But it's disheartening if the only high structures that endure are those built for aristocrats.
This was an air-conditioned, 6 ft. high structure of cages, arranged in 6 layers and supplied with running water.
Some rebuilding officials said they thought that too many people would be nervous about the safety of such high structures.
An exquisite 50-meter, or 160-foot, high structure, the Mahabodhi temple is an architectural marvel built of bricks.
Designed in partnership with Stephen Lamb, founder of South Africa based green design firm Touching the Earth Lightly, the Solar Revolution Pavilion is a 200 sq metre, 6-metre high structure built of 1,600 plastic vegetable crates containing reused plastic bottles.
Digging down between the railway line and mechanics' workshops where the Tiber winds its way north out of Rome, archeologists found the remains of a 45ft high structure fronted by four columns.
Two Spanish eco-protesters - who called themselves Bibi and Dany - came down from the apex of the 135 metres high structure more than 30 hours after they had entered the site, on the South Bank, with eight other protesters.
The British Airways i360, a 162-metre high structure in Brighton costing nearly £50m, is the brainchild of the architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, and is a reprise of the bold entrepreneurial formula that made them famous when they created the London Eye.
Alongside the all-weather ski slope, there will be a climbing wall to scale the 80m high structure, and a grass area on the roof for visitors to picnic on and enjoy the view over Copenhagen.
And engineers have defended the soundness of the dam despite the discovery of fissures in the 60-foot high structure., located in Yichang in the central province of Hubei.
