The Line - Saudi Arabia

[Dubai Blue]

So are the peasants and indentured workforce gonna be down one end and the wealthier up the other as you move along, seperating society or will it be a multicutural, mixed societal oasis.

Sounds quite distopian tbh.

A friend of mine is working on this and when he described it to me a few months ago, all I could think was that it sounded like something out of Demolition Man. This promo video hasn't done much to change my mind!

It will be mightily impressive from a construction point of view, but it looks and sounds like a dreadful way to live.

That said, I still don't think I can fully comprehend the size and scale of this thing — one of the "blocks" is planned to have a 50,000-seater football stadium on the roof!

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Wasn't Manchester promised that with the Hulme 1960's "walkways in the sky" project? That went well.

I thought of that too. Let's see how it is after ten years when the lifts all stop working/stink of piss and the rats and cockroaches have established themselves

 

[mexico1970]

I wont believe it until Alan Whicker tells us about it.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Imagine living at the far end and travelling to the other end to the shops and remembering you’d left your wallet on the kitchen table.

 

[RobMCFC]

Impressive from a design and architectural standpoint, but it will be a commercial centre designed to trap people and their money inside.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

can we just build it somewhere out to see, leave a big hole at the bottom and put all liverpool and man united fans in?

 

[BimboBob]

What happens if you don't like heights? Or enclosed spaces?

 

[mcfcphil]

The window cleaning contract for that mirror facade, should be a nice little earner!

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

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Wouldn’t want to be in there when the air con goes tits up.

 

[urban genie]

What happens if you don't like heights? Or enclosed spaces?

You can live in the desert in a tent and pop in for your big shop once a week

 

[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.