Towers

I recently read about a tower in Dubai that upon completion, will be over 2000 feet in height, over 1,000 feet taller than any previously-built skyscraper. When I read this, I couldn't help but think of a similar middle-eastern tower built in the days before Christ.

In Genesis 11, the Bible never tells us how tall the Tower of Babel was. It only mentions the following:

"Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'"

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563

Hmm. So why is it that God permits the same type of construction of towers today that was not permitted at that time? Was the Tower of Babel of such magnitude that it dwarfed modern syscrapers? It appears that the motives of the former tower builders were the same of many modern-day architects of such behemoths of buildings. Hmm..