Is the morphology of a contemporary detailed gabled terrace possibly frightening to the local community due to its ‘pointedness’? Are we bizarrely hearing that that a pointed gabled roofline equates to teeth of say The Angriest Dog InThe World? This is popular criticism, hewn through ‘design police’ panel review, gone barking mad. Nonetheless, architects need to deal with populist-morphological criticisms (for example: Zaha with her Doha stadium genitalia detaglia). In the 048per_ public planning review a few years ago I heard that our design of what appeared to be crooked house equated a crooked owner. Dezeen in its review of  a community centre in Germany with its “golden zigzagging roof” on other hand has more tooth for a gabled architecture. The design democracy of panel review can sometimes lead to criticism which whilst socially inclusive is too basic. Design by democracy. However I do agree that Architecture can soften the popuist-blow of what might be, that is Passive – Aggressive architecture, with ‘softer’ means. A hand drawing representation! 
Robin Evans talked about the emotional content of a hand drawn line over that of a CAD. Fluffy dogs, like the internet meme doge, apparently don’t bite.

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