Skyscraper debate is a tall order

London is a flat city. Even from the top of a double-decker bus, you get a good view of its streets and houses. In the next few years, that looks likely to change. If all the new skyscrapers currently planned for the Capital get built, it will start to look like another New York or Hong Kong, where mighty corporate towers loom imperiously over the worker ants at their feet. An exhibition called 'Tower Power' at the Architecture Foundation in London makes that clear. It displays a range of buildings that could turn London into the world's biggest building site. They include both the huge C...