[MolsonExport]

notice how I didn't say ugly Canadian (although, I am tempted to after reading through the Voting inequality in Canada to continue thread, and also after making the mistake of going to Walmart the other day).

I'm talking about ugly things in the neighborhood. The city. The countryside. In Canada. Person, Place, or Thing.

Here is a starter. I've hated the 'new' CIBC logo since it first appeared about a decade ago (I much preferred the old symbol that vaguely looked like cupped hands). But what drove my hatred deeper was this photo from the Sarnia photo thread (a great thread by the way: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=5099589#post5099589)

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/sarnia2008/00114.jpg

How tacky. Just plastered over the original elegant inscription.

And from London, Ontario (Drum roll please), behold our ugliest ugly, the London Courthouse building:

http://www.lawyers.ca/international/images/Londoncourt.jpg
www.lawyers.ca

No words are necessary. On the ugliness scale, it ranks up there with the catwoman (wilderstein), the Goblin Shark, and maybe the Kentucky Fry (err, Calgary) tower.

[Coldrsx]

dont get me started

[Highinthesky]

Not a building but the use of Military equipment for a fast food run?

http://i36.tinypic.com/rw5i0y.jpg

[Highinthesky]

Also the wonderful apartment building smack in the middle of my view of the core from my old place.

http://i51.tinypic.com/2643nrr.jpg

[MolsonExport]

^It sure ain't the Chrysler building. I know that building well.

[Highinthesky]

Hopefully none of the posters in here live in the building. Love Winks just down the street though

[MonkeyRonin]

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2711/800pxmarkhamsuburbsaeri.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Markham-suburbs_aerial-edit2.jpg

[BretttheRiderFan]

Royal Ontario Museum

http://www.golfequipment18.com/images/upload/Image/RoyalOntarioMuseum-wide.jpg

[Winnipegger]

http://www.zmemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nickelback-02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback

Do I win?

Edit: You said person, right?

[Gresto]

:previous: The thread is "Ugly Canada", not "Show us a picture of four fucking übertools", but I guess they fit.

[1ajs]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4619517717_43be56a22f_o.jpg

[Blitz]

My least favourite building in Windsor:

http://www.pbase.com/swosett_photography/image/55177052.jpg


Sticking with the CIBC theme, here's one in Amherstburg!

http://www.pbase.com/swosett_photography/image/48159001.jpg


Photos are my own

[The_Architect]

I actually like the ROM, I don't like the mismatched job they did cladding it, but the overall design isn't bad. I like the mix of old and new, and it's quite daring for Toronto, you can't say it's boring to say the least. Going there tomorrow actually.. Though I also don't hate the Louvre Pyramid..

My vote is for the TorStar building. Not because of it's Brutalism, I like Brutalism. It's the fact that it's ugly as sin and the base of Yonge St.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/One_Yonge_Street.jpg/438px-One_Yonge_Street.jpg

[Devon]

devonhanofski.blogspot.com


Depends how you look at it. Saskatoon mostly.

[1ajs]

really? saskatoon is quite nice actually.

[Devon]

really? saskatoon is quite nice actually.

It's a beautiful city! Just photos I have taken. Seedier type stuff interests me haha.

[PhilippeMtl]

Hotel de la Montagne

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN2476.jpg
imtl.org

Rigaud
http://www.imtl.org/image/big/le_rigeau.jpg

imtl.org

[Flamesrule]

I like the CIBC logo.

[vid]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/sarnia2008/00114.jpg

Why was the top sign even necessary? Are the words "Canadian Bank of Commerce" not sufficient to let people know which bank it is??

Here is our downtown CIBC:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4912923834_f98b9a598a_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/4912923834/)

You can't even see the signs. :rolleyes:

This guy gets an E for Effort:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3778556107_b64d2fc87a_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3778556107/)

The tree plays a very important role in this composition.

[Only The Lonely..]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4619517717_43be56a22f_o.jpg

Where is this?

