Describe a tall building in your city that you like or dislike

I would like to describe a tall building in my city which I like very much. It is a modern business tower in the centre of the city.

This building is about forty floors high and it is made of glass and steel. It was built about ten years ago and it is one of the tallest buildings in our city. During the day the glass reflects the sun and at night the whole building is illuminated with beautiful lights.

Inside there are many offices of important companies, and on the ground floor there is a shopping centre with cafes and restaurants. On the top floor there is a restaurant where you can see the whole city, but it is very expensive so I have only been there once.

I like this building because it is very modern and it shows that our city is developing. It is a symbol of our economic progress and many tourists take photographs of it.

That is the tall building I wanted to describe.

I'll take one I dislike, because I've got much more to say about it. There's a residential tower near the old market district — about thirty floors, glass, entirely unremarkable in itself.

The trouble is where they put it. Everything around it is three or four storeys, brick, built maybe eighty years ago, and it sits in the middle of that like someone standing up in a cinema. From two streets away it looks fine. From directly underneath it's oppressive — it takes the afternoon sun off an entire square that used to be where people sat, and the wind does something strange around the base, so there's a permanent draught on a street that never had one.

What annoys me most is that it isn't ugly. If it were ugly you could argue about taste. It's a perfectly decent building that would look completely at home somewhere else, and instead it's been dropped into a neighbourhood it has nothing to do with.

I should be fair to it: people needed those flats and the housing shortage here is real. I just think you can meet that need without putting out the lights in a public square.