Whoa, this thing is going to be huge.
Saudi Arabia is planning to build the world's largest skyscraper. The structure, known as the Mirror Line, will be comprised of two glass reflective buildings measuring up to 488 metres (1,600 feet) high, running parallel for 120 kilometers (75 miles) across coastal, mountain and desert terrain.
Plans are to have the two buildings connected by walkways complete with a high-speed train that will run underneath them. The structure is expected to cost $1 trillion upon completion and hold five million people who will be able to travel end-to-end within a 20-minute stretch.
Included in this incredible complex will be integrated vertical farming, a marina, and a sports stadium.
It is all part of Crown Prince and Mohammed bin Salman’s zero-carbon smart city project called Neom, which will cost another $500 billion. The structure will reportedly be the size of Massachusetts.
Neom is owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund and is part of a framework called Saudi Vision 2030, which is a plan to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil.
The deadline to finish building Neom is 2030 but the entire project could take 50 years to complete.
The Mirror Line’s initial design is by the US-based Morphosis Architects, founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne, and involves at least nine other design and engineering consultants.