[1ajs]

Where is this?
selkirk ave the relick of the depression of the 90's

[BretttheRiderFan]

Here's an ugly part of Canadian history

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__hJbAyKO97w/SZ0w2wOZEeI/AAAAAAAAAq8/J9jUP_MeI5A/s320/canucks_jerseys250.jpg

[NetMapel]

Here's an ugly part of Canadian history

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__hJbAyKO97w/SZ0w2wOZEeI/AAAAAAAAAq8/J9jUP_MeI5A/s320/canucks_jerseys250.jpg

Keep your bias hockey opinion in the NHL thread.

[Metro-One]

:previous: I think it may have nothing to do with the hockey, just those ugly jerseys, hehe

[Distill3d]

My least favourite building in Windsor:

http://www.pbase.com/swosett_photography/image/55177052.jpg

Seriously? Wow...thats just wrong. You'd think the top floors would get the balconies over the middle ones.

[harls]

This pile of shit has made an appearance on this forum before..

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/381907016_be4d92b985.jpg

City Centre building in Ottawa, by Steve Brandon, Flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55996159@N00/381907016/)

[Dwils01]

The steel Mills of Hamilton.
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/isg/RedOxide.jpg

Here's some ugly buildings from Oakville.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4052/4435444474_3a307d3cff.jpg

[vid]

Some of these buildings would be right at home in the Soviet Union. :yes:

[MolsonExport]

http://www.zmemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nickelback-02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback

Do I win?

Edit: You said person, right?

Cannot be topped. Hatred is too kind a word, ugly (re: Chad Kroeger) is not nearly severe enough to adequately describe that cat's asshole of a face.

[Acajack]

notice how I didn't say ugly Canadian (although, I am tempted to after reading through the Voting inequality in Canada to continue thread, .

I am trying REALLY hard to be nice on there, I swear!

[Kevin_foster]

Edmonton's contributions:

1) Peregrine point:
http://imgur.com/XwFcO.jpg

2) The Venetian condo:
http://imgur.com/QhrJP.jpg

Both from google maps

[Ramako]

Dear God, that Venetian condo is offensive.

[mr.John]

How about Canada's national disgrace


http://atencentgemjar.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/don_cherry3.jpg
atencentgemjar.wordpress.com

[niwell]

Maybe I've developed strange taste over the past few years, but I actually don't mind most of the buildings being posted. The brutalist stuff especially is fairly interesting. And while certainly ugly, places like Hamilton's steel mills have an iconic factor that can't be discounted.

Now those abortions from Edmonton posted above - that's the kind of thing I can get on board as being hideous! Not intending to disparage Edmonton, since there are similar projects in all Canadian cities:

http://www.rentseeker.ca/Manage/Uploads/140720100440-Big-rent_apartment_toronto.jpg
http://www.rentseeker.ca/Manage/Uploads/140720100440-Big-rent_apartment_toronto.jpg

Newish (!) rental complex at Dupont + Lansdowne in Toronto... truly awful.

[Witty Nickname]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1175/1369944910_b0841c9d43.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/singlemoment/1369944910/)
Vantage Pointe, east side of building (http://www.flickr.com/photos/singlemoment/1369944910/) by LUMIN8 (http://www.flickr.com/people/singlemoment/), on Flickr

[-Harlington-]

Behold:


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/500835548_601f2ae1a2.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/60104319_85619b9a19.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/177275302_306ab6a575.jpg


Fenwick Tower Halifax

[flar]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/suburbia/00160.jpg

(multiplied by 1000 times every city in Canada)

[Ramako]

What's going on with the overhaul of Fenwick anyway? Has it been approved yet?

[kw5150]

It is called "Drury Manor" Here is is! Winnipeg, Manitoba

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8plG9BFpDh0/SICi-LI5NLI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/RBIG3RLPTDc/SL271341.JPG

[1ajs]

pemida?
lots ugly montrosities along that strip

[Cambridgite]

This pile of shit has made an appearance on this forum before..

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/381907016_be4d92b985.jpg

City Centre building in Ottawa, by Steve Brandon, Flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55996159@N00/381907016/)

LOL!!! :haha:

I've seen that building before, in real life. I couldn't tell whether it was apartments, an office buildings, insane asylum, homeless shelter, bunker, etc.

What the hell is it?

[1ajs]

a mall office building bassed on the name

[niwell]

It's an industrial mall / distribution centre with manufacturing style offices attached. As ugly as it is I have a fondness for the place, and it could probably be converted to loft style live/work spaces or something like that. That was done to a building of similar vintage in Etobicoke.

