Architecture of the Day
Architecture of the Day
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Construction begins on "The Line". 170km long city in Neom, Saudi Arabia:
- The overall width of "The Line" does not look like the 200 meters (656 feet) as promised.utopian
- They weren't kidding...grafician
- It'll only cost 500 billion, house 9 million, and be done by 2025.
http://www.reactiong…Akagiyama - Roads? infrastructure for 9M people in the desert?!
They must have a djinn somewhere doing the workgrafician - Exchanging oil for USA $'s seems like a great business. Probably will go really well as all currencies collapse against $.shapesalad
- Cost $500 billion AND 10,000 lives of Indian and Bangladeshi labourers_niko
- Maybe they really like to drivedrgs
- But why?Chimp
- apparently, in theory, cities in this layout are more sustainable. Of course sans millions of tons of steel and glass that they will use.Beeswax
- This is going to be the biggest empty carcass of human idiocy and arrogance by 2028.jagara
- At least give The Venus Project a go, i you want to build futuristic planned cities. Not that I have great faith in that. But more than this stupidity.jagara
- Who would want to live there?NBQ00
- How many 'Line' jokes can you make?Chimp
- the 'suburbs' for saudia arabia. more peaceful than the alternative.hotroddy
- i'm sure the subway would be state of the arthotroddy
- It better be. Imagine your home and your job are at the opposite ends of the stripedrgs
- There is no fucking way this is more efficient when measured over the life of the citynb
- Least-walkable city in history, for starters.nb
- None of you are interested to see where this goes? I think it’s cool that humans do experiments like thisscarabin
- Not really, no.Continuity
- I wonder what part of the stripe will be most expensivedrgs
- wow and killing those that don't move out of the way.BabySnakes
- Percentage of outdoor space to indoor space?slappy