By what standards do you judge a skyscraper? Aesthetic? Functional? Ideological? The problem with the high-rise going up in the seaside Athens suburb of Elliniko is that it defies any framework of productive evaluation.

The skyscraper going up on the development of the old Athens airport at Elliniko on the capital’s southern coast has been drawing a lot of comments, many of them contradictory.

By what standards do you judge a skyscraper? Aesthetic? Functional? Ideological? The problem with the high-rise going up in the seaside Athens suburb of Elliniko is that it defies…