[Stephen Ave]

No offence Cold, but here is another poll.

This poll is for a project known as 'Oscar'. I'm hoping to send the resuls of this poll to the architect or developer of this project.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/950/oscardigitalrenditionjail2.jpg

[The Chemist]

Looks blandly suburban. Totally poor design for the location. :yuck:

[ExcaliburKid]

Even Edmonton can do better than that

[Bassic Lab]

The street presence is horrible, the tower is meh, and I don't know what the fuck is up with the roof element. Get rid of the roof element and change the podium and it would be atleast okay.

[Stephen Ave]

I don't like this project. The podium doesn't go with the tower portion at all, and the roof element is just plain bad. All three elements of it are pretty sad on it's own, but the three together are terrible.

My opinion of this project :slob:

[Hardhatdan]

Weird looking...

[HomeInMyShoes]

I just threw-up in my mouth a bit. I'll have to vote terrible for this one. It does have greenspace on top of the podium with trees which might give it a partial above terrible.

[murman]

Who's the archi-torturist? That's nothing less than a lifetime of incompetence rolled into one lurid expression.

[Surferguy]

L-a-m-e

[Just Build It]

This has got to be a joke, no? Is there any serious chance that this could get built?

[niwell]

That has got to be one of the WORST podiums ever. I could deal with the wacky roof thingy if the podium was better.

[feepa]

11 floors of mediocrity. This gets its own Poll? Please...

[Riise]

11 floors of mediocrity.

Mediocre? You're being too kind. Eleven floors of a horrendous excuse for architecture!

[Waterlooson]

Not good. :yuck:

[SteveP]

One sad looking building.

If the podium was more modern styled, something along the lines of Nova/Stella and the rooftop piece disappeared it wouldn't actually be that bad.

[Arriviste]

I won't even bother.... it's that bad.

[Blue_Cypress]

Something about having a symmetrical tower centered in the middle of an asymmetrical podium just rubs me the wrong way with some 40-grit.

[bc2mb]

omg, it's like three different design elements all mashed in one. I can't stop laughing at the roof "sail" thing.. talk about a lightning rod. please tell me this isn't in DOWNTOWN Calgary??? :o

[murman]

Is there any chance that this is a practical joke, or else some amateur on the forum slapped this together in photochop and is now too afraid/embarrassed to admit that this was of their doing?

IT'S THAT BAD.

[jeffwhit]

http://www.freebeernet.com/Barfing%20Pumpkin.jpg




who's developing this abortion?

[Xelebes]

Let's just say that I wouldn't choose to move in. Unless of course the price was begging.

[Kevin_foster]

You're really going to send this to the architect?

I think jeffwhit summed up my feelings

[Western Spaghetti]

This is totally laughable. :jester:

Do we know who the architect is? They were overpaid whoever it was.

[skrish]

The sailboat makes a return. Didn't this rendering come out a while ago?

[dubiousmike]

I made two buildings like that in the toilet this morning.

[unibrain]

There is absolutely nothing interesting with that building.

It's so bland... and then they throw on a headpiece. The podium is disproportional to the rest of the tower..

With it's short stumpy size (density limitation due to the size of the site), they should at least do something that spans the width of podium rather than having it set back so much.. Do a mini-boomerrang.. :)

[Habanero]

This is the ugliest stupidest building I've sen in a while.

Are you serious about planning to send the results to the developer?

[m0nkyman]

I wouldn't wish that building on Toronto.:koko:

[Mark Bench]

11 floors of mediocrity. This gets its own Poll? Please...


So why are you the only one so far (and probably the only 1 period) who voted it as a "great looking project"???? Seems strange if you think it's mediocre.

[Rob D]

So why are you the only one so far (and probably the only 1 period) who voted it as a "great looking project"???? Seems strange if you think it's mediocre.

Interesting.....:jester:


http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2682/0000000000000oscarpollnb7.jpg

[Boris2k7]

As it stands, this is one horrifying abortion of a building. And it's sad because even though it is awful as it stands, the building could be saved with even the slightest of changes.

