What is going on in Saudi Arabia! Building new pyramids in the 21st century? Are they really trying to erect one gigantic building that can hold an entire mega city?
Let the desert bloom!
I blogged here in December 2022 about it showing first satellite imagery of the start of the construction.
"The idea of taking a population the size of New York City and putting it into a 170-km (105-mile)-long skyscraper in the Saudi Desert seems so ambitious that anyone could be forgiven for being skeptical. However, the project, named the Line, is indeed going ahead ...
the Line is expected to reach a supertall height of 500 m (1,640 ft) and a width of 200 m (656 ft). It will stretch over desert, mountain, valley and coastal terrain, and will have a mirrored exterior, so hopefully some kind of system can be put in place to ensure it doesn't decimate the local avian population. Its interior will include housing, parks, hospitals – basically everything you'd expect to find in a major city. ..."
the Line is expected to reach a supertall height of 500 m (1,640 ft) and a width of 200 m (656 ft). It will stretch over desert, mountain, valley and coastal terrain, and will have a mirrored exterior, so hopefully some kind of system can be put in place to ensure it doesn't decimate the local avian population. Its interior will include housing, parks, hospitals – basically everything you'd expect to find in a major city. ..."
"THE LINE will comprise carbon-positive urban developments powered by 100% clean energy, providing pollution-free, healthier and more sustainable environments for residents.
A cornerstone of Saudi Vision 2030 and an economic engine for the Kingdom, the giga-project will drive diversification and aims to contribute 380,000 jobs of the future. THE LINE’s communities will be cognitive, powered by AI - around 90% of available data will be harnessed to enhance infrastructure capabilities beyond the 1% typical for smart cities. ..."
From the Atkins fact sheet:
"34km2 Area
170km Length
500m Height (above sea level)
9m Population
20min End-to-end transit enabled by high speed rail
5min Walk to nature from every point of THE LINE
4 Distinctive ecologies connected"
THE LINE at NEOM THE LINE at NEOM is a never-before-seen approach to urbanization – a 170km-belt of hyper-connected future communities, without cars and roads and built around nature.
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