khris
Senior Member
I really like that Bell building also. I find them visually appealing. It's how it meets the street that needs work!
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Doyenne
Grad House stacks the burgers with precious little interval between them - no lettuce, no tomato, no onions.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/U_of_T_Graduate_House.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/U_of_T_Graduate_House.JPG
ganjavih
Senior Member
Archivist
Senior Member
The Bell Building is the building I most love to confound people's notion of heritage with. Cruising down the Don Valley with an uninitiated soul, I fire off, "See that building there, that's heritage!". Never fails to gain a reaction.
I like it, too, though in the end.
I like it, too, though in the end.
speedyg18
New Member
The reason I don't like Atlanta is a holistic sense of the word. Office buildings that have poor ground level feeling, little retail. Over half of Atlanta's buildings you can't just walk into and many like SunTrust Plaza are set back from the street as if they want you to stay away. Downtown ceases to exist literally 4 blocks from Peachtree St in any direction. There are some new projects here and there to mix it up, but its still a city in a forest with tract housing and highrises scattered about with no cohesion.
People in Atlanta think they live in the greatest city on earth half the time, but so few seem to understand why they like it beyond cheap stick-home suburbia tract housing and Buckhead... As long as they have a Target and a mall with fine luxuries, and many of them have some (usually protestant evangelical) Jesus to rely on, they seem overconfident in those superficial things. To me those things aren't necessarily much to be proud of, but I disgress.
And then there is Peachtree Center. Ugh.
Ugly on top of ugly.
Bank of America is a fine example of a building that looks incomplete, yet could be beautiful. Then there is the whole fact its in an office park-like environment right next to the 14 lane freeway.
Character isn't Atlanta's strong suit, cheap labor for business and typical American materialism to buy cheap tract homes definately is. Now that the economy for the housing has collapsed its questionable to see if Atlantans can afford their faux-Neiman Marcus lifestyle on $12/hr incomes propped up by housing loans and house trading.
The reason why Atlanta has been so "successful" is that you could own a BMW on $15/hr income by simple financial trickery, and the state government supported the lifestyle, as did our entire national banking system.
Getting $150k loans for a $119k townhouse in Gwinnett County leaves for some impressive cash for not-so-high-rolling income earners. Most people in metro Atlanta make really low incomes relative to the US overall, the cheap labor and cheap costs of living coupled with extremely generous credit is what made Atlanta what it is.
There's a lot that is ugly about Atlanta, being one of the most fake cities in the world is one of them. Its going to become Detroit south by the time I'm old aged, so there's not much love for me to have about the town. When all the toothpick homes built with very bad housing standards start to crumble in 25 years, Atlanta will be in big, big trouble.
BTW, if you want to laugh, watch this real life freak show. Ah, southerners kill me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCh2FXzD6R4
At least only about 20 or 40% of the south (or 90% if you go to a small enough town LOL) is really like that. Still too high a percent for me to care about the character.
But maybe its unfair to Atlanta, because God Warrior came from Louisiana.
This is Atlanta now and in the future for those who know nothing about it, but have plenty of ignorant things to say about it and it's people!!!
3344 Peachtree Condos
New World of Coca Cola Museum
My mom works here. It's the IRS building.
Atlantic Station shopping/ business/ condo complex: The city within a city.
Upcoming Trump Towers Atlanta
panorama
Aquarius Tower. It will utilize wind and solar energy and will be constructed of recycled building materials and use thermally-efficient products
The cranes that are all over Atlanta
Atlanta from Piedmont Park
marcus_a_j
Senior Member
This is Atlanta now and in the future for those who know nothing about it, but have plenty of ignorant things to say about it and it's people!!!
Those above ground parking structures sure are something.
Eug
Senior Member
I'd forgive the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower if it were built in the 1960s, but it wasn't.
Epi
Active Member
I can't believe no one's said it yet...
Toronto Star Headquarters
Toronto Star Headquarters
jaycola
Active Member
I always hated the Rogers Building at Bloor and Mt Pleasant
jks
Continuous Lurker
lol, I LOVE that building. It's like the cathedral of television.
adma
Superstar
Again, folks, it's awkward to offer Toronto-specific examples in a "worldwide" thread...
AGTO
Banned
Not as ugly as it used to be:
jks
Continuous Lurker
Holy crap!! Once it;s completely clad, the thing will look awesome!!
(Secretly I'm sad to see the world's tallest ruin fixed) =P
(Secretly I'm sad to see the world's tallest ruin fixed) =P
Skeezix
Senior Member
Granted it's a thread in the "Rest of the Universe Discussion" section, but Toronto examples are certainly within the scope of the "Ugliest building in the world" topic. As long as it doesn't devolve into a discussion of the ugliest building in Toronto, then it doesn't strike me as either awkward or off-topic.