There is something odd going on in Calgary. Specifically in the single family residential redevelopment market. We are noticing that Modern and Contemporary design is often reduced to a handful of tricks and licks. The must-have horizontal window or the odd offset single slope roof, the blocky lines, the flatness of form and veneered substance. We are getting weary and alarmed at all of the wallpapering of aesthetics. Behind these designs there is such a lack of understanding