1) Make that podium symmetrical.
2) Get rid of the strips of grass in front of the building. Have enough space for trees and such but otherwise build up as close the curb as possible.
3) For the love of whatever deity you happen to believe in, get rid of that fence!
4) At at least 5 or 6 floors... hell, even double the heigh of the building. It's far enough from the river that shadowing shouldn't be an issue
5) Get rid of the retarded roof element. Having a simple, round cover for the mechanical stuff is better than this.
6) I hope I'm not the only person who sees those balconies on the right actually overlapping the glass?!? And the other side doesn't? What the hell is going on there?

[dubiousmike]

6) I hope I'm not the only person who sees those balconies on the right actually overlapping the glass?!? And the other side doesn't? What the hell is going on there?

Jesus, I didn't notice that.

Must be somebody's first time using AutoCAD.

[m0nkyman]

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/950/oscardigitalrenditionjail2.jpg
1) Make that podium symmetrical.

Nope. That thing is not salveagable as a podium. What the frack is that blue thing above the door? Notice the way that the brick gets bleached once it hits the horizontal strip? There is no detail that doesn't give me pain.
2) Get rid of the strips of grass in front of the building. Have enough space for trees and such but otherwise build up as close the curb as possible.
Or, put in a sidewalk? Picture this puppy in March with no sidewalk.
3) For the love of whatever deity you happen to believe in, get rid of that fence!
Yep. Or build a bigger one to keep the neighbours from burning this thing to the ground.
4) At at least 5 or 6 floors... hell, even double the heigh of the building. It's far enough from the river that shadowing shouldn't be an issue
I have no idea where this is supposed to be situated. I assumed in an industrial park in the suburbs.
5) Get rid of the retarded roof element. Having a simple, round cover for the mechanical stuff is better than this.
The roof element is the only part of this design that is the slightest bit interesting. Start with the roof element and design something that it suits.
6) I hope I'm not the only person who sees those balconies on the right actually overlapping the glass?!? And the other side doesn't? What the hell is going on there?[/QUOTE] I'm guessing piss poor draftsmanship.

[Boris2k7]

^ It's in the west part of Eau Claire, closer to the Bow River but not so close that that height can't be increased...

Here's what the site looks like (the only picture I have at this time):

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1627/dscn1341hg1.jpg

Sorry if anyone notices my cranky mood tonight. I'm still fuming about how incompetent Calgary Transit is, and why I should ever have to stand around (yes, stand, because the bastards won't put more than 3 of those fricken metal benches in the bus shelter, which is BTW the only part of the station that is heated, even though more people are actually down on the platform freezing their asses off when it is cold.) and wait over 40 minutes for a fucking bus? You idiots, perhaps instead of running 4 buses around the entire Deep SW, you could actually make them feeder buses like they are supposed to be and cut the routes in in half while maintaining the same damn coverage, number of buses and drivers, and double the frequency? Grrrrrrrrr... :hell:

But I will leave the rest of that rant to another thread at a different time...

[m0nkyman]

^ It's in the west part of Eau Claire, closer to the Bow River but not so close that that height can't be increased...


:koko: Eau Claire? Can I change my vote to match Feepa's?

Calgary would never ever be able to make fun of mediocre Edmonton architecture if that gets built in Eau Claire!

[Wooster]

http://www.freebeernet.com/Barfing%20Pumpkin.jpg


who's developing this abortion?

That pretty much sums it up.

Stephen Ave. This certainly is worth sending to the developer and architect. Perhaps the planner responsible at city hall, and Druh Farrell the alderman. druh.farrell@calgary.ca

[sync]

fucking awful.

there is no way we can let this thing get built.

when is the protest march?

[Beazley66]

Triple f-
Like a bad paperweight you can by on 14st NYC.
Is this some form of lurid joke?
But, I have to say, I love the entrance............
" ah ha! ho ho... a track in the snow... what are those tracks and where do they go?"

[trueviking]

i love it...the architectural feature on the roof reflects some of the current thinking of santiago calatrava....the trees on the roof are similar to some of the work being produced in vancouver by Richard Henriquez.....the strong classic styling of the plinth (base) refelcts calgary's history, reminding us of when the glenbow reservoir once produced some of the finest architectural sandstone in north america....the canopy over the daringly asymetrical front doors presents a functional and visually strong message of entry.

all in all, my comments would be that the architect is bringing sexy back.

