Everyone complains about the aesthetics, and I feel it too, but I have no idea what they should do. The surface treatments on these buildings have a lot of vari

Everyone complains about the aesthetics, and I feel it too, but I have no idea what they should do. The surface treatments on these buildings have a lot of variety and aesthetic interest, with many colors and textures. They often add other physical variety with outset and inset portions of the building. It's not uncommon to have different shapes at the roofline. I can't think of historical apartment buildings that are any more interesting or pleasant if you look at them objectively. And yet... there is a kind of tedium to them. Some of that is just efficient use of space, they tend to go up in very rectangular blocks. Maybe that's just the inevitable reaction to the most common new structure of our time.