
Bahrain could become home to the world's tallest skyscraper if a project by Danish company Henning Larsens Tegnestue gets the go-ahead.
Company project director Louis Becker is planning to have a meeting about the proposed project with a building contractor in Bahrain.
The company's design calls for a skyscraper measuring 1,022 m - double the Taiwan Taipei 101 - which is currently the world's tallest building at 506 m.
It was chosen by the Bahrain contractor because of the company's previous experience in building in Saudi Arabia, according to a report.
The company designed both the Foreign Affairs Ministry in 1984 and the Royal Danish Embassy in 1987, in Riyadh.
The project is awaiting approval from King Hamad and is expected to be formally announced this month. Becker has reportedly been working on plans for the project for a year.
The project, which would take about seven-and-a-half years to build, would comprise five towers - modelled after the five pillars of Islam. The tallest tower would reach 1,022 m, have 200 storeys and house 30,000 people. The second tallest would measure 600 m.