The Dutch Make Plans for $400 Billion Man-Made Mountain

Sorry Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill. While your quest to keep announcing a new world’s tallest building every five or so years, skyscrapers just aren’t as exciting as they used to be. Instead, this season, constructing a multi-billion dollar mountain where nature didn’t intend one to be is the new modern architectural marvel.

Following the on-again, off-again flirtation in Berlin with building a 1,000 meter peak where Tempelhof airport once stood (it’s since been trimmed down a bit to 60 meters), Building Designer reports

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