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AI-generated renderings show skyscrapers, solar fields, water desalination plants, a new high speed rail corridor, and oil rigs off of Gaza’s shoreline
Gaza 2035

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils regional plan to build a “massive free trade zone” with rail service to NEOM

Play Castle

Populous’s Qiddiya Stadium in Saudi Arabia showcases the future of fun

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Coming in Hot

Daily digest: RIOS shows off its new office in Austin, an update on the Flatiron auction, and more news

Already Full of Life

Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, explores the contested politics of supposedly empty terrain

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Nouvelles Villes

Pompidou Center continues its expansion with two new outposts planned for Seoul and Saudi Arabia

two people looking at screens with visuals of neom
She Walked the Line

A multimedia exhibit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, reveals more details about NEOM’s linear city

glass building development in desert landscape
Behind The Line

The visions for NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s linear megacity in the desert, reveal contemporary shortcomings more than a future utopia

portrait of a female architect
In Jeddah

Counterspace’s Sumayya Vally named co-curator of inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale

rendering of the laguardia airtrain pulling into an airport
AirTrain To Nowhere

Daily digest: Reebok launches an Eames Office collaboration, the Port Authority releases AirTrain alternatives, and more

rendering of theme park off the coast of saudi arabia atop a series of oil platforms
Waterworld

Saudi Arabia will build an offshore oil rig theme park resort

THE LINE, a linear development in the mountains of saudi arabia
I Walk THE LINE

Saudi Arabia reveals a hundred-mile-long linear city, but critics are skeptical

A large facade carved out of a giant boulder in the desert.
Desert Drama

Desert X AlUla announces artist lineup

Rock formations in the historic al-Ula valley, Saudi Arabia, future home of a Jean Nouvel luxury resort
New Nouvel

Jean Nouvel is designing a luxury resort in the Saudi Arabian desert

Rendering of the proposed mega project in a quarry; Qiddiya
I Qiddiya not

Arquitectonica, Morphosis, HOK, Snøhetta, and more in running for massive Qiddiya giga-project in Saudi Arabia

Image of man speaking at podium with purple sign behind him that says NEOM in English and Arabic
Neomenon

Saudi Arabia wants NEOM to have flying cars, a fake moon, and 24/7 surveillance

A rendering of Virgin's proposed space-centered development in Saudi Arabia
Rough Ride

Virgin Hyperloop One hits major bumps in the wake of Saudi controversy

Still from NEOM promotional video
No No Neom

Norman Foster and other leaders suspend participation in Saudi Arabian megacity

Bee in the Honeycomb

Zaha Hadid Architects releases flythrough of crystalline desert complex

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