The Trouble with Painting Architecture!

I try and try, but I just can't seem to paint architecture! I haven't given up, but it's frustrating and I need to find a different way to work. I tried working on two scenes with buildings this weekend in oil, and both were fails.

Today, I got out the pastels and zoomed in on one of the scenes to exclude the building and just show the hanging laundry.

"Laundry Day", 8x8, pastel on UArt 500