When I see historical artefacts like these from Persia, I always wonder about the loss of creativity with modern approach of minimalism and optimisation to cost

When I see historical artefacts like these from Persia, I always wonder about the loss of creativity with modern approach of minimalism and optimisation to cost. Our buildings are boxes, houses white and have minimal squarey furniture, and almost everything in society feels like an exercise in optimisation towards cost and resource efficiency. Where are our modern equivalent of marvels like Persians from ~500 B.C !