Why can't buildings still look like this?

They can, as long as you pay for them to look like that. Same as ever.

>>18 Aren't we richer than ever? yet we live in soulless commie blocks

its expensive and take a lot of time to build

>>26 they managed to do it, and we are much more technologically advanced yet we create the ugliest things

I think if a satanist cabal didn't control the world and actively reduce the quality of life we would have people with the time, money, and taste for some great architecture.

>>17 women these days would call this misogynistic somehow