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The viewpoint looks down from a height of several thousand feet
(small aircraft altitude) and across to the horizon, at a complex
building of several hundred stories. It is perhaps two miles tall,
tall enough that there's an occasional cloud here and there at the
corners. But unlike skyscrapers in our civilization, this one is
vastly more complicated, neither square nor round, but at least as
wide and deep as it is tall.

Consider the Bavarian castle Neuschwanstein (Wikipedia has several
great photos). Now, without enlarging any of its features, multiply
them and build more like them on top of them until the desired
dimensions are achieved. It doesn't have to be uniform, there can be
peaks and valleys in the overall structure, and little individual
features to make it interesting.

Now, however, make the entire building out of untinted glass, some
polished, some frosted, so that the whole thing looks like a titanic
sugar confection.

It sits in the middle of an enormous park or greenbelt that _is_
circular in plan. Outside the park is the great worldwide city that is
New Hanover. It features skyscrapers (use things like the Sears Tower,
the John Hancock, Empire State, CommerzBank, and Chrysler buildings,
Tapei 101, the Petronas Twin Towers, 30 St. Mary Axe, the Burj Dubai,
and other modern structures). Pack them all tightly together, and make
the major thoroughfares converge on a circular highway around the
park.

The castle is, to these vast buildings, what a GI footlocker is to
little green plastic toy soldiers.

Put a not-quite hemispherical dome -- a #-field -- over the whole
castle (and maybe the park, I can't decide). Anything that hits it,
birds, aerocraft, bombs, rain, snow, particles of dust, gets vaporized
on contact.

Narrative: The 'Droom of Lia Wheeler, Ceo of the planet Hanover II,
and of the interstellar Monopolity of Hanover.