How can you tell if a building is beautiful architect? You really can't can you? The "beauty" of the building consists of seven elements: Proportions, Scales, Rhythm, Symmetry, Texture, Light, and Color. Each element plays a big role on what the architect might want to be getting across. It's a way of architects to express their concepts and symbolism. Now beauty is a hard concept to grasp, each person has their own concept of beauty and their own opinions. So as, previously mentioned, the viewer is going to have different emotions associated with that building. While one might say the building is beautiful, the other might say it's hideous.
Take the Nemausus 1 Housing Project for example. All of it's units and rooms are perfectly proportioned and scaled. It has a vast amount of light from it's collapsable doors, its walls and rooms create a rhythm: wall, empty space, wall. You can feel its texture of the concrete walls, railings, and metal stairs. The symmetric units are exactly alike, if it were to split in half, and look, each units looks the same. It as contradicting colors of red, grey and yellow. Even though it has all of the seven elements, some might consider it ugly. While others consider it a true beauty. The beauty of a building cannot be actually defined but rather opinionated on. 
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