People who bitch about contemporary five-over-one architecture I'm convinced have some degree of last war brain going on. Cause like, in the 60s and 70s it was absolutely true that contemporary apartment bloc architecture was the actual worst dogshit in the entire world and was a hideous blight on every neighborhood where it was built, and even now is only appreciated semi-ironically by the kind of people with a picture of Stalin in their bedroom, or by parking garage aficianados.
But modern apartment buildings are fine. It's just gaily-painted squarish dutch townhouse aesthetics with maybe some postmoderny mixed materials. Literally fine. Other than the parking garage guys literally who has a problem with this.
I love the genre of SF NIMBYs posting a picture of a 5-and-1 going up on their block and saying “look at this monstrosity!!!” and its just a cute wooden building with orange accent panels. Impossible to understand this mentality!
Like I think I’ve seen one of those where I’m like “yeah, that facade is really too busy” and setting aside how it might be permitting processes pushing “articulation”, like, I could make that judgement because from having seen all the other ones that that style could be done better