A One-Storey Skyscraper.

Check out Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. I heard that it is a bit annoying because all the paintings look crooked.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Guggenheim_Museum.html

Been there! Drove the wife nuts. We decided he was smoking something at that time.

Segways instead of escalators and skateboards for downward travel?

Can't escape the need for elevators as it's a "Long Long Way to Tipperary" even with moving walkways. I think they would end up with more problems than well established elevator engineering. Walkway belts a big problem due to curvature and limited length for practical reasons. Results in frequent change of 'trains' (belts.)

May I assume this is someone's "Pipe Dream?" As in opium?

"Do nothing simply if a way can be found that is complex and wonderful" applies here!

I just completed re-reading the entire piece and couldn't determine if it was the product of the delirious rantings and ravings of a demented mind or a mental exercise, (MM), by an architect for architects who have too much time on their hands.

The whole idea creates more problems that it solves. Architects, or perish the thought engineers, who come up with such hare-brained ideas should be condemned to live in or with them as the case may be.