Modern architecture?

I've been looking at my work so far, relating to the city sequence and something is very wrong. I'm still designing a 1950s metropolis. Which isn't what I want to be doing, what I DO want to be DOING is dragging that particular style into the 2000's kicking and screaming.

Based on one of my friends uploaded photos of London on Facebook, I realised this is the kind of thing that I'd been missing. So I did a quick sketch and a test to see if it fit in with the 'shifted outline' look.

I don't think the conversion to block colour and line worked. Never one to give up easily, I persevered further with this idea as this kind of this modern electronic screen billboard and it was the kind of thing which was missing to make my animation seem more modern.
If anyone's curious, the boards say 'Pure Rainbow' in a faux 'Coca-Cola' look, 'Thing' and 'Vague'.

Here is the block colour version, done with felt-tip and marker. It's suggestible, but not quite clear what you're looking at.


Then I found out that this doesn't seem to work at all, which is a shame. The building on the right does, the left building just looks like a confused mess. 'Shame 'bout that.