Tag: 15-minute city

The Line’s 15 minute city failure and the limits of green futurism

The failure of The Line is not a failure of imagination. It is a failure of restraint by western architects and planners who go along with the charade. Who is holding these firms accountable? This is actually a reasonable kind of project for the UN to take on and challenge. 

Life at Neom, a 15-minute city in Saudi Arabia: looks like a penal colony says X user

American influencer moves to Neom with her family, showing us what life is like the new Red Sea city called The Line. X users say it looks like a prison.

Neom’s Jaumur marina resort added to string of Red Sea mega projects

Centred around a marina, Jaumur will feature a monumental 1-mile high aerofoil rising above the largest of the yacht berths, providing year-round protection yacht owners and residents. It will also have a gravity-defying cantilever (fixed or supported at only one end) to form a stunning entrance to marina, where the largest superyachts in the world can be put into park.

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Aquellum is hidden in a mountain in Aqaba

This week the fantasy is about Aquellum, a futuristic digitalised community for global nomads that will be completely encased in a mountain, invisible to anyone outside. But accessible from Aqaba, Jordan and located on the Red Sea.Â