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A vast, empty central space becomes the focal promise for something unprecedented, leading to a government-driven plan that includes large-scale leisure, housing, and a signature tower. The story follows an international architectural invitation, where skepticism about the desert is met with escalating fascination as images and research replace assumptions.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nVICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington [vup.victoria.ac.nz](vup.victoria.ac.nz)  \nCopyright © Pip Adam 21013 First published 2013  \nThis book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the permission of the publishers  \nISBN 978-0-86473-898-1 (print)  \nISBN 978-0-86473-956-8 (EPUB)  \nISBN 978-0-86473-957-5 (kindle)  \nNational Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nAdam, Pip.  \nI’m working on a building / Pip Adam.  \nISBN 978-0-86473-898-1  \nI. Title.  \nNZ823 .3—dc 23  \nPublished with the support of a grant from  \nEbook production 2013 by meBooks [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nfor Brent and Tallulah [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nTHE TALLEST TOWER IN THE WORLD  \nThe buildings arrived at the desert. They cast shadows on one another and changed the way the sea-wind travelled between them. Most of them were tall, but each one that arrived would change the conversation of height that was taking place in the corner of the desert they arrived at. Streets were made and they lined the streets. When a lake was dug and filled and stayed full, all the buildings turned without moving to face the lake, and soon everything fell into the day-to-day: oil, real estate, entrepôt. The special occasion was over and the effect of the latest arrivals on the sound of the shape of the buildings standing became less and less: the crowd of buildings adjusted, without missing a beat in the rhythm of their business, because now they were a city. At the almost-centre of this city, beside the mall and the fountain lake, was a space 104 metres square, which remained and remained empty. Because it was huge and completely empty, this open land promised something that all the other buildings seemed waiting for.  \nThere was still oil and there was still money in oil but there was also a government decision to diversify. 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