Architecture without the WW's

I'm not very well versed with the various competing styles prior to the onslaught of WW1 aside from how BauHaus was already gaining traction, but butterflying away any major military conflict with the size of OTL's WW's, what architectural styles were there to be put on a pedestal aside from movements emphasising the shapeless, formless, efficiency-obsessed sides of the art?

What would our cities look like?
 
Art Deco ended with the outbreak of WW2 OTL. It's my pick for a style that would have lived on without the war. You'd see more skyscrapers like the Empire State Building, at least into the 40s and 50s. Assuming that the economy prospers in the 40s/50s, Art Deco houses might have been popular as well. The style would have evolved, as we saw in OTL with the Streamline Moderne style, which is similar to Art Deco in some ways.

Bauhaus and the other blocky "form follows function" styles like International Style existed before the war, so those would have continued to exist.

More so than WW2, I think avoiding WW1 would have made cities look very different today. Bauhaus might never have caught on. Houses would be continue to be in pre-war styles like colonial and neoclassical.
 

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Bauhaus and the other blocky "form follows function" styles like International Style existed before the war, so those would have continued to exist.
But would (hopefully ??) never developed into these crimes against humanity like the example below
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or similar "living machines" a la Corbusier and the like.
 
If are not the WWs, maybe the cities today would be more in a Art-Deco style, and (hopefully) without the box buildings. Are today the major cities would be something like this?

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Bumpish...

I'm wondering if there's any environmental issue(s) involved. That is, skyscrapers being different shapes or colors, or having smaller windows, & such, to reduce their heating/cooling load for the AC system, or to change the "heat island" effect(s). I'm picturing windows being little more than viewslits on the outside, with a periscope-like arrangement of mirrors to make the inside view as large as as bay window (something I've read about, but don't ask me how it works...).

I'm also wondering if new materials bear on it. A few years ago, I heard about a kind of "superdrawn" plastic that was stronger than steel. Could something like that affect construction? Or what about building cladding? Using hollow terracotta, instead of brick, say?
 
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