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Minecraft - Azerbaijan Tower

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Something I've been working on for the past week, the proposed Azerbaijan Tower.
Scale is 1:5 of the proposed structure.
Want to see me to build more proposed/canceled skyscrapers? Let me know!
Update: now fully complete.

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The Azerbaijan Tower is a proposed megatall skyscraper intended to be located in the Azeri capital of Baku. Azerbaijan, a country of nine million people & former Soviet Republic, is currently in the midst of an oil boom. Baku is undergoing a massive regeneration effort to shed it's Soviet past by building nearly 30 buildings a year for the next 15 years. One of the centerpieces of this ambitious vision is the Azerbaijan Tower.

Not much is known of this planned project outside the country. What we do know is that it was first put forward in 2012 as part of a new development called Khazar Islands. The tower is intended to be the world's tallest with a height of 1,051 meters (3,448) feet. That would make it 21% taller than the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building. And it would barely surpass the Kingdom Tower which is under construction at present. It's physical design consists of six cylindrical sections forming the entire structure. The estimated cost of the tower is estimated to be a minimum of $2 billion.

There are questions to be asked of the viability of such a project in the country. For instance, Azerbaijan's GDP is $88 billion per annum, roughly a third of Ireland's & a tenth of the Netherlands, according to estimates by the World Bank. The average wage of the working person is around $17,200 per annum, estimated by the World Bank, half of that of Italy. There are even suggestions that the tower may have been cancelled altogether.

If this tower is ever to see the light of day, it would be a mighty symbol of a country that is currently making efforts to join the world's global market. However, there are many obstacles that are to be overcome to make this project real, otherwise it will remain a fantasy, & forgotten.
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TimeyWimey-007's avatar
Beautiful shot. Did you use some kind of rendering program or is it an in-game screenshot?