“There are three possible forms of visual art: painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through”. What turns mere construction into architecture is detail.
Detail is something that is missing from nowadays architecture, and detail obviously needs much of an effort, and it is making the difference from our point of view.
The detail is what gives personality and a human dimension to a building, traits that are so much needed nowadays, when everything seems to dissolve in uniformity.