Seville due to have a new architectual jewel

The daily comments on the architectural project of the financial establishment Cajasol that has chosen to install its head office in a tower 178 metres high due to be finished in 2010. "Seville will thus have a new architectural icon that will break the taboo of the Giralda, the highest reference point in the town (97 metres), and that will be perceived as a symbol of modern times and an alleged modernity. ... However, a sky-scraper does not make a town any bigger or any more modern, just as one swallow does not a summer make. It may even be that Seville is turning to spectacle-architecture too late with it special Babel tower. Indeed, certain modes of thought are currently questioning the role of sky-scrapers in current times that are characterised by climate change and the desire for eco-friendly architecture on a more human scale."

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