I understand the concern, but if you think about it a lot of the old brick apartment buildings that came before also looked very similar. There are tons of olde

I understand the concern, but if you think about it a lot of the old brick apartment buildings that came before also looked very similar. There are tons of older brick apartment buildings with stairs up to a covered entrance, the only real differentiation between them is whether they have bay windows or a flat exterior. I completely agree that the new, large, flat, monolithic buildings are not very visually pleasing, but I wonder if two generations from now people will look back at them longingly. Maybe they won't last that long.