This video examines the current status of the Line City project in Saudi Arabia. It explores reported delays, changes in scale, construction challenges, and shifting development priorities. The ...
Saudi Arabia has halted construction on The Line, the over-hyped megacity that was supposed to slice through the sand like a mirrored sword, until 2030—LOL!—after multiple delays and downsizings.
The world's largest construction project is carving up the Saudi desert. But will the megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality?
It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable. Of all of contemporary architecture’s many sins, perhaps the most pernicious is its ...