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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

Pregaming

Looking forward to next week’s Venice Architecture Biennale amid frustration shared by curator Lesley Lokko

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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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She Walked the Line

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

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Triumphs and Tribulations

Here are AN’s top news stories of 2022

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Behind The Line

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

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AirTrain To Nowhere

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

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Hope 2022 Is Better

Here are AN’s top stories of 2021

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

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

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Neomenon

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

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No No Neom

Norman Foster and other leaders suspend participation in Saudi Arabian megacity

Building big

Saudi Arabia is building a future for its millennial population

Desert Density

Saudi Arabia announces NEOM, a $500 billion megacity on the Red Sea

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