I never understood why Frankfurt is so fond of its unimaginative "cubes". Probably because of its inferiority complex to Manhattan, seen everywhere as "Mainhatt

I never understood why Frankfurt is so fond of its unimaginative "cubes". Probably because of its inferiority complex to Manhattan, seen everywhere as "Mainhattan". I recently looked over at skyscrapercity and every single interesting skyscraper architecture was completely purged from initial proposal in favor of another bland cubed building. And their architects are proud of it. No curves like you see in Dubai or in Hadid works, no rich variations like in Shanghai, just stupid rectangular buildings maybe with the middle section rotated slightly to be "interesting". Like they were so proud of all the eyesores from 50s and 60s so that they would love to keep them forever. I'd rather see a worthy older facade than to look at buildings that ever looked good only on paper and whose materials caught dirt after a single year and looked like from Borderlands ever since.