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The building I work in (USA) is one of those new super ugly and weird cheap gentrification-vibe-buildings that’s like half brick and that weird corrugated metal stuff kinda slapped on in random places and the porch/deck things that are just like black square rectangles. They call it “mixed use residential” because there’s apartments and also a fancy Sicilian restaurant (that I work in) and an investment firm, used to be a clinic that’s now a real estate office, weird ass Montessori school. Oh, and they’re building an identical one right across the street right now. There’s a new hotel by one of the well known rich dudes in town that’s the exact same style of corrugated metal sheets dispersed randomly on the outside walls. It’s so ugly.
So answer to your question, yes commie blocks are better, and America is attempting to emulate them in the most hyper capitalist McMansion way possible
Most new construction these days is so good damn ugly. They threw up some new high-rise in my city a couple of years back. It is square (apparently the only shape taught in architecture school these days), way too tall, and clad in brown sheets with windows slapped on at random all over the place. Because fucking up the where the windows go is about the only tool in the box for architects to impart soul onto the oversized refrigerators they keep putting up.
I kinda of like cheap concrete construction from the latter party of the 20th century better. It is not exactly pretty but at least it is honest.