LEED leading to eyesores?

Sometime, I wonder if the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), that new way of designing and building high performance green buildings and homes, isn't leading to a proliferation of architectural monstrosities?

Up until recently, most of the new construction around Park City had evolved into a rather pleasant and ornate Rocky Mountains style that had its own traits and personality and compared extremely favorably to other mountain architecture found in the Alps and elsewhere.

For the past months however, some of the new houses being built look more like mini-factories than homes you'd want to live in. That's right, the so-called “contemporary style” is making a comeback, one that, like its predecessors, is unlikely to age well but is guaranteed to make a lasting bad impression in the neighborhood...