Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I'm sick of the production line featureless Mies van der Rohe glass boxes: they are so unimaginative and boring, especially close up.
The Oz glass boxes of the '60s/early '70s were a bit less bland than the ones Mies van der Rohe designed .
At the time, they were all fairly different, & distributed amongst older buildings, rather than enormous, overwhelming groups of basically the same building.
The woodgrain concrete buildings have two virtues over that: the shape can be interesting and they have an interesting texture when walking by them. In the right place, e.g. the South Bank arts complex, they can be quite pleasant to visit.
They might have been improved a bit, but, back then, I found walking past raw, unfinished concrete to be depressing.
Would I want to live in one? No. But then there are many other buildings I wouldn't choose to live in, e.g. the serried ranks of identical rabbit hutches seen in "overflow" towns.
Why do British town planners have this obsession with "mass produced" housing?
The ones in the pix are probably a bit more practical than the old "Coronation Street" type terraces, but they aren't much less sad to look at.
Unfortunately in Oz, smaller building blocks with mass produced houses are being pushed to reduce "urban sprawl".
Though not as horrific as the Brit ones, they are still pretty dire.
They
are detached----you can fit your arm between them! AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!
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