Trellick Tower

Listing to port, I would have thought.

But better a dirty veneer than a coloured eyesore.like this, for example.

1. Not if that's the front of the building. Anyway, no one who lives in such a place drinks port.

2. The orange may contain Vitamin C, and at least, for now, it's jolly rather than dreary.

You have strange taste if you find that jolly. To me, it is visual clutter, accentuating windows that are not worthy of such emphasis. I prefer dreary to screech.

You're right. Jolly is how the architect/planner wants it to seem, not how I myself find it. There's a new motel near here - www.hilton.com/en/hotels/loneahx-hampton-london-ealing - and from the outset I found it an extreme visual irritation. The colourful embellishment is more in keeping with a funfair in a decaying seaside resort than a London suburb.