Architecture studio Week has envisioned a 4.4-kilometre-high memorial to draw attention to the number of reported deaths connected to the construction of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Named the Qatar World Cup Memorial, the tower would be constructed from stacked concrete blocks, with each block representing one of the migrant workers reported to have died in Qatar since the country won the right to host the World Cup in 2010.
The Qatar World Cup Memorial tower would rise 4.4 kilometres high based on the 2020 figures (far right)
France- and Chile-based studio Week designed the octagonal structure to draw attention to the well-documented human rights abuses that have occurred in Qatar ahead of the tournament.
First envisioned in 2014, the conceptual tower was designed to grow as more deaths were reported. Each block represents one migrant worker reported to have died in Qatar over the past decade
"We chose the skyscraper typology because the impressive and imposing nature of the extreme height that the project could reach allows it to reflect the scale of the humanitarian disaster and the constantly increasing number of victims," the studio told Dezeen.
"Moreover, as it is a perpetually growing tower, there is no theoretical height limit, another typology of project would not have allowed this."
It would be built from modular concrete blocks
The memorial tower would be built from 2.5-meter-high modular concrete blocks with four placed on each layer t...