[-AX-]

You can't beat buildings with a steel deck cladding!


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2912171791_5344f2730f_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2912168567_02a0021847_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2919539421_9f61879cd1_o.jpg

[-Harlington-]

What's going on with the overhaul of Fenwick anyway? Has it been approved yet?


i believe it is still proposed but how can anyone not approve changing that big ugly, aha
although it is halifax
heres the thread for it if your intrested:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=175869&page=8

[Airboy]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4941939855_271f442f2d_b.jpg

Iqaluit aquatic centre with Iqaluit High School in the distance.

[Darkoshvilli]

Some Montreal uglies

Concordias Mconnell library building

http://www.concordia.ca/images/about-concordia/where-we-are/tour-concordia/sgw/library.jpg

Le Chatel is kinda ugly

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN2222.jpg

Place du Canada

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN2303.jpg

Terrasse Outremont

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN2934.jpg

I used to live in this one

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/IMG_0619.jpg

La Citadelle

http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN6685.jpg

[MolsonExport]

Darko, you got 'em all ! What a collection of Montreal uglies. Fortunately, the women of Ste Catherine in summer more than make up for it.


The Ugly F. Hell Building, Concordia University
http://www.imtl.org/image/big/Henry_F_Hall_Concordia.jpg

[Darkoshvilli]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Hell building.:haha:

[freeweed]

Yeah, Montreal is definitely a study in contrasts. Most cities in Canada have these abominations, but they don't stand out as much as in Montreal - because Montreal has so many other nice things to compare with.

Is QC like this as well?

[vicbc250]

view towers, victoria bc AKA crack towers to us locals, the new teal green and white paint is an eye sore of a cheap reno but the cracked and chipping paint before it I guess wasa worse

http://aptenobytes.typepad.com/m0nkymans_photo_blog/images/DSC00028-1-tm.jpg

http://aptenobytes.typepad.com/m0nkymans_photo_blog/images/DSC00029-tm.jpg

[MrOilers]

dont get me started

:haha: :cheers:

[Reesonov]

My least favourite building in Windsor:

http://www.pbase.com/swosett_photography/image/55177052.jpg


Photos are my own

Wait a minute. Foster totally ripped off this design for Jamison House! Busted.

[mr.John]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Hell building.:haha:

You also forgot the big O,Turcot interchange,complex Desjardin,the Rogers building on Mcgill college,the CBC building,place Bonaventure and on and on ....

[alps]

http://imgur.com/VkQqZ.jpg
(Photo credit: user Dmajackson (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=4561404&postcount=105))

It wouldn't be as notably GODAWFUL if it wasn't on such a prominent intersection, facing the Commons and the Armoury to the south. But we never had high expectations after the rendering was released.

http://imgur.com/DLDNs.png http://imgur.com/4YECn.jpg
(Bing maps and "Solid Homes")

Also not a fan of the massive parking garages and and interchange that kill off downtown to the north, or the casino that looks like a suburban warehouse and a mosque mated.

http://imgur.com/0Hur4.png
(Bing maps)

I don't mind many of the buildings mentioned in the thread so far, including Fenwick.

I think Flar's omnipresent McMansions win. :yuck:

[Flamesrule]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/suburbia/00160.jpg

(multiplied by 1000 times every city in Canada)

Yeah, I see those kinds of houses in Northern Ontario everywhere.

[O-tacular]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/suburbia/00160.jpg

(multiplied by 1000 times every city in Canada)

The corinthian columns add a nice touch.

[O-tacular]

Edmonton's contributions:

1) Peregrine point:
http://imgur.com/XwFcO.jpg

2) The Venetian condo:
http://imgur.com/QhrJP.jpg

Both from google maps

The Venetian is one of the worst projects I've seen in recent memory. Is it basically just stucco on a woodframe? If so maybe someone should hire an arsonist.

[240glt]

It's steel truss & Q deck with tilt up panels. Construction wise I don't think it's that bad.

It is however particularly ugly.

[O-tacular]

Wait a minute. Foster totally ripped off this design for Jamison House! Busted.

