I am starting to think that it’s impossible for North Americans who have never travelled to Europe or Asia to to understand how bland everything is here.
Modern architecture and modern art have a lot in common: they are mostly crap that is more concerned with the “artist” making a “statement” than actually being good, interesting, or aesthetically pleasing.
Certainly the earliest structures built by European settlers paid homage to the classic styles. But that period was all too brief and was rapidly replaced by the utilitarian, modern rectangles we’re all familiar with and that are the same the world over.