You are actually right! In the 70s the state decided to restructure Utrecht. A horrible, horrible decision. Lot's of uglyness was built back then. Im a citizen

You are actually right! In the 70s the state decided to restructure Utrecht. A horrible, horrible decision. Lot's of uglyness was built back then. Im a citizen of Utrecht(living in Lombok area). Lombok is on the west of utrecht and big parts of this side of the city are ugly as hell. Lots of concrete. Lot's of ugly buildings which should not have been there. The other side of Utrecht is actually beautiful (although lombok sure is nice as well nowadays!). It still annoys me the first thing you see when entering the city area is all this uglyness. Can't wait until this huge project is finished somewhere in 2020. (The project is called CU2030, but it is a marketing term, which means something like: CU Too in 030. WTF) The current project restores water but also removed some ugly buildings. They also rebuild the central train station, which is much better now. I hope we still like (most) of the new architecture after 30 years (or will history repeat?).