Five towers rise from the port of Rio de Janeiro, each 38 storeys high, together the largest office complex in Brazil. A 47-storey glass monolith of luxury residential condominiums and a casino soars above the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi. An ocean resort in Tijuana, Mexico looms over the Pacific.
Separated by continents, two things unite these projects. One is the name emblazoned upon their peaks like crowns: Trump. The other is the fact they were never built, existing only in the archives of the internet as breathy press releases and glossy renders.
Now another can be added to this list of imagined edifices: rising from the white sands of Surfers Paradise, a new Trump Tower on Australia’s Gold Coast.
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