Denmark will be building western Europe’s tallest skyscraper in a town of 7,000
Fashion company Bestseller’s planned skyscraper in the Danish countryside, seen on a simulation. By Rick Noack Rick Noack Foreign affairs reporter focusing on Europe and international security Email Bio Follow April 1 at 8:12 AM It’s April 1, so there’s a reason not to believe everything you see or hear.
“It will undoubtedly be of the greatest significance for the city of Brande, but I do not doubt it will affect the whole of Central Jutland,” Ib Lauritsen, the mayor of Ikast-Brande, told Danish broadcaster DR. About 170 miles away, in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, residents won’t be able to see the rural tower once it’s supposed to be completed in 2023. But being dwarfed by a town of 7,000 has triggered a somewhat emotional response in this city of 600,000, which recently approved plans for its own high-rises that would also reach far into European skies — just not as far as Brande’s “Eye of Sauron,” as critics on social media are calling it.— Bjarke F.
“Harsh dictatorships seem equally eager to build skyscrapers independent of whether they preside over rural or urban societies,” the researchers wrote. To dictators and authoritarian rulers, skyscrapers are symbols of status and prestige — no matter if constructing them makes economic sense.
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