I have always looked up to St Petersburg because of the way they withstood the 900 days siege and because of the cultural life of the city. If the leaders of industry there can ignore the history of this fine city , by proposing a very tall building in the centre of the fine old city, then we must all wonder about them . In "the West" and especially the "English speaking world" we have had many of our fine old cities like London spoilt by inappropriate tall glass and steel buildings out of character with the existing low height cities. At least Paris and Rome have had the foresight and intelligence to prevent this problem and perhaps St Petersburg could do the same?.