[sync]

Lol

[Champion3]

A friend of mine used to have a dachshund named Oscar... This project kind of suits him.

[The Chemist]

A friend of mine used to have a dachshund named Oscar... This project kind of suits him.

In that it's a real dog? :D

[murman]

Feepa: care to explain yourself?

[bob1954]

What the hell is it? The architect should be castrated!

[AUM]

That is an absolute embarassment on Calgary's architecture. So many are trying so hard to bring a better quality of design and it is work like this that seems to have taken us 10 steps back for the one we have taken forward. I would hope that the urban design review panel pushes for a re-design...or that a community voice of the public can stop this.

[Calalb]

i love it...the architectural feature on the roof reflects some of the current thinking of santiago calatrava....the trees on the roof are similar to some of the work being produced in vancouver by Richard Henriquez.....the strong classic styling of the plinth (base) refelcts calgary's history, reminding us of when the glenbow reservoir once produced some of the finest architectural sandstone in north america....the canopy over the daringly asymetrical front doors presents a functional and visually strong message of entry.

all in all, my comments would be that the architect is bringing sexy back.

Sorry, I don't agree with you. Where is the glenbow reservoir??:)

[mersar]

Sorry, I don't agree with you. Where is the glenbow reservoir??:)

Don't know about a Glenbow Reservoir, but there is a now dry lake just NW of the Springbank airport called Glenbow Lake. (See a map (http://encarta.msn.com/map_701595876/Glenbow_Lake.html))

Getting back to the topic, my only reaction is: YUCK!

[Rob D]

all in all, my comments would be that the architect is bringing sexy back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfwEqRE6-Y

[YYCguys]

Oscar is butt ugly! I agree with Boris on all the points that he brings up! It is an embarassment to one of the nicer areas of the core. In addition, it is short and dumpy with a crazy hat on it's head!

[CMD UW]

The street presence is horrible, the tower is meh, and I don't know what the fuck is up with the roof element. Get rid of the roof element and change the podium and it would be atleast okay.
/\ see Bassic Lab for my response. Emphasize 'f*ck' on the roof element.

[crooked rain]

Bland building, but the mooring station for zepellins at the top will come in particularly useful once we move from an oil based economy to a hydrogen based economy.

[Sacamano]

once we move from an oil based economy to a hydrogen based economy

I guess you haven't seen the Kai Mortensen towers .. ie... the shift is unlikely to occur anytime soon

[dmc]

I like the glass, and other than the tacked on roof element, I think it's not bad. I don't know why everyone is complaining about the podium...it's brick and stone which sure beats stucco, concrete, and spandrel glass.

[trueviking]

Don't know about a Glenbow Reservoir, but there is a now dry lake just NW of the Springbank airport called Glenbow Lake. (See a map (http://encarta.msn.com/map_701595876/Glenbow_Lake.html))

Getting back to the topic, my only reaction is: YUCK!

glenbow reservoir is that big lake in calgary where you can rent boats and stuff...in the southwest, i think.....it used to be a huge sandstone quarry that was later filled with water to make a lake...i guess it must not be called that anymore...what do i know, i am just a winnipegger trying to be funny.

http://gallery.future-i.com/canada/pic:heritage-peninsula/800x600/

http://gallery.future-i.com/canada/panorama/calgary/heritage-park-village/pic:heritage-peninsula/

[Lobstick]

^That would be the Glenmore Reservoir.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmore_Dam

It's kind of similar to the Orange River Floodway in Winnipeg.

[Kevin_foster]

http://oscarliving.com/

"award winning"

buahahah

[trueviking]

^That would be the Glenmore Reservoir.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmore_Dam

It's kind of similar to the Orange River Floodway in Winnipeg.

hmmm...ok, thanks for the correction...i have always refered to it as glenbow....oops.....its odd that if you google 'glenbow', it appears that a lot of other people seem to make the same mistake.

[Distill3d]

i just saw george bush and stephen harper having anal sex, and i would rather see that again then look at this thing. :shrug:

[HomeInMyShoes]

http://oscarliving.com/

"award winning"

buahahah

Apparently it is an "architectural achievement." It's what's on the inside that counts, right?

[chenmau]

Looks like it could be a seniors home in small town Alberta.

