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The World Ending in a Monochromatic RLApocalypse
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Ottawater
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I think this building used to be sock brown. This string of buildings on Lees used to be really run down and their addresses synonymous with major crime scenes in the Sun. In particular 180 lees.
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I'm glad to hear the area is improving, but I prefer the original 'sock brown' of the neighbouring tower. This trend of white/gray washing all the old towers is making the city even gloomier than it already was, in my opinion. So sterile...so cold.
For sure. Great to hear the area is improving, but yeah, the trend of taking inoffensive red, brown and even brutalist concrete towers of the 1970s and turning them into charcwhites is kind of concerning. I cringe every time I see more of these "reclads" taking shape.
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I prefer the black brick type. Like Nuevo on Rochester. Too dark?
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Funny how the Watson Club thought Jan's perceived (and probably real) conflict of interest was fine, or how it was ok for Cloutier to take extra money for the community from the developer for Herongate, but they think Menard is crook.
Ooh, such modern!!!
Baseline across from Centrepointe
Baseline across from Centrepointe
Those were WAY nicer before. What were they thinking.
Oooh yeah, got some randomly painted crosses there, and that beautiful black podium...so modern, so welcoming!!
That is quite terrible. Again, what are they thinking!
Driving by Front/Eardley today and my 8 year old daughter asks 'Daddy, why are those the ugliest buildings I have ever seen in my life?'
It's honestly a very good question, to which I sincerely had no answer
Call me crazy, but I think this is 1000x better than living in SootWorld.
It's honestly a very good question, to which I sincerely had no answer
Call me crazy, but I think this is 1000x better than living in SootWorld.
We have a lot of these apartment blocks in a park in Ottawa. Some are quite nice, like the ones on Byron at Sherbourne, others like these weren't great. These charwhitifications are making them all terrible.
I thought the ones on Baseline at the Transitway were bad, but these are far worse.
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Vanier and Église could eb the absolute worse; previously the buildings were quite nice. Now they look like a fake 1980s Miami film set.
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Keep the bricks the natural red and brown hughes. Not only does it look better, but it's better for the brick so it can breath.
I thought the ones on Baseline at the Transitway were bad, but these are far worse.
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Vanier and Église could eb the absolute worse; previously the buildings were quite nice. Now they look like a fake 1980s Miami film set.
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Keep the bricks the natural red and brown hughes. Not only does it look better, but it's better for the brick so it can breath.
The most offensive CharcWhiteification in the city on St. Laurent is already deteriorating, to the surprise of nobody. What's the gameplan here for the landlords of all these painted buildings? Repaint every five years, or let Ottawa look like Chisinau?
Almost like painting brick is a bad idea. Do they do this instead of repointing or something? That's the case when they stucco the brick, I'm sure.
I'm in suburban Budapest right now...reminds me of home
