To see the city from the distance that the building provides "is to be lifted out of the city's grasp... [The viewer is] an Icarus flying above these waters, he can ignore the devices of Daedalus in mobile and endless labyrinths far below. His elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. [...] the city is experienced only as an image, an "optical artefact", captured and bounded by "the imaginary totalizations produced by the eye."