The German architecture firm Drees and Sommer will be in charge of the construction of a 1.7 billion-euro holiday resort town project, known as 'Flower of the East', on the Iran's Kish Island, IRNA reported on Thursday quoting the German-based website Iran Now.

(Announcement by Drees and Sommer)

The 220 hectares-mega project, due to be ready by 2008, will include a business park, a shopping mall, a Seven Star and several Five Star Hotels.

Further it will have a marina, an 18-hole golf course, multiple apartment complexes, villas and town houses.

The construction master plan intertwines traditional Persian architecture with today's state-of-the-art high-tech architecture.

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