the Tower is supposed to be 320 metres high – about ten metres higher than The Shard in London and 130 metres higher than Turning Torso in Malmö, sweden. The plans include a total of four high-rise buildings in a town as big as 88 soccer fields, reports Danmarks Radio P4 Midt og Vest.
It says the technology and environment committee in Ikast-Brande, a municipality with just over 30 000 inhabitants in the middle of the jutland peninsula, unanimously yes. The committee chairman says, to assume that the project gets the green light also of the finance committee and finally by the city council in the next few weeks.
have investigated whether the building would constitute a barrier in any way, but has no comments.
Behind the project is the Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, the founder of the clothing chain Bestseller.
The four tallest buildings in the whole of Europe is in Russia, where the maximum is Lachta center in Saint Petersburg (462 metres).
