Thread with no comments looked lonely, but yeah, fuck these guys.
Was there some Islamic sect that once rejected buildings over X height? Maybe around early modern times?
On topic because I thought it was somewhere in the north half of Africa, but that didn't help me google it up. All I have is that very vague memory of learning of it.
I think I mentioned here at some point that the Sultan of Oman has banned all buildings over seven stories tall? But I don't think that's a religious thing, he just doesn't like them.
One of the Medway towns - Rochester? - had a bylaw setting a maximum height and when Marconi-Elliott wanted to expand its R&D lab there some time in the sixties it turned out to have been put in force in case the Dutch fleet bombarded the place again.
I like to think that the logic was "you know how you duck when a cannonball goes past, so it misses you? We should build the entire town pre-ducked."
It's the building towards the bottom of this (and, astonishingly, still doing its thing): https://rochesteravionicarchives.co.uk/about-us/history-elliott-brothers/