It reminds me of Francis Ford Coppola's distavorous "Megalopolis" flop, only this is for $50 billion.
Babal.
Or they could hire Chinese contractors thus ensuring the chandelier would immediately "break off."
“No, Saudi Arabia's NEOM project — the broader futuristic region that includes the infamous “The Line” linear city — is not fully “crashing and burning,” but its most ambitious and hyped element, The Line, has been dramatically scaled back, delayed, and plagued by cost overruns, making the original 2017-2021 vision look increasingly unrealistic as of late 2025.”
It looks pretty good as compared to the disastrous Newsom fast rail project in California.
Plus the Saudis have the money.
Newsom doesn't.
Florida’s development is quite linear because the Gulf and the Atlantic moderate temperatures.
There’s a reason why Saudi Arabia should want linear development.
The Saudi’s are the ones who caused the 911 terrorist attack against America.
And now it appears we will be giving them nuclear technology and massive AI technology... We are shooting ourselves in the foot with a cannon (at best)...
Interesting but bizarre
People have to dream
Architecture needs dreamers or it gets stale
Glass gets boring but it’s cheaper so u see it so much
Only the feds and universities can be granite sided monument buildings $$$$
I was always sus about the viability of it
I don’t think that’s a small view held
If follow the Dubai model
If I was a middle eastern oil monarch that is
They were planning to put a 30,000 seat soccer arena on top of a skyscraper.
What could possibly go wrong?
All big ambitious projects suffer setbacks. In the end people remember the finished product, not the setbacks along the way.
Looked god on paper...
In a muslim country everything hits a dead end or just that Brick wall ,LOL
Just who did the Saudis expect would live there? Aside from their own wealthy playboys, most Saudis couldn’t afford to live there. It would also be hard to attract foreign residents to a country that bans alcohol and makes women completely cover themselves even when swimming.
And yet they are going to “invest” $600M-$1B in the good ol’ USA. Strange!
This is how this sounds:
Saudi to India: “Can you design us a futurist city?”
India: “No problem, just send us a bunch of cash.”
India back home: “These guys are even dumber than the Americans”
Just because a bunch of low IQ inbred nomads got money from oil does not mean their IQ has improved.