Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 127

vid · #**2521** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:19 AM**

Not quite the same as this, but close enough:

https://www.wayfair.ca/decor-pillows...001059003.html

They're lamps!

stevanford1 · #**2522** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 11:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Not quite the same as this, but close enough:

https://www.wayfair.ca/decor-pillows...001059003.html

They're lamps!

Dear god that’s tacky! Reminds me of these “rococo beds” that went up for auction as while back.

The statues contain the souls of the poor folks who dared to sleep in them!

esquire · #**2523** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Winnipeg’s mac and cheese coloured Clarion Hotel is quite ugly.

What makes this even worse is the fact that it was originally built as an elegant mid-century modern office building before it was reclad sometime in the early 2000s.

HomeInMyShoes · #**2524** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:14 PM**

^That's how that Venetian-esque seniors home in Regina started as well. Mid-century office/industrial and then they did, I won't post it again here.

esquire · #**2525** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:21 PM**

I didn't know that... any before pictures?

It is bloody hard to find a picture of the Clarion in its pre-recladding state, but here's what I was able to dig up:

stevanford1 · #**2526** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:40 PM**

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I didn't know that... any before pictures?

It is bloody hard to find a picture of the Clarion in its pre-recladding state, but here's what I was able to dig up:

Holy shit, that’s downright criminal, puts the Clarion into Winnipeg’s hall of infamy for me.

stevanford1 · #**2527** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^That's how that Venetian-esque seniors home in Regina started as well. Mid-century office/industrial and then they did, I won't post it again here.

And that puts it in the nationwide hall of infamy for me, it was already in my personal top twenty worst in Canada. Now it’s in my top ten

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stevanford1 · #**2528** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 3:52 PM**

The reclads are just as bad as the “facadism” on Toronto’s One Bedford.

O-tacular · #**2529** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 5:22 PM**

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Sure, the exterior also ain't a thing of beauty!
https://calgaryhomes.ca/listing/c419...berta-t3l-2n6/

The link won't work. Could you post a picture?

stevanford1 · #**2530** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 7:58 PM**

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The link won't work. Could you post a picture?

It appears to have been sold

but I could find this pic of the exterior, it’s in BearsPaw.

stevanford1 · #**2531** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 9:13 PM**

The horned menace in Etobicoke

O-tacular · #**2532** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 10:11 PM**

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It appears to have been sold

but I could find this pic of the exterior, it’s in BearsPaw.

That explains it. Bears Paw is McMansionland on drugs.

O-tacular · #**2533** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 10:22 PM**

This is so horrific. My only solace is that they (the property owner) never got the chance to build balls on either side of the Calgary tower. Probably the only good thing to come from this recession.

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Calgary's One Palliser.... basically just a botched abortion smeared on a dumpster fire.

stevanford1 · #**2534** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 11:22 PM**

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That explains it. Bears Paw is McMansionland on drugs.

Yes it most certainly is, the Ontario equivalent is Brampton.

stevanford1 · #**2535** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 1:20 PM**

There’s a castle in Nova Scotia
https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurenstrap...rry#.heOVG2moO

stevanford1 · #**2536** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

This is so horrific. My only solace is that they (the property owner) never got the chance to build balls on either side of the Calgary tower. Probably the only good thing to come from this recession.

I already wasn’t the biggest One Paliser fan but I could see the appeal, this is horrendous.

LeftCoaster · #**2537** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Yes it most certainly is, the Ontario equivalent is Brampton.

In fairness those aren't McMansions, they are actual mansions.

Still not to my taste mind you.

O-tacular · #**2538** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 5:25 PM**

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In fairness those aren't McMansions, they are actual mansions.

Still not to my taste mind you.

Yes, the level of detail and overall shape is much more complex than a big box McMansion.

kwoldtimer · #**2539** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 5:31 PM**

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In fairness those aren't McMansions, they are actual mansions.

Still not to my taste mind you.

With better exterior cladding and a few design tweaks, the first one wouldn't be particularly ugly, just rather bloated.

LeftCoaster · #**2540** Posted **Apr 17, 2019, 5:45 PM**

There's nothing particularly wrong with the first one if that's your thing, it just isn't mine. I find houses like that, and their related wasteful estates, incredibly garish.