Europe has been building modernist and post-modernist monstrosities gleefully for 80 years. Everything is either an aggressively ugly concrete bunker[1], a gen

Europe has been building modernist and post-modernist monstrosities gleefully for 80 years. Everything is either an aggressively ugly concrete bunker[1], a generic cubish cement or brick and glass mishmash[2] or a glass and steel monolith, maybe with extra facets[3]. You just have to look at what the old Imperial Institute[4] was replaced with[5] and the charmless glass box they plugged onto it later[6]. Nearly every building that has been modified this century has gotten unashamedly uglier. Even cathedrals grow tumors. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hove_Town_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hove_Town_Hall [2]: basically any mid rise residential which can be like this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low-rise_flats,_Turves_Green_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1139855.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low-rise_flats,_Turv... to more recent variations on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Low_Rise_Apartments_-_geograph.org.uk_-_977046.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Low_Rise_Apartme... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1903-11-04_front_Imperial_Institute_London.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1903-11-04_front_Imp... [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherfield_Building,_Queen%27s_Lawn.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherfield_Building,_... [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_College_London_down_Exhibition_Road.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_College_Lon...