But these are not mediaeval times, and the city is now meant to be a place for its citizens to enjoy as much as live and work in. Most people sense an ownership of sorts in the common places that we all share. The Grollo Tower was designed to be about 560 metres high. If we take the view that buildings are like Olympic events, the tallest wins, then it loses. But architecture is not a game.
Architecture is artefact.
Architecture is a complex organism, part of the human condition, the form that humans build to inhabit for themselves. I believe future architecture will be the opposite of the Grollo Tower. Architecture is space, but the concept of space has changed over the past decade or more. Space is virtual rather than actual. We can choose to live and work anywhere in the world and yet operate from a central place somewhere else.