Personally, I think we ought to incorporate more art, motifs and symbolism in our buildings nowadays.
I used to really like the ideal of "less is more", but now I think it's a bucket of shit. Nobody knows how to do it right any more, and we should start a NEW modern style rather than the 1950-80's crap that people still call "modern"
It's lazy people with NO imagination WHATSOEVER that like the less is more junk because it's an easier, cheaper design.
It's not modern, it's ugly mementos from the 20th century, when style and beauty nearly died in architecture. I say NEARLY, because there are a few good buildings from that period, but not many.