Locals and experts bemoan modern architecture

The major development on Marktgasse (main photograph), which was built by the Jego AG company of Hünenberg, has come in for much criticism, as have other new buildings in the municipality, especially bearing in mind what stood there before.
 
Neither are complaints just from locals, but specialists in their field, too, such as Thomas Baggenstos, president of the Zug Building Forum, and Rosmarie Müller-Hotz, former professor of town planning at the Hochschule Rapperswil, who have both spoken of an "optical loss of identity and bland uniformity of the townscape".
 
Not far away is another building which has come in for criticism, in particular for its flat roof and façade, which is more like what would expect from the rear of a building, not the front, not to mention the coloured pillars and the silver ventilation pipe, which is there to take the smells away from the Vegimundi vegetarian restaurant on the ground floor. What makes this all the worse is when one thinks what was there before, a charming 400-year-old house known as Haus Büelegg. In fact its core dated back a further 200 years.
 
What is surprising is that this delightful house (as can be seen in the top of the second photograph) was never actually designated a listed building as too many alterations had been made on it. Furthermore, it would have cost more to renovate it than demolish it and construct a new building.
 
What is disconcerting is that two other old buildings in Baar, namely the Huber Schmiede (smithy) and Milk Cooperative are equally not listed. Will they share the same fate as Haus Büelegg? Time will tell.