I'd agree about the first one, which looks a bit of a mess, but I actually quite enjoy the "another example just down the street of a very old building with an

I'd agree about the first one, which looks a bit of a mess, but I actually quite enjoy the "another example just down the street of a very old building with an unhappy juxtaposition" example (I quite like brutalist architecture when done well, and like the juxtaposition there). It's a bit of a shame to me that the Costa frontage has replaced what was presumably a rather nice ground floor though. I think what I mind most is blandness, which is in the third example.