Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later
Bad example, because President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wanted to improve things and (at least in the end) actually listened to the smartest guy around
interestingly, I can't find any source that says why it's shape like that. Aparently it was always planned to be a radio tower.
there's no water tower functionality or restaurant inside. it's just... like that.
but to answer the question: they rarely are saucer shaped. Most of them are either just antennas, or have some slimmer feature at the top like a sphere or similar
Apparently the Google maps app on ios is very terrible
Friend of mine showed it to me on a quite recent phone and it's super stuttery and laggy when scrolling around