Azerbaijan to build the highest skyscraper

Our southern neighbor, Azerbaijan, intends to break the Arab countries on the scale of its ambition of building. By 2018, will be built near Baku Azerbaijan Tower, which will overtake the current champion of Burj Khalifa in Dubai (UAE) and the future Kingdom Tower in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). The height of the "Azerbaijan Tower" at 50 meters exceeds kilometer. The creators did not hide the fact that the source of inspiration for them were the projects in Dubai. But their more grandiose plans. The tower will be the center of the city on artificial islands Khazar Islands. The city is located in the Caspian Sea at a distance of 4-8 kilometers from the shore. The authors of the project, the city will take on the water area of ​​30 thousand square meters. Two-thirds of this area - residential buildings, the rest - business centers, shopping and entertainment facilities, parks, the world's longest boulevard length of 150 kilometers, restaurants, yacht club, equestrian, golf and tennis, and even trails " Formula 1 ". Construction, which began last year, to be implemented in stages over 25 years. Another impressive figure: the total cost of the construction of a grand city will be about $ 100 billion.