The Line

Bill Mackay, a senior lecturer of architecture and planning at the University of Auckland, says Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's hyped and hyper-modern city ...

“One of the key parts of it is that it's a linear community built around transport. All the shade that they generate allows people to walk. We have a lot of thinking to be done with our architecture.” And those articles are free. “I think architecture actually does solve the world's problems at times. But the reality would be nothing more than a giant land-stricken cruise ship, a New Zealand architecture professor says. Chicca said the production of The Line would have a far larger environmental impact than the construction of a normal dense city, because of how challenging it was to verticalise infrastructure. In the case of The Line it's an answer to which there actually wasn't much of a problem in the first place, but at least it's an answer. "It's already so boiling hot out there. But Mackay is dubious. “In Arab countries there is a real problem with linear glass and mirror glass because their buildings reflect things badly and light just bounces off each of them and the roads, and makes it a really unpleasant place to be out in. To counter that, the mirrors on the outside of the skyscrapers will reflect it away from the buildings inside The Line.

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to introduce an eco-friendly megacity dubbed 'The Line'. The project features a unique design, taking the shape of a ...

This video unveils the design for The Line, a 500-metre-tall mirror-clad skyscraper that will be built to house nine million people in Saudi Arabia.

New details have ginned up interest in Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's long-touted city of the future, just as he departed for his first official ...

Earlier this month, President Biden traveled to Jiddah to meet with several Middle Eastern leaders, including Mohammed, greeting the prince with a fist bump that drew criticism even from within his own party. Earlier this week, Mohammed flew to Athens and signed several bilateral agreements, including an energy deal that would see Saudi Arabia export electricity to Greece. The presentation in Jiddah on Monday — including slick (yet, some would say, dystopian) promo images and talk of an IPO — set off a days-long media and public relations blitz. “Why should we copy normal cities?” he added. In the past, he has used Neom, a $500 billion project owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, as a “key tool for him to consolidate his power” and a “lynchpin in his diplomatic efforts,” Ali Dogan, a research fellow at the Berlin-based Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, wrote last year. In this Shangri-La, there’s no traffic or pollution, just green space, amenities and high-speed mass transit.

Pete Crowcroft announces his arrival at the spot where Spring Creek meets Torquay's back beach with a bird call. His name badge – “Possum Pete” – sits among ...