Daily Poll 32 for May 27, 2010: Pug Awards Summerside

Here's the thirty-second building up for this year's Pug Awards, for which we hope you will take the time to vote both here and at the Pug Awards' official site. Our take on the Pugs is an experiment to see how our results will compare to the official results. The difference is that the official Pug Awards give you three choices: Love It, Like It, or Hate It. Based on suggestions from our members, we will give you five points along the continuum to register your feelings: Love It, Like It, Neutral, Dislike It, Hate It. Will that be too many options, or will that make voting easier? Please come back on a daily basis to register your thoughts!

Please click on the linked name of the building below to view more images and to read a description of the building and those who had a hand in building it. Please vote at the Pugs, and then come back here and register your UrbanToronto Pug vote too!

Summerside

Who is building this stuff, and why, in the 21st century? All the modern ideologies, styles, technologies and so forth in the world, and we have to resort to tacky junk like this. For one, any effect that they were trying to achieve with the roof is ruined by the chunky mechanical box just to the right. Buildings like this suggest that there isn't even a proper design process practised by many firms nowadays. I could sketch something better while sitting on the toilet; considering that, I don't want to imagine where this was conceived.

I would like to believe that there is a particularly unpleasant subdivision in Hell reserved for people who inflict things like this on cities. A place where all the buildings look like this one.

I fear that they might enjoy spending eternity in trite like this. Rather, those who enjoy this building should be forced to spend the rest of their days in the starkest, most austere modern space imaginable. One considered minimal even on Modernist standards. Now that would truly cause them to go crazy. Life without frivolous pre-cast adornments.