Towers of Babel

"Tall buildings go up as the economy goes down, according to the skyscraper index that came to prominence in 1999 in a report penned by Andrew Lawrence, a former researcher at Deutsche Bank," reports this story — Soaring skyscrapers in dark economic times.

The article includes this most diabolical image of a monstrosity that "would be 3.2 kilometers high and, if built, would easily be the world’s tallest building, a title it would probably hold for a very long time:"