Akhmat Tower, Modern skyscraper in Grozny, Russia.

Akhmat Tower is a planned 102-storey, 435-metre skyscraper on the Sunzha River in central Grozny, designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture with a silhouette recalling Chechen medieval watchtowers. Only 216 bored piles, 1.5 m in diameter and 65 m deep, were sunk before work halted in 2021; construction resumed in March 2026. The planned 261,679 m² would hold offices, a five-star hotel, apartments, a fitness centre with pool, a spa and the Akhmad Kadyrov museum.

Construction began on 2 January 2016, and all bored piles for the foundation were completed by September 2016. Work was suspended in 2021 because of the economic situation and the COVID-19 pandemic, with 216 piles of 1.5 m diameter and 65 m depth in place. On 26 March 2026, Ramzan Kadyrov announced that construction had resumed.

The tower draws inspiration from historic Nakh defensive structures that once dotted the mountain valleys of the North Caucasus. Walking around it, you can see how contemporary design echoes the fortified shapes of those older buildings.

The site is a stalled construction plot on the Sunzha riverbank in central Grozny, not a finished building: only 216 bored piles, 1.5 m in diameter and 65 m deep, were sunk by September 2016. Works paused in 2021 over the economic situation and COVID-19 and resumed on 26 March 2026, so expect fenced ground and machinery rather than lifts or shops.

Only 216 bored piles, each 1.5 m in diameter and 65 m deep, were finished by September 2016; the tower itself was never built. Work stopped in 2021 over the economic situation and COVID-19, and Ramzan Kadyrov announced a restart on 26 March 2026. The design by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture follows 12th-century Vainakh military towers.