A Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic thinks Salt Lake City's skyline is "just junk."

Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune got his first taste of the Salty City and dissed some of Utah's iconic buildings.

The LDS Church Office Building:

That looks like the wrong side of the Cold War. It's not just bad to look at, it's probably bad to look out from."

The LDS Conference Building, right, (which some locals have dubbed East German Stasi Headquarters):

It's like fourth-rate modernism. It's terrible.

And Salt Lake's streets that Brigham Young famously ordered be wide enough for a wagon pulled by four wives to turn around?

They feel "distinctively Western and offer mountain views" but destroy any intimacy.

On the other hand he raved about the Salt Lake Temple, "terrific;" the City-County Building, "a solid castle;" the Main Library, "fabulous;" and the newly restored Utah Capitol, "beautiful."