If this a fake, they got me. What a crazy great idea. Like a nice prison for a million people in the middle of nowhere but with Wi-Fi I presume. I’d visit, dunno if I could make it permanent.
all the planned cities i have visited over the years were lifeless… i dont like the idea at all, great cities develop organically, not by an architect.
It looks like how living in space would be.
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I don’t see the point at all: where are the Mexicans they are trying to keep out?
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Location appears to be Ras Al Sheikh to Gayal or Sharma, so right up against the Egyptian border and the end of the Gulf of Aqaba down from Israel.
Great place to hide all your women away.
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It looks like something out of a dystopian novel. I can understand the rationale, but nobody in their right mind would want to live there (except, I suppose, as a transient worker).
I wonder how valid the ecological argument is. I can see how it would cause only limited disruption in the hydrologic cycle, but I’m not sure how animals would react to it. It’d surely be the ecological equivalent of the Berlin Wall.
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I saw a feed along these lines as well. 75 mile long building or something in the UAE. that was fake too, or actually planned?
Or your green folks who do green cuz green.
Ridiculous, stupid. The idea, and to try to talk about it like if it were anything besides CGI
New cities gotta go somewhere. We will migrate. It’s a matter of time.
Yeah, I see. Because the temperatures are going up anywhere else, we need to seek refuge in a wall in the desert because of its natural air flow (the hotter air, above 60C will go up while the cooler one, 50C, will cool us down. And we will have 100% sustainable zero comma something liters of water per head a day, very useful when walking up and down that CGI abomination. Also the power will be sourced in a super green way, and to remove the stubborn sand from all those solar panels so that they keep working at least a bit will generate jobs for everybody.
I’m in!!! when did they say they constructed it? oh, wait, maybe they didn’t because they only showed a CGI video even if they talk about it like if it were already a reality.
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Buy the bonds!
“The detention facilities are state-of-the-art, boasting zero carbon emission chambers for the torture, dismemberment, and incineration of political enemies, all out of sight to maintain your peace and serenity.”
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Allegedly
Skimming through the article, I think the author fails to conceive how large the structure is.
My question is whether there will be indoor gardening (and green spaces) sufficient to cover most of the population’s needs and if there will be enough jobs for the population unless some kind of manufacturing is built in as well.
Seems like an ideal project for SMRs and a few giant desalination plants.
I’d wet myself if I could swim a few kilometers to work and back.
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I suspect there will be nothing. But on a second thought, they have the money, and it wouldn’t be the first dumb idea someone tries to implement.
As tall as the Empire State building with unlimited energy leaves a lot of room for vertical farming.
It seems like the issue is initial cost, but like you said, they have money to burn. Consider it a donation to humanity.
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Finally a building that makes sense! why other constructors don’t do this???