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There's probably just a pre-war strip by the lake and the rest is just random roads with random houses with some of the roads.
The downtown area is actually pretty far from the lake
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Thanks for posting those; I had heard of the place, but knew nothing about it. Some of the downtown areas appear to have a comfortable human scale about them, and the high-rises seem strangely out of context. This one evoked an instantaneous visceral, involuntarily vocal response from me:
As soon as I saw it I exclaimed, "Aaaagh! Nasty!" It might sort of work in a better setting surrounded with other buildings of similar scale and softened with some landscaping, especially large trees, but the way it's situated it's frightening in appearance, all fortified-looking and sticking up all by itself, dominating its surroundings. For me it evokes a feeling like an alien guard tower.
A common reaction to brutalism
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wait, do people really call it the "shwa"? Aside from the 70s and 80s monstrosities, looks good to me.
Thanks for posting those; I had heard of the place, but knew nothing about it. Some of the downtown areas appear to have a comfortable human scale about them, and the high-rises seem strangely out of context. This one evoked an instantaneous visceral, involuntarily vocal response from me:
As soon as I saw it I exclaimed, "Aaaagh! Nasty!" It might sort of work in a better setting surrounded with other buildings of similar scale and softened with some landscaping, especially large trees, but the way it's situated it's frightening in appearance, all fortified-looking and sticking up all by itself, dominating its surroundings. For me it evokes a feeling like an alien guard tower.
Oshawa appears to be very gritty and real. I like some of its older bones. I can definitely see the Windsor connection as well. I also noticed quite a few different ethnic restaurants (yum). Your photography is great as per usual. Thanks!
As soon as I saw it I exclaimed, "Aaaagh! Nasty!" It might sort of work in a better setting surrounded with other buildings of similar scale and softened with some landscaping, especially large trees, but the way it's situated it's frightening in appearance, all fortified-looking and sticking up all by itself, dominating its surroundings. For me it evokes a feeling like an alien guard tower.
Oshawa certainly has its similarities to Windsor. Both motor cities with populations in the region of 150,000. I have family in both cities, and have spent a fair bit of time there, and would say there's a similar vibe to both. Windsor has a slightly bigger city feel to it in my opinion, but both are affordable places to live.
Thanks for posting those; I had heard of the place, but knew nothing about it. Some of the downtown areas appear to have a comfortable human scale about them, and the high-rises seem strangely out of context. This one evoked an instantaneous visceral, involuntarily vocal response from me:
As soon as I saw it I exclaimed, "Aaaagh! Nasty!" It might sort of work in a better setting surrounded with other buildings of similar scale and softened with some landscaping, especially large trees, but the way it's situated it's frightening in appearance, all fortified-looking and sticking up all by itself, dominating its surroundings. For me it evokes a feeling like an alien guard tower.
This picture doesn't quite do this building justice. I agree that it is an ugly brute, but when looked at from other angles there are a few other buildings of similar height that work with it. It's just out of shot on the mid-left of this picture.
Cool pics Flar..I actually lived there for a few months way back ...Right near the OC...Oshawa is another one of those city-towns like Sudbury and Kingston whereas they are at a weird awkward in- between size..Too small to be called a big city, yet too big to be called a town. At the time, it had civic pride..The Generals were doing good..
Whitby, right next door, was just weird..At the time it had 50,000 people. yet had a downtown like it was only 5000 people..The effects of being a commuter town for Toronto I suppose...Oshawa on the other hand has a real bonafide downtown core..At least it used to.
You did a nice job of isolating buildings, it gives a whole different look to the city. Oshawa is a typical blue collar town. The people are open and easy to meet. General Motors doesn't employ the amount of people it use to. The downtown certainly isn't pretty, but it's getting better. They build the new Oshawa Generals rink downtown and also The University (former Durham College) bought up some buildings downtown and are refurbishing them. You now see students walking around.
Oshawa is still growing, but it is mainly in the North, North/East area and it includes the typical new malls/stores that comes with it.
Whitby's downtown (just west of Oshawa) is quite nice and has some great bars.
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