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

[megadude]

Not ugly, but you would think this street was zoned for offices if just going on this one house in Cote Saint Luc, Montreal. The whole street makes for interesting architecture.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4806...7i16384!8i8192

Would these be considered modernist? Basically the whole street.

But if we are looking for ugly, let me introduce you to this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4800...7i16384!8i8192

[MolsonExport]

weird mixture of styles on that CSL street.

[megadude]

I won't say this house in Hamilton area on the lake is ugly, but it kind of seems like a cheap South Beach knockoff. Basically those low rise apartment complexes you would find there. Except most of those have some extra design features like rounding on the corners or some accent pieces to liven up the design. This is basically one of the most no frills complexes you'd find there.

[esquire]

Interesting house. For some reason I get kind of a Japanese vibe from it, although it's still very much a North American building... I'd be curious to see what it looked like inside.

[megadude]

Originally Posted by esquire

Interesting house. For some reason I get kind of a Japanese vibe from it, although it's still very much a North American building... I'd be curious to see what it looked like inside.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by megadude

I won't say this house in Hamilton area on the lake is ugly

Is this in Stoney Creek, or Burlington? Grimsby??

Lots of "mistakes by the lake" in all three. This one wouldn't be so bad if it incorporated more greenery.

Found it: 51 Windemere Road, Stoney Creek

[rousseau]

That strip of land between the QEW and the lake east of Stoney Creek is just about the very last place on earth I'd want to live. I'm still amazed that there was a market for all those subdivisions. How did they sell it?

Hey folks! Do you like flat, featureless topography? Harsh shorelines without sandy beaches? Isolated and unwalkable residential areas featuring either drab sidesplits with vinyl siding from the sixties or contemporary townhouses combining none of the space advantages of suburban living with none of the charm of the 19th century neighbourhoods they fail so miserably to emulate?

More importantly, do you crave the constant background thrum of six lanes of high-speed traffic on a highway hemming you in from the rest of civilization so that your only escape is via said highway or something called "service roads" running parallel to it that were initially established to service all of the nearby industrial lands?

Well then, have we got the place for you!



https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.21103...8i8192!5m1!1e4

[megadude]

I'm not from the area so who knows, but anytime I drive that stretch from the lift bridge through to just before Port Dalhousie, I don't get that feeling of super desireable despite the extreme close proximity to the lake. And I think that is reflected in the prices. Compared to other areas, it feels like the houses there are surprisingly not as expensive as you'd think.

I get the feeling that Dalhousie and NOTL and Ancaster and places up into the Escarpment and wine country are seen as more desireable and are more expensive. And Hamilton Beaches area actually has the beach, but ya, highway almost on top of you and smelly industrial just beyond it.

[esquire]

That house on Windermere looks really nice on the inside... love the view.

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by rousseau

That strip of land between the QEW and the lake east of Stoney Creek is just about the very last place on earth I'd want to live. I'm still amazed that there was a market for all those subdivisions. How did they sell it?

Hey folks! Do you like flat, featureless topography? Harsh shorelines without sandy beaches? Isolated and unwalkable residential areas featuring either drab sidesplits with vinyl siding from the sixties or contemporary townhouses combining none of the space advantages of suburban living with none of the charm of the 19th century neighbourhoods they fail so miserably to emulate?

More importantly, do you crave the constant background thrum of six lanes of high-speed traffic on a highway hemming you in from the rest of civilization so that your only escape is via said highway or something called "service roads" running parallel to it that were initially established to service all of the nearby industrial lands?

Well then, have we got the place for you!



https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.21103...8i8192!5m1!1e4

Are those towers for an AM radio station?

[theman23]

Originally Posted by megadude

I'm not from the area so who knows, but anytime I drive that stretch from the lift bridge through to just before Port Dalhousie, I don't get that feeling of super desireable despite the extreme close proximity to the lake. And I think that is reflected in the prices. Compared to other areas, it feels like the houses there are surprisingly not as expensive as you'd think.

I get the feeling that Dalhousie and NOTL and Ancaster and places up into the Escarpment and wine country are seen as more desireable and are more expensive. And Hamilton Beaches area actually has the beach, but ya, highway almost on top of you and smelly industrial just beyond it.

Nvm misread your post.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by rousseau

That strip of land between the QEW and the lake east of Stoney Creek is just about the very last place on earth I'd want to live. I'm still amazed that there was a market for all those subdivisions. How did they sell it?

Hey folks! Do you like flat, featureless topography? Harsh shorelines without sandy beaches? Isolated and unwalkable residential areas featuring either drab sidesplits with vinyl siding from the sixties or contemporary townhouses combining none of the space advantages of suburban living with none of the charm of the 19th century neighbourhoods they fail so miserably to emulate?

