Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore
20-04-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com

Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles | Rowan Moore

It was billed as a futuristic, glass-walled city, but was only ever realised in the digital sphere – where it should remainThe second least surprising piece of recent news – the first being that yet more Tory MPs are reportedly embroiled in bizarre sexual and financial scandals – is that the Line, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s 105-mile-long (170km) vanity project in Saudi Arabia, is being scaled back. In an act of what is known in the construction industry as value e
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