Yes the new residential houses are hard-edged bunkers built from randomly connected boxes chosen for function, that fill every last square metre on the block. I

Yes the new residential houses are hard-edged bunkers built from randomly connected boxes chosen for function, that fill every last square metre on the block. It is ugly, aggressive and unsettling to look at. The rare house with a classical interpretation is a godsend to look at. Your eye can actually rest along a well designed set of horizontal lines and a trianglar roof. They are the last refuge of nice curves and shapes that make full use of all three dimensions. The flat and boring cubes randomly mangled together with a single tacked-on feature to show off and some expensive materials that attempt to pass for grace, are the coming wave of babylonian australia that I cant see the virtue in. Painting that stuff purple won't save it.