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Newmarket Health Centre getting attention for its 'manhood'

The Newmarket Health Centre. Photo via imgur.

Newmarket, Ont., is making headlines this week — for a building built in 1951.

But thanks to a Google satellite image of the Newmarket Health Centre, people are looking at the building in a whole new — ahem, “revealing” — way.

U.K. news outlets were the first to discover that the bird’s-eye view of the facility appears to show a spread-eagle, anatomically correct male.

A gazebo structure built between the building’s “legs” is what’s triggering most of the giggles.

“The Newmarket Health Centre in Ontario, Canada ‘bares’ an uncanny resemblance to a spreadeagled man – complete with swinging manhood,” reported the Express.

A photo of the building even ended up in Playboy.

Locals believe the building’s shape is an accidental one. But is it?

We’d go straight to the source, but, unfortunately, the Region of York, which owns the building, has been unable to track down the centre’s original architect.

When asked by reporters if the region would consider altering the building’s design now that it’s “naked man” shape has been exposed to the world, officials declined to comment on the building’s attention-getting architecture, and remained focused on what actually matters: community members’ health.

“The Region…will continue to pay more attention to providing high-quality services and support to the residents within the Newmarket Health Centre,” said spokesman Patrick Casey.

This isn’t the first “accidental” phallic image from the GTA to make headlines this month.

A few weeks ago, TTC officials removed a map of Downsview station after Torontonians pointed out that the image was looked incredibly phallic.

TTC spokesman Brad Ross admitted that, while the map is “true to (the) architectural drawing of the station,” the map had failed to follow the approval process before it was posted.

"There’s an approval process for signage and maps and in an effort to expedite things, to get the job done as quickly as possible, the process was not followed in this case," he said.

Following the removal of the signs, Ross tweeted an image of a Downsview station pin with the caption:

“Good morning, Toronto. Today, featuring the naughty Downsview station.”