Ugliness hits FSJ in new ways.
My hometown of Fort St. John isn't a great place of architecture. It's an oil town through and through and with the mass produced housing that is spattered around the city, you'd be hard pressed to find any buildings that inspire pride in your city. I mean we have a fucking oil derrick near our central park as a pseudo monument to the Energetic City.
To basically say, the architecture in the city ranges from dilapidated to plain. Nothing stands out entirely and if there is anything noteworthy, it's because it's more akin to the norm of the big city than that of something truly exciting. One of the landmarks is the Co-Op supermarket, that's been around since I've been born and was one of those staples in the city that really makes feel like a small town. It's almost like a close-knit store I don't know why. It never really differed itself from any other supermarket other than being a co-op, and yet there is something wholesome and less cold comparing it to the Overwaitea or the Safeway. It had closed down a few weeks ago and apparently pre-empting it's closure for a while, the management of the actual mall decided it'll be a great idea to slap in a Caberet in the building.
I'm not against the caberet. The building itself is supposed to go through an entire overhaul on the outside. But before anything was even started on the building itself, they decided to put up the monstroncities below.
Postively lovely aren't they? It's like someone shot and skinned a log cabin and put it's carcass on disply for everyone to see. It's bad enough that it's wood against concrete, but it doesn't even line up with top part wiht the roof. I swore that when I saw it in it's completeled state as of now...I thought they were still under construction. Apparently panes of glass are to go into the triangular parts. That sounds completely terrible.
From another angle it still looks terrible. I do have some feelings of vertigo when looking at them from close up really. Like I'm about to fall off the top of it. There's something unnerving about the openness of the structure, but I guess it works. They will eventually add some stuff on the outside of the building to make it match the....whatever the fuck they are. However if this is a glimpse of what is to come, it makes me worry about how shitty it'll look like.
To basically say, the architecture in the city ranges from dilapidated to plain. Nothing stands out entirely and if there is anything noteworthy, it's because it's more akin to the norm of the big city than that of something truly exciting. One of the landmarks is the Co-Op supermarket, that's been around since I've been born and was one of those staples in the city that really makes feel like a small town. It's almost like a close-knit store I don't know why. It never really differed itself from any other supermarket other than being a co-op, and yet there is something wholesome and less cold comparing it to the Overwaitea or the Safeway. It had closed down a few weeks ago and apparently pre-empting it's closure for a while, the management of the actual mall decided it'll be a great idea to slap in a Caberet in the building.
I'm not against the caberet. The building itself is supposed to go through an entire overhaul on the outside. But before anything was even started on the building itself, they decided to put up the monstroncities below.
Postively lovely aren't they? It's like someone shot and skinned a log cabin and put it's carcass on disply for everyone to see. It's bad enough that it's wood against concrete, but it doesn't even line up with top part wiht the roof. I swore that when I saw it in it's completeled state as of now...I thought they were still under construction. Apparently panes of glass are to go into the triangular parts. That sounds completely terrible.
From another angle it still looks terrible. I do have some feelings of vertigo when looking at them from close up really. Like I'm about to fall off the top of it. There's something unnerving about the openness of the structure, but I guess it works. They will eventually add some stuff on the outside of the building to make it match the....whatever the fuck they are. However if this is a glimpse of what is to come, it makes me worry about how shitty it'll look like.
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