[mersar]

Hmm, now that I've know what some of the other projects that the developer has done in the city (montecito, vogue) I'm not that surprised as to the (lack of) quality in this one.

[jeffwhit]

Apparently it is an "architectural achievement." It's what's on the inside that counts, right?

In that case, I just flushed an architectural achievement. It also came "from the inside."

[chenmau]

Did it have a spire? :haha:

[Aegis]

I bet the suites will turn out to be nice... but the rendering looks like shit.

[Calalb]

Did it have a spire? :haha:

That is too funny!!:haha: :haha:

[jeffwhit]

I'm not going to think too hard about that one.

[Stephen Ave]

Should be interesting to see if the developer responds to the e-mail.

[Coldrsx]

if the pontiac aztek was a building, we would call this project the pontiac aztek.

[Coldrsx]

may i present the "oscar"

http://www.autogaleria.pl/tapety/img/pontiac/pontiac_aztek_2001_01_b.jpg

[CMD UW]

/\ oooh, with rims.

[Hardhatdan]

Look at the candy paint on dat ride, rollin on 16s no doubt, thats one fine slab!

[nflood1919]

Oscar is the poorest mo fo on Sesame Street.

[ScottFromCalgary]

I wouldn't be surprised if this project was delayed indefinitely, as it seems like a half-baked concept all the way around. This may be one of those cases where the high construction costs actually do us some good by preventing the marginal projects from ever getting built. I clicked on the link to pre-register just for fun, and they ask the standard "What price range are you interested in?" question, and the lowest number you can pick is $500,000 to $650,000. Anyone who would drop that kind of coin on this piece of junk deserves to lose half a mil.

[whyteknight]

http://www.autogaleria.pl/tapety/img/pontiac/pontiac_aztek_2001_01_b.jpg

^I love how the wall behind the aztek looks exactly like the oscar podium!!

[tokama]

i just saw george bush and stephen harper having anal sex, and i would rather see that again then look at this thing. :shrug:

That is quite simply the most disgusting thing I have ever had the mispleasure of visualizing before I REALLY thought about it.

...oh and George Bush doin harper would be kinda gross too.

...seriously that looks like a peacock screwing a pile of bricks

[Sacamano]

whoa!

did someone for Edmonton say Aztek?

http://members.shaw.ca/vincentwansink/Renderings/142%20Stony%20Plain%20Rd%201.JPG

[The Chemist]

whoa!

did someone for Edmonton say Aztek?

http://members.shaw.ca/vincentwansink/Renderings/142%20Stony%20Plain%20Rd%201.JPG

What in the HELL is that abomination?!?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chicane-uk/thegoggles.gif

[Coldrsx]

^needs some work yes, but far far better than that thing.....but thanks for going off topic and throwing edmonton into this...so, um, calgarian.

[jeffwhit]

^needs some work yes, but far far better than that thing.....but thanks for going off topic and throwing edmonton into this...so, um, calgarian.

Um you must mean Torontonian, look more carefully.

[JBinCalgary]

i just saw george bush and stephen harper having anal sex, and i would rather see that again then look at this thing. :shrug:

HAHAHAHA

[Coldrsx]

Um you must mean Torontonian, look more carefully.

potAto potato

[m0nkyman]

potAto potato

Ouch. I'm not sure which city will be more offended by that....



:tup:

[Western Spaghetti]

whoa!

did someone for Edmonton say Aztek?

http://members.shaw.ca/vincentwansink/Renderings/142%20Stony%20Plain%20Rd%201.JPG

With better colors it could be kinda cool. Oscar is pig with lipstick..nothing you can do to make it look better.

[jeffwhit]

potAto potato

Will someone please stop pissing in Cold's corn flakes?

[Coldrsx]

Will someone please stop pissing in Cold's corn flakes?


:cheers:

[Paper Boy]

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[Paper Boy]

:hmmm: Each piece is dull but acceptible, (Podium, roof element, and main structure) they just look worse together.

[ProudlyCanadian]

Oscar is f***ing terrible.

Please, tell me this one didn't get approval!

[Beazley66]

What in the HELL is that abomination?!?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/chicane-uk/thegoggles.gif

That white blob on the lower centre edge of the image is the cry for help. (tears in me eyes). Alleluljia! thou shalt be saved!