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953 Balmoral Road
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Address: 953-959 Balmoral Road
Municipality: Victoria
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#81 aastra

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Posted 10 June 2023 - 11:27 AM

No doubt, but that woefully bleak esthetic which presents blankness toward the street seems to be a requirement for these kinds of developments. The buildings tend to be very prominent, very bleak, and an all-around poor fit for their architectural surroundings. Does anyone remember back in the day when Victorians would plaster the weasel-word "inappropriate" all over any development, regardless of what it looked like? Politics and the dictionary definitions of words have never mixed very well.

 

Seriously, Balmoral is a frustrating street to walk along. You can easily see how it still coulda/shoulda been a beauty even now, but you can also easily anticipate more blunders to come.


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#82 Nparker

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Posted 10 June 2023 - 12:14 PM

When socialism meets architecture the result is much as you'd expect: dreadful.



#83 Biro

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Posted 09 August 2023 - 08:01 AM

Panel installation just started. Civil connections underway.

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#84 Nparker

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Posted 09 August 2023 - 08:08 AM

This is a turd of a building.


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#85 HarrisonGreene

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Posted 25 August 2023 - 04:56 PM

It appears to be made out of Duraflame.
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#86 lanforod

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Posted 25 August 2023 - 06:56 PM

This is a turd of a building.


Shame on you, don’t insult turds!
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#87 GaryOak

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Posted 25 August 2023 - 07:36 PM

Looks much better than a shantytown.

#88 Mike K.

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 06:51 AM

Victoria, 2013: “Welcome to the beautiful City of Gardens!”

Victoria, 2014: “Victoria is too perfect,” says new mayor Lisa Helps.

Victoria, 2023: “Looks much better than a shantytown.”

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#89 aastra

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 10:30 AM

I think the point is, if you don't like looking at shantytowns then you have no excuse not to walk a few blocks over to Balmoral so you can look at this building instead.



#90 Nparker

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 10:34 AM

Surely no one believes this lackluster structure on Balmoral is going to end the nightmare on Pandora.



#91 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 10:38 AM

You’ll just be lucky if it’s not another 844 Johnson.

#92 aastra

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 10:46 AM

 

Surely no one believes this lackluster structure on Balmoral is going to end the nightmare on Pandora.

 

But what if the design were a bit flashier? It just might do it, you think?


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#93 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 10:56 AM

The windows look sufficient to shoot BB guns from.
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#94 aastra

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 11:06 AM

I think this program is doing something right re: distributing things around, but I also think the individual buildings are a bit too large, they're not dispersed widely enough, the pressure is still being inordinately placed on downtown and the very central neighbourhoods for no logical reason whatsoever, and the esthetic of the buildings themselves generally isn't doing anyone or any of the neighbourhoods any favours. (But I give a point to the building on Meares Street for having a design that seems a bit less conspicuous than the others.)

 

The risk (or, if you prefer, the intention) would seem to be the normalization and ongoing accommodation of an ever-worsening situation in perpetuity. I find myself asking the same question I've been asking throughout this saga. How much would be too much? How many of these buildings can the designated CoV neighbourhoods absorb before they've absorbed too many? What's the point of no return?



#95 Nparker

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Posted 26 August 2023 - 11:22 AM

...the intention...would seem to be the normalization and ongoing accommodation of an ever-worsening situation in perpetuity...

I am more convinced than ever this is the intention.


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