visual art (thoughts) - continued

A highrise building, being so tall, so ostentatious, so visible - to design it as visual art seems arrogant - a huge piece of sculpture. As the size of a sculpture increases, the feeling of arrogance increases - we can think about the statue of Nebuchadnezzar, or even the large portraits of contemporary dictators hung in public squares. It speaks of over-achievement, a striving of one over many or of the powerful over the weak. (-does it?) To design huge buildings as visual art is condescending and of bad taste. The best sculptors would not do it. The question is then, how does one design a tall building?