Carbuncle no more?

Appleton Tower is one of several University buildings which stand like gravestones beside what's left of the fine 18th century George Square which was ruined by modernist developments in the 1960's. For many years, Appleton Tower itself was a seemingly irredeemably hideous monstrosity, with its surface shedding its small decorative tiles like dandruff. It's been redeveloped internally at least twice in the time I've known it, and there have also been ineffectual attempts to improve the exterior. Finally, a proper job has been done, and once nice day from a distance I suddenly realised that it doesn't look too bad. Of course the remnants of George Square look far better, as they will in another 250 years.