I agree with you, and I didn't want to generalize as of course not everything built now is made to be ugly and rotten soon.. probably I should have express it better.

Ugly old buildings that don't exist more, do not also because there was no point in making refurbishment of them since they have no "value" or were not beautiful enough in most cases.

Yes I do agree that luckily in Europe we still can see new projects, infrastructurs and buildings that are not a punch in an eye, and that's probably because it comes from a different culture we live in and are constantly immersed in old architecture, or at least much more often and old than in US for example.

Anyway my comment was more toward the opinion I have about "how" the new structure and architecture are built, so like the materials utilized, and that generally the trend is the one about pushing down the costs and speeding up the production.. but again, this doesn't mean I think everything is made that way. What I am saying is that in this kind of economy to build long lasting and beautiful things needs a vision and projects made for the purpose of creating something "valuable" and not just creating to make fast profits and increase some number in the economy. But again I am not saying this is the only way things are built now.