The Line - Saudi Arabia

[mac]

Just a modern day Medina in Marrakesh

 

[Millo]

A lot of birds will die flying into a 100 mile long, 1600 foot high mirror!

 

[Bill Walker]

They'll also need someone to clear up the thousands of dead birds.

Do they have that many birds in the desert?

 

[Damocles]

I'm usually a fan of any project that attempts to throw away societal norms and redesign. But this seems impractical without an entire city of support structures built around it which negates its point.

 

[urban genie]

Are they building a floating housing estate in the gulf for the Increased Leisure Citizens

 

[Barcon]

A lot of birds will die flying into a 100 mile long, 1600 foot high mirror!

I wonder if there’ll be a load of oiled up, topless men posing and looking at themselves in it.

 

[WNRH]

Like living in the Trafford Centre if it had a monorail.

 

[TFC]

I briefly flirted with the idea of pursuing a job out there recently (in Neom). Wife and kids would have had to relocate back to the UK and I would have been on my tod for large portions of the year. It would have been decent money, but fuck that.

 

[bluenova]

Will any poor people be allowed in or do they all huddle up outside the walls waiting to have shit and piss thrown on them?

I was surprised the video didn't even hint at it's "zombie-proofness".

 

[bluenova]

Where would you watch a football or cricket match, or somebody like Morrissey ?

It's apparently 200m wide, so you could fit the Spurs stadium in sideways.