From my perepheral vision I thought it was Jamieson house!!!

[O-tacular]

I present to you....

Calgary's Bromley Square!!!!!!!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1899&bih=895&q=bromley+square+apartment+calgary&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

[flar]

This pile of shit has made an appearance on this forum before..

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/381907016_be4d92b985.jpg

City Centre building in Ottawa, by Steve Brandon, Flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55996159@N00/381907016/)

I looked at that building on the way home today, it got new cladding but it looks worse because they took off the cool lettering.

[O-tacular]

nevermind
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[vid]

Yeah, I see those kinds of houses in Northern Ontario everywhere.

They do exist, just not as common. There is actually one right by our downtown, in an historic neighbourhood. In that context, it actually isn't too bad (it has trees on the lot and everything), but it still pales in comparison to the turn of the century mansions around it.

Across the street is a beautiful Romanesque house (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.379243,-89.252061&spn=0.00362,0.007993&z=17&layer=c&cbll=48.379246,-89.251936&panoid=HKp8o8eQ8thlC5qWpVx34g&cbp=12,359.43,,0,-1.4). Another one here (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.478597,-89.185081&spn=0.007283,0.015986&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.478651,-89.18498&panoid=6ACnGTRRv9ybf4PQIFnzUg&cbp=12,20.04,,0,3.67) at the northernmost reach of the city. (This house is further north than Timmins.) Around it are houses from basically every year since 1945.

[MolsonExport]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/381907016_be4d92b985.jpg

Ugly enough to stop a clock. Almost as ugly as Chad Kroeger.

[MolsonExport]

It is called "Drury Manor" Here is is! Winnipeg, Manitoba

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8plG9BFpDh0/SICi-LI5NLI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/RBIG3RLPTDc/SL271341.JPG

obviously there is a typo. It must be the Dreary Manor

[vid]

That woman standing there looking at you is a nice touch.

[flar]

I actually kinda like this building, but most people seem to have a hatred of old apartment blocks and it has a good name:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/retro/00044a.jpg

[CorbeauNoir]

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/Patrick_Helliwell/Halifax/DSC00210Medium.jpg

Ocean Towers in Halifax. Transglobe property - enough said.

[vid]

You think they would be positioned with a waterfront view...

[MolsonExport]

I actually kinda like this building, but most people seem to have a hatred of old apartment blocks and it has a good name:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/segaert/retro/00044a.jpg

Butty Bitter bought some butter.

[dennis]

^How can anyone hate a building that says "smile?"

[-Harlington-]

You think they would be positioned with a waterfront view...



You'd think....

[whiteford]

I present to you....

Calgary's Bromley Square!!!!!!!

http://maps.google.ca/maps?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1899&bih=895&q=bromley+square+apartment+calgary&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

i used to live on the 32nd floor of this monster. haha. the only realy good thing i liked about it was the glass elevators. most of the time my not so good freinds wouldent visit because they were afraid of them. that is good. and anouther thing is, when the stampede is on, the fireworks exploded right infront of my 32nd floor belcony. that was good as well. so while it may be ugly, and it is, i found a few good points along the way.:yes:

[artvandelay]

i used to live on the 32nd floor of this monster. haha. the only realy good thing i liked about it was the glass elevators. most of the time my not so good freinds wouldent visit because they were afraid of them. that is good. and anouther thing is, when the stampede is on, the fireworks exploded right infront of my 32nd floor belcony. that was good as well. so while it may be ugly, and it is, i found a few good points along the way.:yes:

I worked with a girl who lived in Bromley last year, heard a few crazy stories about that place. It was home to this Darwin award winner who jumped down the garbage chute after a night of Stampeding - he didn't realize there was an automatic compactor at the bottom:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-31.html

[entheosfog]

Downtown Vancouver ugly:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4950733666_9771b0ba1a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/4950733666/)
Ugly Downtown Building (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/4950733666/) by entheos_fog (http://www.flickr.com/people/entheos_fog/), on Flickr

This is an unanimously ugly and soul-destroying building, right in the heart of downtown on Granville street:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4349954465_095b1c8b00.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/4349954465/)
This Needs To Go (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/4349954465/) by entheos_fog (http://www.flickr.com/people/entheos_fog/), on Flickr

