The building is the dragon, the challenge

The rooftop terrace, the goal, the "Observatory", is the gold, the proof.

Reference to laborors describes the building process as inclusive, collective, not quite permissionless but no game is perfect, in other words the villagers.

The executive suite represents responsibility, authority, sovereignty, the loneliest condition, the solo knight.

But the most popular instances of the monomyth describe the transition from laboror (everyman) to executive (hero).