OMG that's such an aesthetic!
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To be fair, large, low cost apartment blocks tend to look like shit no matter who designed them. You can only repeat a cheap-to-build pattern so many times before it looks bleak and boring.
It's not like there aren't visually intersting examples of the style;
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/1981_BostonCityHall_byLebovich8_HABS_MA1176.jpg/800px-1981_BostonCityHall_byLebovich8_HABS_MA1176.jpg
Your linked example is universally reviled andthere have been tonnes of petitions for it to be torn down.
It looks interesting the first time you see it, and depressing the next 100.
Boston City Hall is a dump and they sadly tore down the most interesting part of downtown Boston to build it (over 200 Victorian commercial buildings including the entire Scollay Square neighborhood).