#megaprojects

#megaprojects

Once hailed as the most radical experiment in twenty-first-century urbanism, THE LINE, (find designboom's previous coverage here), a 170-kilometer-long mirrored megacity slicing through the desert, stands at the center of Saudi Arabia's shifting architectural agenda. Conceived as the backbone of NEOM, the $500-billion development in the country's northwest, it promised a car-free, carbon-neutral city contained within two parallel walls rising 500 meters high, an ambitious vision that faces an unexpected test of endurance.