Modern Towers vs. the Tower of Babel: What's the Difference?

Now oil rich Azerbaijan wants to enter the world stage with building the world's tallest building. It is going to be located in a new Baku city in the Caspian Sea with manmade islands and 150 or so bridges to serve up to a million people.





Then there is the Burj Khalifa  [829.84 m 2,723 ft] is presently the world's tallest manmade structure in the world in Dubai,  United Arab Emirates. Officially opened Janurary 2010. It had a 1.5 billion price tag. Unfortunately for it''s financial backers it opened up during a recesion. According to Wikipedia ten months after grand opening, 825 out of 900 apartments in the tower were still empty.



Abraj Al-Bait Towers overlooks Mecca, Saudia Arabia at a height of 601 metres (1,972 feet). The large four faced clock is the largest in the world and can be read from 16 miles away. Loaded with LED lighting and speakers it is going to announce to the areas Islamic faithfuls when it is time for each of the five daily prayers. The biggest, tallest hotel it will be able to accomadate 100, 000 people for annual Hajj. Price tag: 15 billion.  Still under construction by Saudi BinLadin Group.


 
Taipei 101 in Taiwan has a 106 floors (five underground) to stand 509 m, 1,670 ft. Price tag 58 billion to achieve high technology standards  to withstand typhoon winds and earthquakes and to be the world's tallest "greenist" building.


So what is the difference with today's building ambitions and yesteryear's Tower of Babel. I am not faulting any of the above buildings or their founders as any guiltier than the other mammoth projects being constructed or that have been built. I just would like to know if it is a different motive than that for the building of Babel's Tower?  What was the message we are suppose to learn from that ancient story? Please leave comments if it strikes you to.

Here is the story from the Bible:
Genesis 11:1-9

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.