The horizontal skyscraper sci-fi dream is now just a colossal crater in the desert. Saudi Arabia has halted construction on The Line, the over-hyped megacity that was supposed to slice through the ...

The world's largest earthworks, millions of work hours, and huge sums of money have all gone into pursuing the dream of a ...

MBS's Vison 2030 project seemed the stuff of science fiction. Now reality has bitten ...

The move comes as the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, shifts its focus towards more commercially viable infrastructure projects such as ports, utilities and data centres.

It was supposed to the most groundbreaking structure the world had ever seen. But now, this multi-trillion-dollar “smart city ...

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM has delayed further work on The Line — the planned 170-kilometer long dual skyscrapers once projected to cost more than $1 trillion — until at least after 2030 as the kingdom’s ...

Site preparation and foundation work had started in 2024 for the first segments of The Line in northwest Saudi Arabia. Screen capture from video released by THE LINE at NEOM March 31, 2026 ...

The scaling back follows years of operational chaos and financial bleeding. Since its 2017 launch, the project promised a 105-mile strip of high-density living. But reality struck early. By April 2024 ...

The Line, a 170-kilometre long and 2-kilometre wide megacity envisaged in the Saudi Arabian desert at the heart of the Neom ...