Forget about the 1km high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be 50m higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap.
The Azerbaijan Tower will be built on the Khazar Islands, an artificial archipelago that is being built on the coast of the Caspian Sea off Garadag, southwest of Bakou, the capital of the country.
The Khazar Islands will be a $US100 billion city composed by 41 artificial islands. They will cover a 2000-hectare surface. According to the plan, one million people will live in this new “city”.
The developer — some Haji Ibrahim Nehramli, president of the Avesta Group of Companies — is already negotiating with the companies that built the Burj Khalifa. Apparently, construction of the tower will start in 2015. It will be finished around 2019, with a total price tag of $US2 billion.
So yes, this is going to be real. Hell exists and it’s surfacing in the Caspian Sea. [News.az via Architizer]
Adam
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:51 PMI thought Dubai went broke?
Nicholas
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:18 PMA country going broke doesn’t mean all the private entities there are too.
Ben
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:34 PMThis is Azerbaijan (of former Soviet Union) not Dubai. Not even in the United Arab Emirates, different Country.
Adam
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:40 PMSorry, I was never good at Geometry.
Ben
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:52 PMlol geography?
Lillee
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:57 PMHe was right the first time
Graeme
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:49 PMThis is not Dubai but Baku in Azerbaijan in between Iran and Russia. It is also oil rich and supplies most of Russia and eastern Europe.
tickets
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:55 PMhahahaha i haven’t stopped laughing
TestTickles
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM1050km? Are they building a sky elevator?
paul
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM1050km…. really WOW
nate
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM1050km high hey? Sweet, I’ll be able to lean out the window and high 5 the astronauts from the international space station as they go by.
s
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM1050km tall? amazing i say.
Rory
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM1050 Kilometers!?!?!!?!?!?! Slight error in the title
Jazz
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM1050km? Yup, that’s pretty tall.
Hungryhendo
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:56 PMSpace elevator is a go at over a thousand clicks
Deb
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:03 PMAt least it’s better than that phallic building in the picture that’s third from the bottom… ewww..
Ian
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:05 PMsometimes a cigar is just a cigar…
Ozoneocean
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:02 PMAttached to someone’s groin.
Jack
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:17 PM+1 – I genuinely lol’ed.
Turd
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM1050kilometres?? wow !
Timmahh
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:18 PMWorld’s Highest Skyscraper Will Be This 1050km Turd
Turd! really? I realise that the arabs are spending rediculous amounts of money on this sort of thing, and in actuality I don’t necessarily agree with it being built for the sake of it. I really don’t understand why you deride it at all?
Ben
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:39 PMAzerbaijan’s aren’t Arab, you sound really uneducated. :)
Drongo
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:52 PMYou might be mistaking lack of education for retardation
Jaezass
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:31 PMSeriously? What the hell crawled your two arses? Seems like a perfectly logical question to me! Drongo would be appropriate names for both of you…
Antipodean
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:50 PMYeah, cos getting the nationality wrong just blew the whole context of the comment out of the water, hey?
Richard
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:29 AMBecause it’s shit….and relatively pointless?
Alex Kidman
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:18 PMDuly noted, and corrected.
Although, hey, who wouldn’t want to live at 1050km high. Imagine the view!
Just This Guy ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:36 PMWould be awesome except for the pesky oxygen mask requirement every time you want to go out onto the balcony :)
Jubbing
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 8:22 PMOh yes, those cloud’s do look lovely this time of the year….. as for 1050 KILOMETERS high, you’re looking at a tower bumping into the international space station. Probably past it tbh..
chugs
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:19 PM1050km would put it in the exosphere.
the ISS is 410km high so this structure would be higher then the ISS.
gg
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:36 PMYou people ARE aware that Azerbaijan is not actually an Arab country right?…
It’s along the boarder of Europe and Asia.. so Eurasian… kinda…
Sam Timmins
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:39 PMI kind of like the futuristic Space Dildo. But YMMV.
TSH
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:42 PMAfter hearing about how much maintenance needs to go into modern buildings, I wonder whether any of these amazing, huge structures will even be around in 100 years, much less 200. Meanwhile the Great Pyramid shrugs off another century…
JohnHedge
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:54 PMThere are already islands going under the rising seawater and they’re building new ones; madness!
Fred
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:44 PMHoly crap! Name one.
Ammar
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7:25 PMMaldives – a very famous case
theophilus
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:38 PMPut Sherlock on it ! The games afoot.
Richard
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:32 AMalthough if you are building it yourself you can make it higher than 2.3m presumably. That and put it somewhere not prone to tsunamis and the like.
Richard
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:34 AMOr I could read the next comment about it not coming off an Ocean at all.
MD
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:26 PMCaspian sea is 28 metres below sea-level, that gives them a decent head start……(jk)
Not linked to other oceans, therefore not to be affected by a general rise in sealevels (untill some drongo puts a canal through from Iran….)
Also Azerjbainanis are still (Hisorical)Camel Jocks… And they have loads of Oil, but they take umbrage at being called Arabs (as do Persians)
This part of Asia was the Birthplace of Tall buildings and Civilisation as we know it.. (Along the Euphrates) (They are Arabs there) …. So the tall building may be coming home to roost…. (After being in the Arabian Peninsular for a while)
Kiron
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:47 PMfortunately the caspian sea isnt attatched to any oceans
Rawprawn
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:20 PMOne million people and a two land highway in and out…
Damo
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:21 PMwhat could possibly go wrong?!
Stew
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM*Yawn* I won’t be impressed until they cross the 1051m mark.
gg
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:45 PMThis should be the new design for docklands in Melbourne.
Lillee
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:00 PMSeriously, if I were to build a new multi billion dollar tower, I’d want to go at least TWICE as tall as the last one or nothing. 50m is piddly and will be beaten within a year or two. 2000m, now that’s a man-tower
HR
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:02 PMCheck out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_tall_buildings_and_structures for some other monstrosities. In particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_City_Tower
Sure it hasn’t been approved. But man. What a view it’d be.
Spock
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:09 PMI’m telling you, it really was a bad idea to let the arabs have money.
wizard
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:38 PMNo… It was a bad idea to let them have the oil…..
theophilus
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:41 PMWhy ? Did they buy Azerbaijan ?
Jim
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:12 AMMeanwhile in Perth, WA we are still waiting for the foreshore redevelopment! It’s only been 25 years in the making…