Vancouver Aquatic Centre, located right on False Creek and not a window on this bunker at all:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5176245774_00aa87debe.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/5176245774/)
Vancouver Aquatic Centre (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/5176245774/) by entheos_fog (http://www.flickr.com/people/entheos_fog/), on Flickr

[ssiguy]

That Venetian is horrid. It wouldn't be quite so bad if it was just one colour.
London excels at ugly concreter apt towers which they continue to build both downtown and in the suburbs.
i don't mind Vancouver's Aquatic Centre but the CBC building on the other is in a league of it's own.
Vancouver also has half on the entire city with the horrid "Vancouver specials" housing. The thing that makes them even worse is that some go fo close to a million bucks.

[whiteford]

^ ha ha that is somthing that my freinds and i had wondered if anyone would ever do. and sure enuff. some things are so predictable.

[entheosfog]

That Venetian is horrid. It wouldn't be quite so bad if it was just one colour.
London excels at ugly concreter apt towers which they continue to build both downtown and in the suburbs.
i don't mind Vancouver's Aquatic Centre but the CBC building on the other is in a league of it's own.
Vancouver also has half on the entire city with the horrid "Vancouver specials" housing. The thing that makes them even worse is that some go fo close to a million bucks.

and some neighbourhoods are overwhelmed with 'em:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5166/5285833894_0dcbe408dc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/5285833894/)
Vancouver Special Overload (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/5285833894/) by entheos_fog (http://www.flickr.com/people/entheos_fog/), on Flickr

[vid]

At least there aren't lots of them (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.386283,-89.244025&spn=0.007239,0.015557&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.386279,-89.244131&panoid=lmpHTNJtZqRkF58jI_ZqsA&cbp=12,181.28,,0,-4.56).

[Distill3d]

obviously there is a typo. It must be the Dreary Manor

That's the typo you want to go with? I was thinking the 1833 typo. I didn't realize we started building Brutalist buildings 177 years ago!! :tup:

[vid]

Would that be considered a Brutalist building?

[someone123]

At least there aren't lots of them (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.386283,-89.244025&spn=0.007239,0.015557&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.386279,-89.244131&panoid=lmpHTNJtZqRkF58jI_ZqsA&cbp=12,181.28,,0,-4.56).

http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=48.389444,-89.245544&panoid=kyVxVfI17JHtz4jMyrVWSQ&cbp=12,91.53,,0,1.32&ll=48.389347,-89.245548&spn=0.012326,0.031199&t=h&z=16

Simpler Times Cremation Centre? I'm also wondering what they do in Northwest Funeral Alternative Inc... :sly:

[vid]

Soylent Green. :yes:



They're both cremation companies. The fact that they're located directly across from each other is simply icing on the cake. I love it.

Northwest Funeral Alternatives is for people who can't afford a bunch of pomp and ceremony around the funeral. After my uncle was killed a few years ago we used their service and then had a ceremony in his home town that summer where we deposited his ashes in his father's grave (we had to use our own container, since they just bag the ashes; ironically, I suppose, it was a wooden box that my uncle found himself; he also found his gravestone shortly before he was murdered. He came home with a nice chunk of granite, plopped it on the floor in front of everyone and said "this will be my gravestone". He was a crazy guy. :P) Simpler Times will set you up with a beautiful urn and help plan ceremonies and whatnot, it's more "traditional" that way. I actually prefer the more simple, family made ceremonies you get with somewhere like Funeral Alternative as opposed to the awkward elaborate ceremonies but a lot of people like the tradition I guess. I certainly wouldn't want my family to spend thousands of dollars to bury my remains. Personally, I find the idea very creepy. I like the "wrap you in a shroud and let the forest eat you" type thing hippies do in BC.

[MolsonExport]

From Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/7d/30/castle-dracula-exterior.jpg

[freeweed]

A good chunk of Niagara Falls would fit in this thread.

[Flamesrule]

^^Yep. Thier highrises and the casinos are a drag.

[MTLskyline]

This thread is nothing without some Longueuil! I took these a few years ago!

