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Caledonian Road is interesting because it speaks to some of the reasons for bad building more generally - a half-arsed nod toward preserving some pretty generic 'heritage' in such an inept way that spoils both the 'heritage' and the development. Also there seems to be a special category of crapness reserved for student housing.

Which brings us to Port Meadow. Such cack-handed offerings as this in a sensitive site is one of the reasons why people resist development in general.

I don't think it's fair to call the Avant Garde one over-scaled, when you consider the social and environmental contexts, rather than just the built context. It's a sustainable place to put housing and a great area to live in.

The Redcar one is clearly the worst building just considering the thing in itself... possibly ever. I was going to say that the fashion for building some preposterous tat to drive some frivolity-led regeneration effort had run its course now, then noticed the image with the Orbit at the Olympics, so possibly not.