Ugly Canada 2 (Only architecture, planning and design faux pas) - Page 231

MolsonExport · #**4601** Posted **May 6, 2021, 5:36 PM**

Ottawa is the most mid-height and blue-boxy downtown in Canada. That is how I identify it.

O-tacular · #**4602** Posted **May 7, 2021, 3:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Ottawa is the most mid-height and blue-boxy downtown in Canada. That is how I identify it.

Yes. Also a lot of bad pomo it seems.

Metro-One · #**4603** Posted **May 7, 2021, 6:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I find Ottawa less ugly and more banal. It’s the only major Canadian city that I couldn’t identify based on it’s CBD when excluding parliament hill and the Chateau / National Art Gallery. The office and condo buildings just seem like a reflection of nameless bureaucrats lol!

I get what your saying. If it’s just a pic of the CBD of Ottawa my first reaction is almost always “where is that?”

For me that has almost never happened with a pic of Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, etc... even with their most prominent landmarks not in a shot.

J.OT13 · #**4604** Posted **May 7, 2021, 1:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Why is the blank wall on those identical twins a different height on each? Drives my OCD crazy!

I don't think contraction is quite complete. I assume the blank walls should be identical within the next few weeks.

biguc · #**4605** Posted **May 7, 2021, 2:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Ottawa is the most mid-height and blue-boxy downtown in Canada. That is how I identify it.

Halifax (shorter Montreal) without water or a hill.

kool maudit · #**4606** Posted **May 7, 2021, 2:11 PM**

Ottawa has a dull spirit and it somehow subtly alters one's perceptions of even the physical city (which is also dull).

This mysterious effect works in photos even.

MonctonRad · #**4607** Posted **May 7, 2021, 2:30 PM**

Ottawa, the great grey surrogate penal colony for equally grey and dull federal bureaucrats...…….

esquire · #**4608** Posted **May 8, 2021, 2:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

This is a really weird one here in Winnipeg.. looks more like a small town hospital than a home.

http://www.sfdhome.ca/our-masterpiece/
66 Nihal Bay

I know that house, I have friends who live a stone's throw away in Amber Trails (NW Winnipeg). It's weird that someone jammed such a big house onto such a small lot backing into a fairly busy street. It's very prominent when you go by which is normally the opposite of what people building big houses are looking for.

That said, that area has a very large Indo-Canadian population with multi-generational households. I strongly suspect that's who that house was built for.

Harley613 · #**4609** Posted **May 8, 2021, 3:47 PM**

I'm pretty sure these buildings in Ottawa win the 'Ugly Canada' thread

Photo_6553806_DJI_206_jpg_4815758_0_2021429163158_photo_original by harley613, on Flickr

MonctonRad · #**4610** Posted **May 8, 2021, 4:13 PM**

My God - that place is the epitome of a vertical slum!!!!

Why would city planning ever approve such a hideous (and quite literal) third world development! It looks like it belongs in suburban Mumbai!

MolsonExport · #**4611** Posted **May 8, 2021, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

I'm pretty sure these buildings in Ottawa win the 'Ugly Canada' thread

Photo_6553806_DJI_206_jpg_4815758_0_2021429163158_photo_original by harley613, on Flickr

There can be only one winner of the "ugly canada" thread.

It is there, looming ominously in the background

otacular

HomeInMyShoes · #**4612** Posted **May 8, 2021, 4:56 PM**

They are brutalist treasures.

I tried really hard to type that with a straight face, but I've been laughing for five minutes now.

Innsertnamehere · #**4613** Posted **May 8, 2021, 5:04 PM**

As someone who is generally a huge fan of brutalism (Boston City Hall should be considered a nationally significant heritage structure IMO), burn it with fire. Quickly.

rousseau · #**4614** Posted **May 8, 2021, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I know that house, I have friends who live a stone's throw away in Amber Trails (NW Winnipeg). It's weird that someone jammed such a big house onto such a small lot backing into a fairly busy street. It's very prominent when you go by which is normally the opposite of what people building big houses are looking for.

That said, that area has a very large Indo-Canadian population with multi-generational households. I strongly suspect that's who that house was built for.

People want to live in the northwest? I always thought that was no-mans-land, that any money in Winnipeg naturally drifted to just south of the Assiniboine and over toward Tuxedo.

megadude · #**4615** Posted **May 8, 2021, 9:04 PM**

My god. How have those two not been posted here before? Yeah, what Moncton said. I would have placed those in another country like that gem in Hamilton that looks like a council estate in Manchester.

quall · #**4616** Posted **May 8, 2021, 10:40 PM**

Debated posting this on the soul-sucking thread but it looks to be buried. Felt it also belonged here. This is a real, honest-to-god "leading-edge" affordable seniors housing project near downtown Sudbury, Ontario. Shovels in the ground as early as September:

The Sudbury Star

The previous render at least had some colour:

Sudbury.com

Could this be Clockzilla's new archnemesis?

Chadillaccc · #**4617** Posted **May 8, 2021, 11:30 PM**

Jesus… they're both heinous… with a capital "einous"

Even worse, at 17 storeys they'll be the tallest buildings in the city.

O-tacular · #**4618** Posted **May 8, 2021, 11:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by quall

Debated posting this on the soul-sucking thread but it looks to be buried. Felt it also belonged here. This is a real, honest-to-god "leading-edge" affordable seniors housing project near downtown Sudbury, Ontario. Shovels in the ground as early as September:

The Sudbury Star

The previous render at least had some colour:

Sudbury.com

Could this be Clockzilla's new archnemesis?

I didn’t think it was possible but that is more of a depressing seniors prison than Clockzilla. How on earth is that allowed? Does Surbury have no design standards whatsoever? That looks like a Soylent Green processing facility. A literal warehouse for the aged.

O-tacular · #**4619** Posted **May 8, 2021, 11:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

There can be only one winner of the "ugly canada" thread.

It is there, looming ominously in the background

otacular

Lol! The Ottawa fugly twins may not steal the crown but the new Sudbury seniors prisons might

O-tacular · #**4620** Posted **May 8, 2021, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

I'm pretty sure these buildings in Ottawa win the 'Ugly Canada' thread

Photo_6553806_DJI_206_jpg_4815758_0_2021429163158_photo_original by harley613, on Flickr

That is one of the grimmest and ugliest urban settings seen in this thread in years. Those balconies remind me of the toilets projecting off the walls of medieval castles.