The new wave of plans approved for Sydney “are mediocre at best, and often simply ugly. Instead of ‘living’ they are creating a rather ‘dead’ city, endorsing undesirable development, particularly on small blocks. Rising like smoke stacks through the city fabric, they diminish the order and clarity of Sydney streets as enunciated in city council urban policy. Some show an ignorance of the most elementary textbook design principles, such as continuation of facades, cornices, roofscapes, consistency of fenestration, and pattern use of compatible materials. – Sydney Morning Herald