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

[HomeInMyShoes]

^^I preferred it with the 1960 green windows. The newer ones look very out of place. An anachronism really for the building. It is an odd building, but way better than most large buildings in St. John's.

The real ugly in St. John's is the Atlantic Place parkade..

I suppose a redeeming quality would be that downtown St. John's has a great start on building the sea wall to combat rising sea levels.

[HomeInMyShoes]

If we were compiling an all-ugly list, what would it be?

Calgary - McLeod Trail
Edmonton - The Venetian (Peregrine Point)
Regina - Renaissance Condos
Winnipeg - Radisson Hotel
Hamilton - Landmark Place
Niagara Falls - pretty much all of downtown
Laval - he who shall not be named
St. John's - The Rooms (The (assault and) Battery Hotel; Ches's; all of Paradise)

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

If we were compiling an all-ugly list, what would it be?

Calgary - McLeod Trail
Edmonton - The Venetian (Peregrine Point)
Regina - Renaissance Condos
Winnipeg - Radisson Hotel
Hamilton - Landmark Place
Niagara Falls - pretty much all of downtown
Laval - he who shall not be named
St. John's - The Rooms (The (assault and) Battery Hotel; Ches's; all of Paradise)

You are missingsausage's city hall

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by lio45

Out of curiosity, what other buildings in the province would have larger floorplates?

Usually when anything urban is the biggest there is on the island of Montreal, it's likely also the biggest in the province. Or, for maximum effect, "the biggest in Canada east of the Don Valley Parkway".

Would the Dorval airport terminal count? Olympic Stadium?

The old GM plant up by A-15 N was probably quite big but it's no longer there.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Would the Dorval airport terminal count? Olympic Stadium?

The old GM plant up by A-15 N was probably quite big but it's no longer there.

yeah, I would have thought Dorval, but it is not a single building/construction, but a conglomeration.

I remember the Boisbriand (Ste. Therese) GM plant with its 100s of smokestacks.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^^I preferred it with the 1960 green windows. The newer ones look very out of place. An anachronism really for the building. It is an odd building, but way better than most large buildings in St. John's.

The real ugly in St. John's is the Atlantic Place parkade..

I suppose a redeeming quality would be that downtown St. John's has a great start on building the sea wall to combat rising sea levels.

In terms of parking garages, this one in Ottawa is more scandalous IMO given where it's located:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/A.../data=!3m1!1e3

Here it is on the other side:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/35...!4d-75.6931124

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by Acajack

In terms of parking garages, this one in Ottawa is more scandalous IMO given where it's located:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/A.../data=!3m1!1e3

Here it is on the other side:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/35...!4d-75.6931124

I remember that parking garage, but it is understated and relatively small. Granted, the parking garage for Atlantic Place is only half the building, but here is how it works within the context of the rest of downtown

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

If we were compiling an all-ugly list, what would it be?

Calgary - McLeod Trail
Edmonton - The Venetian (Peregrine Point)
Regina - Renaissance Condos
Winnipeg - Radisson Hotel
Hamilton - Landmark Place
Niagara Falls - pretty much all of downtown
Laval - he who shall not be named
St. John's - The Rooms (The (assault and) Battery Hotel; Ches's; all of Paradise)

All that you just said plus these additions.

Toronto - Grand Harbour


Toronto - Bloor Dundas Sqaure


Mississauga - City Hall


Calgary - Five West


Calgary - The Park


Montreal - Pepsi Forum


Longueuil - all of it

Montreal - Le Chatel


Waterloo - all of it

Laval - all of it

Hamilton - Chatue Royale

[rousseau]

I think Mississauga's city hall takes the grand prize. Really.

[Acajack]

Guys, I think we're starting to repeat ourselves and go around in circles.

(Could it be that this thread has run out of ugly Canadian buildings to feature?)

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Guys, I think we're starting to repeat ourselves and go around in circles.

(Could it be that this thread has run out of ugly Canadian buildings to feature?)

We have barely scratched the surface of Fugliness in my own city let alone the country. We haven’t even got much in BC and New Brunswick yet

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

i won't say it's ugly. I won't say it. There is a seductiveness, even if it is brutal.
The inside of Place Bonaventure's main exhibition hall (as big as it is, only a very small fraction of the behemoth that is Place Bonaventure):

a49montreal

At first glance on my cellphone I thought that was an elevated freeway.

I actually find Place Bonaventure amazing. I like brutalism with expansive interior spaces.

[stevanford1]

In terms of new buildings to nominate. The Ted Rogers School Of Management gets a lot of hate. Personally I very much dislike it.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

Vancouver ugly's (we don't have enough).

Ugly Pink Building
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.28918...7i16384!8i8192

Vancouver could use more pink glass and less seafoam green.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

At first glance on my cellphone I thought that was an elevated freeway.

I actually find Place Bonaventure amazing. I like brutalism with expansive interior spaces.

Same, I never got the hate around Bonaventure. Sure it’s big and rather menacing but that’s just part of its appeal for me.

[stevanford1]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Vancouver could use more pink glass and less seafoam green.

True

[HomeInMyShoes]

I was merely looking for the ultimate ugly list. There is still plenty of soul-sucking discoveries to make, but if you had to list one structure / design feature that says everything about the ugliness in your locale, what is it?

Some more Regina...

Basement Offices on that stretch of Victoria Avenue, no thank-you

all that Glitters is...

maybe the best looking hotel built in Regina in the last decade

you too can own a condo in bigboxlandia

wow, look at the size of those, those, those...

everybody loves the Hardy Boys

Boardwalkia

do you remember that scene from Edward Scissorhands?

and in the crimes against humanity additions category

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

If we were compiling an all-ugly list, what would it be?

Calgary - McLeod Trail
Edmonton - The Venetian (Peregrine Point)
Regina - Renaissance Condos
Winnipeg - Radisson Hotel
Hamilton - Landmark Place
Niagara Falls - pretty much all of downtown
Laval - he who shall not be named
St. John's - The Rooms (The (assault and) Battery Hotel; Ches's; all of Paradise)

at the bolded part.

A worthy list. NE Calgary is also very ugly but Macleod Trail has such a concentration of hideous it is perhaps an easier landmark than simply an entire quadrant of the city. Seriously though, streetview any random part of NE Calgary and see.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Acajack

In terms of parking garages, this one in Ottawa is more scandalous IMO given where it's located:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/A.../data=!3m1!1e3

Here it is on the other side:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/35...!4d-75.6931124

That's nothing compared to Calgary's blocks long CPA lot 25.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0435...7i13312!8i6656

Follow 10th ave straight down to Macleod trail and basically everything on the north side of the street is a parking garage.

Another block down:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0433...7i13312!8i6656

[stevanford1]

Those bigboxlandia condos pale in comparison to this gem in Grimsby.


And right on the highway so everyone can enjoy it’s fugly “glory”.