Jan Gehl and every building on Anzac Parade

I was reading Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl today in preparation for the City Observation assignment and came across these two paragraphs:

I have been complaining recently to other architecture friends of my opinion that the new colourful painted concrete/random facade treatments of basically every recent building on Anzac Parade is an eyesore, or will at least be an eyesore in 10 years when the paint is peeling and every sill has water stains. Its my opinion that the random facade treatments where an orange panel might be juxstaposed to a brick wall to a navy painted wall to a white extrusion are extremely unappealing and a cheap way of trying to inject life and energy into a main transport artery. 

This feeling also applies to the ugly monolithic RSL building next to the Redfern trainstation, which gives almost no concession to the public at ground level. Composed of intruding/extruding panels, some of which are grey, orange and white, the building takes up a massive chunk of sky and is completely out of scale with the surrounding suburb, with the exception of the Police building next to it. It is as though the architect completely ignored what it means for a pedestrian to have real and actual experiential stimulation (cafes, open shopfronts, plantings etc) and simply stuck on a few coloured panels. I feel that the line "coloured concrete and staggered building forms" can be applied specifically to this RSL building. Coloured panels used in an unmeaning way does not create character.