The next tallest building in the world, dubbed The Bride (pictured), is set to rise in Iraq’s Basra Province, reported the Business Insider.
Conceptualised by AMBS architects and commissioned by the Basra government, the complex comprises four 604-storey conjoined towers totalling 16.6 million sq ft. A 616-foot antennae will be placed on top of the tallest tower, which will stand at 3,780 ft.
This makes The Bride significantly taller than both the present record-holder – the 2,723 ft tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and the future 3,307 ft Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia.
A glazed canopy, or ‘veil’, will also cascade down the towers, providing shade for the ground-floor developments at the complex. These will include parks, hotels, gardens, retail spaces and a rail network specifically for the complex.
The architects aim to make the development ‘net zero’, which means it could generate enough energy for its consumption.
Touted as the world’s first ‘vertical city’, the tower will be built in the middle of the desert in order to preserve the fertile farmland around it and avoid urban sprawl, the architects said.
Locals call Basra ‘the bride of the gulf’, which was the inspiration for the project’s name.
Romesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
