(FORTUNE Magazine) – Sony, which laid down $60 million for a seven-acre parcel of wasteland near where the Berlin Wall used to stand -- and not far from the site of Hitler's bunker -- is unhappy with the city of Berlin's development plans for the area. They limit the height of new buildings to 115 feet, about ten stories. The plans also impose a squat style that reminds some of Nazi architect Albert Speer's grand design for Germania, Hitler's dream city. Sony considers the look unbefitting Germany's future capital, let alone the company's vision of its new European headquarters. Says Rainer Wagner, head of Sony's Berlin subsidiary: ''Berlin doesn't need us for trivial architecture. Sony's ambition is an architecture that is spectacular, that draws visitors from around the world like Pei's pyramid at the Louvre.'' Other companies that have bought land in the area feel the same way, among them Daimler-Benz and Swedish-Swiss conglomerate Asea Brown Boveri. The taller its structure, the better Sony's view will be of the Brandenberg Gate, half a mile to the north, and of what remains of Hitler's bunker, a mound of earth 440 yards to the northeast. That piece of property remains unsold. The government has yet to decide what to do with it.