Skyscrapers by definition lend themselves to programs that promote the objectifying of the tower – private, corporate entities, residential communities. Growing security concerns seem to exacerbate the problem, and although the erosion of public space is not reduced to this particular typology, it is best exemplified by it. The public represents not an entity responsible for shaping civic space, but a collection of individuals potentially unwanted who need to be filtered by more and more sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance and screening.This proposal is perhaps more of policy making nature than of purely formal nature. Already most cities mandate certain contributions to the community for new buildings, in order to offset any potential negative aspects, in recognizing that a building is as much an act of displacement, of enormous resource consumption as it is a positive act of creation. Budget percentages are allocated for public art and in order to mitigate negative environmental aspects of construction. Just as these aspects are recognized, there needs to be an acknowledgment of the growing encroachment in the public sphere by private interests. The proposal is therefore to mandate a certain allocated space for public functions in a new development.This tower contains discrete sections of enclosed space in a self supporting structural skin to be used as residential and office space. Separations between these segments occur at intervals and are set aside for temporary and seasonal activities – as park, a skating rink, a concert venue, a marketplace. The skyscraper is thus a mixture between a permanent, formal occupation and informal activities.