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https://dialogue.earth/content/uploads/2020/05/dsc03273___426666.jpg426180Skyscrapers are costly to erect and permits are tough to get, so why do architects keep trying to go higher? Tall buildings have always been about ego, say Edwin Heathcote and Ed Hammond.