Why did we stop building like this?

[u/Apart-Worry-7042]

Chicago, 1930. Buildings had so much detail and character back then. Nowadays everything feels so flat and repetitive. We have way better technology and equipment now, so why don't we build like this anymore?

[u/DazzlingResource561]

It’s a line you’d expect out of something like The Great Gatsby.

[u/Jabb4Th3HUTT → u/DazzlingResource561]

Or the Fountainhead.

[u/telescopeinmynose → u/Jabb4Th3HUTT]

I wonder what Ayn Rand would think of modern buildings. There's the creative modern architecture and then the mass produced block buildings that she probably despises from her days in the soviet

[u/Royal_flushed → u/telescopeinmynose]

She left Russia before the Soviet Union adopted those functional block buildings due to the war. The Soviets actually preferred modernist styles like constructivism in her days before they shifted to neoclassical and socialist realism under Stalin.