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