TWO NEW TOWERS PLANNED FOR SAUDI ARABIA'S NEOM
Two new towers aimed at attracting tourists to the Gulf of Aqaba in Saudi Arabia are set to be built in the special economic zone of NEOM.
The towers – 225 metres and 275 metres in height respectively – will form part of the luxury coastal tourism destination, Epicon. They will house a hotel and luxury residences comprising 14 suites and apartments close to the Epicon resort, which will offer 120 rooms and 45 residential beach villas. Hong Kongbased architecture firm 10 Design has designed the towers.
News of Epicon follows the recent announcement of Leyja, another tourism destination within a valley in NEOM in northwest Saudi Arabia.
Leyja is being developed within a natural Wadi, with 120 rooms split between three properties sitting between 400m-high mountains.
The kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is the cornerstone investor in NEOM, a 26,500-square-km (10,230-square-mile) high-tech development on the Red Sea with several zones, including an industrial and logistics areas, planned for completion in 2025. It has been estimated that the project’s infrastructure could cost $US100 billion to US$200 billion. iC
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