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7775/img0155rp.jpg

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/85/img0158ov.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/197/img0159lz.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8692/img0162ld.jpg

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5492/img0163bk.jpg

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9550/img0164um.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3584/img0165ru.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6969/img0167c.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4174/img0168fw.jpg

(Benny Chicken is pretty good, mind you!)
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2026/img0169uo.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1953/img0170zv.jpg

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6474/img0171oa.jpg

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3237/img0172rx.jpg

[Flamesrule]

They do exist, just not as common. There is actually one right by our downtown, in an historic neighbourhood. In that context, it actually isn't too bad (it has trees on the lot and everything), but it still pales in comparison to the turn of the century mansions around it.

Across the street is a beautiful Romanesque house (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.379243,-89.252061&spn=0.00362,0.007993&z=17&layer=c&cbll=48.379246,-89.251936&panoid=HKp8o8eQ8thlC5qWpVx34g&cbp=12,359.43,,0,-1.4). Another one here (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.478597,-89.185081&spn=0.007283,0.015986&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.478651,-89.18498&panoid=6ACnGTRRv9ybf4PQIFnzUg&cbp=12,20.04,,0,3.67) at the northernmost reach of the city. (This house is further north than Timmins.) Around it are houses from basically every year since 1945.

Sorry, I meant to say Southern Ontario...............

[Doug]

Place Bonaventure in Montreal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/179940289_09ee13fb25.jpg

[Wooster]

Behold Princess Towers in Kingston. This picture doesn't quite capture its true post apocolyptic feel.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/122139122_de48221d7b.jpg

[SpongeG]

Behold Princess Towers in Kingston. This picture doesn't quite capture its true post apocolyptic feel.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/122139122_de48221d7b.jpg

that place is brutal - looked at a unit inside once when looking for an apartment there once it was such a weird layout and it was on mulitiple levels

[vid]

This thread is nothing without some Longueuil! I took these a few years ago!

(photos of Longueuil)

There IS some place like home! :)

[O-tacular]

I worked with a girl who lived in Bromley last year, heard a few crazy stories about that place. It was home to this Darwin award winner who jumped down the garbage chute after a night of Stampeding - he didn't realize there was an automatic compactor at the bottom:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-31.html

Of course it happened in Bromley Square. That makes perfect sense. If I lived in that monstrosity I'd kill myself too.

[O-tacular]

Downtown Vancouver ugly:

This is an unanimously ugly and soul-destroying building, right in the heart of downtown on Granville street:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4349954465_095b1c8b00.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/4349954465/)


Oh SEARS... so suiting that it's a SEARS. And oddly enough I remember this building quite vividly from a visit a couple years ago. Is it at that intersection with the 2 Cafe Crepes across the street from one another?

[SpikePhanta]

Oh SEARS... so suiting that it's a SEARS. And oddly enough I remember this building quite vividly from a visit a couple years ago. Is it at that intersection with the 2 Cafe Crepes across the street from one another?

It was an Eatons.

There is a Cafe Crepes at this intersection and one block south there is another.

Its not as bad as the huge amount of Starbucks we have in the downtown core.
Heck the starbucks app crashes when used in Downtown.

[MolsonExport]

Longueuil...ahh, the true grit and shit. I spent aeons at the damned bus terminal back in the day (gf lived in St Hubert: the armpit of the world).

[MolsonExport]

From Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls.

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/7d/30/castle-dracula-exterior.jpg

I forgot to mention. This place plays the soundtrack for John Carpenter's Halloween over, and over, and over, and over and over again (all day, all night). A couple of years back, while at a conference, I stayed at the Sheraton at the Falls, and would walk up/down the Clifton Hill stretch for my dose of cheese.

[niwell]

Man, suburban Canada is pretty ugly in general, but the outskirts of Montreal seem to just be tops in this regard. The pics of Longueuil attest to this, but the drive from the west on the 40 passing through Vandreuil-Dorion is even worse. I guess it evens out with how good the inner-city looks.

Toronto just has a uniform level of ugly throughout. I mean, I'll take Dufferin (south of Eglinton obvs) over say, Dixie road any day, but it isn't exactly an attractive street.

[freeweed]

Location: Vancouver

the starbucks app crashes when used in Downtown.

I kinda want this as a bumper sticker. :haha: