While not hideous (let's call it...unorthodox), this boxy building seems to be straddling the old and new architectural trends found throughout Bucktown and other quickly developing Chicago neighborhoods: If new condos [1] are your guide, bricks seem to have become passe, passed over for masonry and glass. But here at the intersection of North Leavitt Street and West McLean Avenue (just north of Armitage Avenue), brick, glass and stone are jumbled together into cubic confusion. The materials look less contemporary (compared to, say, this [2]), but the design most certainly is. The sunken balconies next to (what I assume is) a false chimney are odd, but what I can't stop wondering is: How exposed do these people feel to the world? The second-floor natural light must be a fine winter tonic, but perhaps less so when the residents meet the casual gazes of passing pedestrians. I don't see any curtains.