Setting the bar higher

This was an answer that fuelled their imaginations to design something bigger and taller than anything in this part of Europe or even in Western Europe. A 310m tower (including the spire) is to be developed next to Central Station. We will be able to gaze down at the world from a terrace 230m above the ground. Today it is possible to go up to the viewing terrace on the thirtieth floor of the Palace of Culture and Science (114m above-ground), just a couple of hundred metres away from the building site. The panorama is impressive, particularly if you work in a tenement building every day, as I do, rather than on the top floor of an office tower. It is mostly visited by tourists and parents with their children so they can take in a bird’s eye view of the city, and sometimes by... me. Perhaps out of sentiment, perhaps to take a break from everyday life, and perhaps because in this lofty place it is easier to believe that the sky really is the limit. Am I the only one who does this? I