Boxy, modern-looking, 'cookie-cutter' apartment buildings have been popping up across American cities in recent years. Why do they all have to... Why do so many new apartment buildings look the same?

The real estate man was complaining about the lack of modern architecture downtown ... at the Residences Water Square, a new luxury apartment tower at the site of the former Joe Louis Arena ...

The suburban village hall that built new houses when nobody else would is getting into the apartment ... buildings, drawn up by Chicago architecture firm DesignBridge, "look sleek and modern ...

And it’s hard not to notice that most new apartment buildings look pretty much the same. They’re usually four to 10 stories tall and boxy with splashes of color or balconies here and there.