I did not know that. Switzerland would be another example.
Two of the housed I carpentered on at Cerro Gordo in the 1980s were over-built to American standards.
There exists a website by Kate Wagner called
https://mcmansionhell.com/. It's pretty entertaining. It's as much about mis-matched details and massing as low construction standards.
A good backgrounder here:
https://mcmansionhell.com/101
And I see in January she put up a piece on Baffler on ruin porn:
Staring At Hell