User:DavidSSabb/sandbox

(not putting this in AfC yet due to difficulty sorting out conflicting information and finding reliable sources - particularly there is a lot of strangely conflicting information about the height of the concrete shell (vs the height of the never-started Beirut Trade Center proposal from the 90s) and also the reason why it was never complete (structural damage from the war or just finances?), I'll have to do some deeper digging when I have more time).

The Burj al-Murr (Arabic: Tower of Bitterness), formally known as the Beirut Trade Center, is an incomplete 140 meter (459 foot) skyscraper in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. It was designed by prominent Canadian architectual firm WZMH Architects It was prominently used as a snipers' nest by multiple factions during the Battle of the Hotels during the Lebanese Civil War, as its height and open structure allowed a commanding view of the surrounding area. After the war ended the tower was too structurally damaged to complete, and yet is too close to populated districts to safely implode.