by John Hayward, Breitbart:
The futuristic city of NEOM was supposed to be the crown jewel of Saudi Arabia’s turn toward a more advanced and diverse economy, but eight years into the project, the Financial Times revealed, cost overruns and engineering failures are piling up.
The Financial Times (FT) all but pronounced last rites over NEOM, calling it a “dream unraveled” in a lengthy article last week that made it clear almost everything has gone wrong – from the rude discovery that hanging a 30-story building from a titanic arch was a lot harder than concept designers thought it would be, to the biggest rookie mistake of architects since time immemorial: forgetting that poop flows downhill. The executive director of the project decided to build a network of hundreds of shuttle cars to handle the pungent fruit of NEOM’s thousands of toilets.
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The chandelier building was the brainchild of a designer named Olivier Pron, who also did design work on a few Marvel superhero films. He was reportedly brought onto the project because Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the godfather of NEOM, liked those movies.
The signature element of NEOM – the building that appeared in mind-blowing concept art that captured the world’s imagination eight years ago – is a “linear city” known simply as The Line. It resembled a glass skyscraper tipped on its side, a high-tech version of the Great Wall of China rendered with mirrored glass, a hundred miles long and almost a quarter-mile high.
The Line was designed to be so huge that it would contain an indoor marina big enough to handle massive cruise ships, so enormous that a stadium big enough to handle the 2034 World Cup would overlook the sheltered harbor.
