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

[lio45]

Most of that (Gresto's post) describes Trudeau as well, and yet I've been defending that guy too against abusive criticism on this forum, to the point I've been called a reliable LPC voter by an Albertan with JTDS.

A politician can be an idiot and simultaneously get at least a few things right.
A politician can be an idiot and yet the country may still be a pleasant place to live in.

[kool maudit]

(I hope that political upheavals can cause enough changes in the Western ruling class' composition and direction to avoid violence, btw.)

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

(I hope that political upheavals can cause enough changes in the Western ruling class' composition and direction to avoid violence, btw.)

I hold little hope that the U.S. won’t devolve into some form of violence when Dump is finally flushed. Look no further than his threat about bikers and the police and military being in his corner.

However, the reaction to Trump has definitely inspired a new generation of activists and minorities to seek political office.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

I hold little hope that the U.S. won’t devolve into some form of violence when Dump is finally flushed. Look no further than his threat about bikers and the police and military being in his corner.

However, the reaction to Trump has definitely inspired a new generation of activists and minorities to seek political office.

The US is just one country and Trump is a symptom, not a new direction. The generational Third Way consensus is breaking down amidst the economic and cultural dislocations it has caused via its admitted dynamism, and the process is throwing up weird monsters and anomalies. I agree with you about the latter, though, and that's why I think AOC is a positive sign. The Democrats need to be cracked open as the GOP was. The most depressing thing about the 2016 US election was not Trump's victory; it was that, prior to him, the US political class offered up a dynastic Clinton/Bush race and thought it would hold. After Iraq. After Libya. Such actions deserve punishment.

[vid]

Let us all send thanks and condolences to Le Travailleur for his contribution to this website. Truly, a priceless contribution which will be cherished, always.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by vid

Let us all send thanks and condolences to Le Travailleur for his contribution to this website. Truly, a priceless contribution which will be cherished, always.

How has it taken so long for the overlord of Laval to get a diagram?!

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

How has it taken so long for the overlord of Laval to get a diagram?!

Until He got paid ?

[stevanford1]

Bohemian Embassy gets a lot of hate. Personally I don’t find it to bad but maybe some of you guys will hate it.

Urbantoronto: Bohemian Embassy Proposal


Rentitfurnished: Bohemian Embassy

[stevanford1]

This Monastery in Calgary is atrociously fugly.


Wtf is with the tiny stone building attached to it?

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

This Monastery in Calgary is atrociously fugly.


Wtf is with the tiny stone building attached to it?

The hideous mustard coloured stucco part is an addition to the original stone structure. The colours and materials they ended up using are awful. I think they ran out of money or something because iirc the rendering was much more attractive.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

The hideous mustard coloured stucco part is an addition to the original stone structure. The colours and materials they ended up using are awful. I think they ran out of money or something because iirc the rendering was much more attractive. Who knew Calgary had enough Buddhists to build something this large though?

Yeah the rendering looked quite nice.

[stevanford1]

Right down the street from that there’s this Fairfield Inn.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Right down the street from that there’s this Fairfield Inn.

Not quite down the street. One is in the Beltline and the other is in the west end of DT. That is a conversion of a former commie block apartment complex. Not great, but they were limited by the existing structure. The colours are really bad though.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Not quite down the street. One is in the Beltline and the other is in the west end of DT. That is a conversion of a former commie block apartment complex. Not great, but they were limited by the existing structure. The colours are really bad though.

Ah I see.

[stevanford1]

Not in Canada but this gem is too good for one ugly thread.

[SignalHillHiker]

Good luck.



There aren't many places I've been as soul-suckingly awful as towns in the interior of Newfoundland. Most are hideous and slowly dying - and even the booming ones, like Clarenville, are a big box area surrounded by bungalow subdivisions. And that's it. Even the public buildings are tin or vinyl.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Bohemian Embassy gets a lot of hate. Personally I don’t find it to bad but maybe some of you guys will hate it.

Urbantoronto: Bohemian Embassy Proposal


Rentitfurnished: Bohemian Embassy

I'm not seeing a problem.

[SignalHillHiker]

Further to my previous post... a little more of Main Street, in the Windsor half of Grand Falls-Windsor:







There is one nice building in the town - the Town Hall, but that's in the Grand Falls half:

[MonctonRad]

No worse than many Prairie small towns

[esquire]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

No worse than many Prairie small towns

The vernacular is different but the general idea is roughly the same. A bunch of plain, super-utilitarian wood or metal-sided buildings with maybe one or if you're lucky, two stately, somewhat elegant stone or brick buildings.