you wrote. I was going to mention that an architect who designed many of the buildings here is Roch Belair. He was based in Timmins for the longest time and now lives in Sudbury but still designs most projects here and also many elsewhere in Northern Ontario. Some of his designs are hideous. And if the institution being built is associated with anything francophone then he ALWAYS gets selected to design it as he is Franco-Ontarian. (schools, caisse-populaire, cultural centre, social services, etc.) His trademark is having triangular peaks (and sometimes weird angle peaks) on his buildings. I might feature some of his ugly designs on here. I'm pretty certain that he did the redesign of the school I posted....

BUT....

I researched a bit and found out that his company merged with a number of architectural companies in 2014 from different provinces to become Architecture 49. And one of those companies that was part of the merger was AE Consultants based in St. John's NL!!!

So SHH, I think you are correct!

https://www.northernontariobusiness....al-firm-370479

http://architecture49.com/

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I guess this house in the Shwa aka Oshawa was once a bungalow and then converted into two storey multi res?





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I think it used to be a trailer but then it really let itself go.
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You might be on to something...
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Reclad it with better materials, maybe fix up that second floor side entrance, and I will unapologetically endorse that. In the meantime, wow...
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I submit this beast I saw almost 2 weeks ago. It's so strange. Like three townhouse with no architectural direction crammed in behind a parking lot on Dundas Street West.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.64991...7i16384!8i8192
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Since I mentioned architect Roch Belair, I will start by posting a link to his former home. You can see the triangular peaks in it which he uses in almost everything he designs. He actually invited My Dad and me into his house back when I was young as my Dad knew him. It did have a really cool studio inside. Interesting for sure but many people here find it ugly.

Some of his few designs that don't have the peaks are actually quite nice in my opinion.


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