I actually don't mind the back of the building at University and College. It's concrete but well done and faces what amounts to a laneway. In Toronto I see it almost every day as it's very close to my work, too.
Stampitecture seems to be almost universally horrid. While none of the individual buildings are likely to rank in the ugly top 5, as a "style" (using the word loosely) it may be the worst.
EDIT: I'll take Westview Heights over pretty much any stampitecture building any day.
Sadly I agree. At least it is authentic in its ugliness.
Does the BMO Center count as a peice of stampitecture? Here is the BMO Center, here is a Shoppers Drug Mart
The BMO Centre is the preeminent piece of Stampitecture. Not only does it reside on the Stampede grounds, but it is the focal point of the area and utilizes all the faux historic brick patterns, clashing glass/ spandrel windows and cheesy imagery that defines the style.
The BMO Centre is the preeminent piece of Stampitecture. Not only does it reside on the Stampede grounds, but it is the focal point of the area and utilizes all the faux historic brick patterns, clashing glass/ spandrel windows and cheesy imagery that defines the style.
Its funny how it shoots past historical and into suburban strip mall.
The destruction of historic buildings by neglect, renovation and demolition is one of the ugliest things in our country imo.
yep.
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Take any development, add a Shoppers Dog Fart, and it automatically becomes ugly.
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Here’s Winnipeg’s version of the Scotiabank Theatre (it used to be a SilverCity).
I don’t get why they are called Scotiabank Theatres anyway, ones a bank ones a theatre.
There are ones just like it in many cities. Extraordinarily ugly.
and look at this spaceship (spaceshit?) that landed in Kirkland (Terre de Kirque), Quebec (my old stomping grounds...it was a farm back then):
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I'm weird, I like Westview Heights. It's like apartments on storage containers on parkade. All in a 60s sci-fi movie wrapper. It's ugly, but so far gone it's hip. Way, way, way ahead of its time. Starring in a film made in 1963 about the year 2179.
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