Saudi Arabia Faces Challenges in Constructing a 105-Mile Skyscraper

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The future of Neom, Saudi Arabia's enormous city building project, is looking shaky as costs soar and construction setbacks mount as the result of poor planning, The Wall Street Journal reports.

It's now been cut down to a mere 1.5 miles, with ambitions of housing millions of residents in its first phase also dropping to less than 200,000.

The uber-ambitious pair of skyscrapers is supposed to be taller than the Empire State Building and span 105 miles of desert, its western end terminating on the coast of the Red Sea.

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Author / Journalist: Frank Landymore

Category: Technology

Markets: United StatesBrazilSaudi Arabia

Topics: Future Society The digest Skyscrapers Neom

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Published On: 2024-05-07 @ 18:59:00 (1 weeks ago)

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