I don't think so. No building material is as ugly as concrete. It starts ugly and only gets uglier with age as it inevitably discolors and crumbles. There's

I don't think so. No building material is as ugly as concrete. It starts ugly and only gets uglier with age as it inevitably discolors and crumbles. There's really no way to make it attractive. Concrete's raison d'etre famously serves the ugly underside of society -- a factory, a bomb shelter, a pillbox, a prison, a slaughterhouse. And of course, building with concrete is famously more ecologically destructive per sq ft than any other building material. To build with it is to thrust a middle finger at passers by while belting out the Horst Wessel song (the Nazi anthem). No, concrete is inescapably brutalist and devoid of charm at every level. 'Divisive' is far too generous.