Taller grass stems and particularly their flowers stand above their neighbours, so they can be more readily backlit by the low sunlight.
Taller towers and attendant higher-capacity turbines naturally require sturdier bases.
Taller than the versions Mr Serra made for the MOMA show, as well as more elongated—("I wanted to make them better," he says)—these works are at once secretive, magic and forbidding.The long slab of steel with weatherproofing so coated and coloured it resembles a giant painting that dominates the side room is more disconcerting.
When Arnaud Lagardère, one of France's most important press barons and aerospace bosses – and a man who calls himself a "brother" to the president – appeared in a kitsch video declaring his undying love for a Belgian swimwear model less than half his age and a foot taller, it wasn't just seen as a lapse of taste.
A really good suit makes you stand up straighter, walk taller.
Since One World Trade Center reached its full height, when its 408ft steel spire was installed on 10 May, there has been a growing lobby that argued that the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, was actually taller.
It's as though once everyone around you is the same height, you can embrace your inner small person, without any need to pretend you're three inches taller than you are.
"Billionaires' Row" is rising over midtown Manhattan, a collection of glassy new pinnacles that promise the kind of condo views you can get in New York only by building taller than everything else around.
"And a lot of the buildings that are going in are over 40ft (12m)." Since 1984, San Francisco has had a "sunlight ordinance" that requires the parks commission to review any proposed building taller than 40ft that might shadow public parks.
One was so much taller, the other looked so much healthier, the other looked so much more cheerful.
He is about five inches taller than Tyson, yet he would have a similar height advantage if he were being set upon by a tiger.