More importantly, do you crave the constant background thrum of six lanes of high-speed traffic on a highway hemming you in from the rest of civilization so that your only escape is via said highway or something called "service roads" running parallel to it that were initially established to service all of the nearby industrial lands?

Well then, have we got the place for you!



https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.21103...8i8192!5m1!1e4

There is so much soul-suckingness along the major highways, but the most soul-sucking of all has to be the SFH and low-rise/row houses, and semi-detached you see fronting or backing onto the 401/QEW. How awful it must be to hear the insane rush of traffic all hours of the day, every day. The view is appalling, especially during the fugly period from Nov-Apr when the sky is almost always grey, when what little foliage exists has been denuded of leaves, and there are usually shit globs of blackened snow crusting the edges of the roads. Fucking grim.

[megadude]

There would have to a significant discount on a house for me to buy one that backs onto a highway. Even then I'd be super annoyed. There's ambient noise like when I'm in my backyard on a quiet evening and I can hear the hum of the QEW or GO train 1.5km away as the crow flies. Not something you notice in the daytime but when everything goes quiet in the evening, if you pay attention, you can hear it. This I don't mind. I actually prefer some kind of noise as opposed to when I'm up north and can hear nothing at night. But don't want a level of noise where I can't sleep like when I spent two weeks at my cousin's brownstone apt. in Manhattan facing the street. The windows were so paper thin it was like as if they were open. And in Manhattan, garbage and utility trucks are working 24/7.

At 401 and Yonge, super expensive and fancy houses, and many back onto the 401. Not as close as other examples mentioned, but the 401 is clearly visible when you're upstairs, and lord knows what it's like to be using your backyard or have your window open.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7563.../data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7554...7i16384!8i8192

One of these houses is actually for sale for $3.9m right now.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by megadude

There would have to a significant discount on a house for me to buy one that backs onto a highway. Even then I'd be super annoyed. There's ambient noise like when I'm in my backyard on a quiet evening and I can hear the hum of the QEW or GO train 1.5km away as the crow flies. Not something you notice in the daytime but when everything goes quiet in the evening, if you pay attention, you can hear it. This I don't mind. I actually prefer some kind of noise as opposed to when I'm up north and can hear nothing at night. But don't want a level of noise where I can't sleep like when I spent two weeks at my cousin's brownstone apt. in Manhattan facing the street. The windows were so paper thin it was like as if they were open. And in Manhattan, garbage and utility trucks are working 24/7.

At 401 and Yonge, super expensive and fancy houses, and many back onto the 401. Not as close as other examples mentioned, but the 401 is clearly visible when you're upstairs, and lord knows what it's like to be using your backyard or have your window open.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7563.../data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7554...7i16384!8i8192

One of these houses is actually for sale for $3.9m right now.

awful. you probably need megaphones to communicate with each other when seated in the backyard.

[Proof Sheet]

https://twitter.com/CheapoCrappy/sta...476480/photo/1

Now that's what I called fugly

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

https://twitter.com/CheapoCrappy/sta...476480/photo/1

Now that's what I called fugly

Lord almighty that is fugly as sin. Imagine what kind of gal would be impressed by the mounted hunting heads...in the friggin bedroom. Trumpeteer for sure.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Lord almighty that is fugly as sin. Imagine what kind of gal would be impressed by the mounted hunting heads...in the friggin bedroom. Trumpeteer for sure.

https://twitter.com/CheapoCrappy/sta...715781/photo/4

Wow..this is pure fugly

[MolsonExport]

TaCkY and fUgLy

[xzmattzx]

Originally Posted by megadude

Not ugly, but you would think this street was zoned for offices if just going on this one house in Cote Saint Luc, Montreal. The whole street makes for interesting architecture.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4806...7i16384!8i8192

Would these be considered modernist? Basically the whole street.

But if we are looking for ugly, let me introduce you to this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4800...7i16384!8i8192

Wow. Those two places immediately reminded me of some of the Pike Creek areas in suburban Wilmington, Delaware. Very late modernist cookie-cutter residential for the win!

https://www.google.ca/maps/@39.73607...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.ca/maps/@39.75068...7i16384!8i8192

[jamincan]

Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

https://twitter.com/CheapoCrappy/sta...715781/photo/4

Wow..this is pure fugly

Ignoring the horrible taste inside, the exterior finish is baffling. It looks like they were going a stucco over brick effect with the stucco wearing away to show the brick. Except that instead we have stone, and I guess the stone is eroding away to show the brick? Weird.