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Ivor Biggun: Apr 30, 2003; A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula; Lipstick Apathy

Nefarious posted:

lol at people getting mad over the frank lloyd wright house. if goons designed houses they'd be windowless pyramids. can't get any more efficient than that

Goons would design for maximum efficiency

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Ivor Biggun: Apr 30, 2003; A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula; Lipstick Apathy

Deathreaper posted:

I think Ottawa could fill up this entire thread. Most tourist locations in the city such as the Parliament hill, the ByWard market and the large number of museums scattered throughout the city don�t accurately convey the bland soviet era brutalist architecture which makes up a very large part of the city. A quote which sums up the city quite well: Ottawa Citizen architecture critic Rhys Phillips has echoed these concerns, saying that Ottawa "looks like some tired little Prairie town on its last legs.�. Let�s get started with some of my favourite architectural monstrosities (AKA half the city once you go south of Wellington Street past the parliament buildings).
University of Ottawa and surrounding areas

The University of Ottawa flak tower also serves as a library from time to time.

Giant complex of bland apartments south of campus. Lots of students rent apartments in these buildings.

Downtown Core

Lovely 8 or 9 story windowless block of concrete sitting right in the middle of down town Ottawa. Building takes up about half a block and casts shade all around it. I think it serves as a large mechanical building for a telecom in the region.

Your average Government of Canada monstrosity built in the 1970�s. Usually packed with asbestos and featuring poor ventilation � as you can imagine employees are sick half the time. Unfortunately the Government of Canada owns a lot of these awful properties throughout the city which really the area a bad look. �In an era of political discontent over high taxes it was even a priority that the buildings not be cheap, but also look cheap so that visitors from the regions wouldn't feel that the federal government was wasting their money in Ottawa.�

Here are some of the awful condos in the downtown core. No this is not the Soviet Union and more shocking is that people actually buy these with their money� Condo fees are insanely high for these types of building which probably reflects upkeep cost due to the age and cheapness of the building

Another apartment

The police station

The library

The National Arts Center, another giant slab of concrete

View from the Parliament (lol we ran out of money for windows OR planning was so bad the building supposed to be behind was never built)

Note that this doesn't even cover a tenth of the terrible crap in Ottawa. Multiply the asbestos filled bland government buildings and Soviet style condo / apartment towers scattered throughout the area and that should give you a pretty good feel for the city. Ottawa is a city where architecture goes to die.

Looks like Detroit pre-Delta City.

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