What's going on with the architecture and urbanism in your country?

I've lived in Dushanbe before (8 years back now) and was shocked to see, how parts of the city have changed ever since. While I get the reasons for some of the transformations (Rahmon wants to dubaify the main streets, there's demand for high-value property, massive construction sector and workforce fairly skilled in construction) some stuff is absolutely wild:

• the Independence Monument and Maidoni Istiklol - at least it's a park, fair enough, but what is that tower/monument? Even the melon building of Hisor is more interesting
• the new presidential palace instead of the old old houses of government, which have been demolished - another presidential palace? Why, when even the smaller houses of government were barely used? What does Rahmon want with another one on top of the 'Palace of the Nation', especially if his own own house is just up the road?
• A pompous new parliament building that looks like an AI-image generated fever dream for a parliament that doesn't do shit? Surely spending the money on the Rogun Dam (even if the neighbours hate it) would've provided more added value

Sure, dictators gonna dictate and all that, but I felt like we've reached peak cheap post-Soviet megalomania in the 2000s already and it's been uphill since, but Rahmon and his clan know how to surprise. On top of that, plenty of beautiful buildings have been knocked down to do this rather than building a new neighbourhood where one-storey shanty towns have stood.

Don't get me wrong, some modern stuff is absolutely excellent, such as the Ismaili Centre for instance, which is a magnificent building. Similarly, the national museum was money well-spent just for the sake of it being a museum, but still.

What's going on in your city? Anything you like or dislike happening currently with regards to urban transformation, building or lack thereof?