Which part of "tourists like to spend their money in Europe" do they not understand? Build something beautiful, not oppressive, futuristic caca. They already have Dubai in the area, struggling to attract interest from tourists and real-estate buyers. This is going to be a colossal failure.
@@sallybrite1530you don’t know anything. asia and middle east will become so populated they’re not relying on tourists but tourists will come. from asia. they love going to the middle east
Tourists are going to Dubaï but its model is not easily reproductible. The head of the project, a megalomaniac king, wants giant holograms and flying cars, he thinks money can buy science fiction technologies, he has no common sens. He is trusting scammers because they are the only ones who can tell him what he wants to hear. These projects will all miserably fail. But everybody needs lessons in life. For the king it's trillions dollar lessons but I thinks that OK if you put aside ecology. A lot of people will feed their family to build this nonsens.
They have no culture to brag/show. People will come once, and never come again. That might be enough though if the world have enough people with enough money.
Bro they are not wasting there money they are going to bankrupt all countries in Asia for funding these shit they will keep on increasing crude oil price and our corrupt politician don't even care about us they will put all burden on poor people already srilanka, Pakistan,nepal, Bangladesh all are struggling bigger country like India and Indonesia are also in a problem
None of the other major projects they planned got finished, so there is zero chance of this getting done. Jeddah Tower planned for 2020, seems abandoned. Masdar City planned for 2009, is currently hoped to complete by 2030. King Abdullah Economic City planned for 2020, but hardly any of it is done, has 7000 residents instead of the 2 million they were hoping for. I wish that they would concentrate on one thing at a time instead of starting all these new projects and not completing any of them. They like to have grandiose plans but are either unwilling or unable to complete them.
Many smaller projects has been built already but isn’t furnished The king salman (name changed) tower HAS A VERRRYYY LONG STORY basically that the person that leads the build had some debt issues and he can’t continue the build and has been stopped for one year but it is now back under the name of king salman But you’ve seen the UAE build the burj khalifa? So now saudi arabia a richer a stronger and a larger country can’t build a 1km building
@Meshowz MHM PREVIOUS RULING KING? This ain’t democracy king salman is still there he is the current ruler and like i said in the first comment IT HAS BEEN STOPPED FOR 1 YEAR FOR LOTS OF REASON EXAMPLE covid 19 but MBS IS THE ONE TO CREATE vision 2030
@@rrealaliee UAE? How about the Palm island project? It is partially finished and erosion is endangering the completed part. Burj Kalifa? They forgot about organising the sewage, trucks are used to transport away all the shit every day. What kind of system is that? Can't even plan regular sewage or in their culture sewage system is unknown?
Honestly, I believe all of saudis projects will be finished. It just would probably happen between 2030-2040. The line has an exception, which would probably be in multiple decades.
@@Thethyck4445 is it bad for humans to build big? I don't get it. Building bigger and taller is more efficient and better for city planning than just spreading out endlessly; in a horizontal while destroying more of the environment
I have to say its a practical building, there is more than plenty space to build the cemeteries required to host all the people that will built the project.
To think that people have to live or work inside this gigantic cube (at the center of the building I mean) with no windows to see outside would be a claustrophobic nightmare
It all depends on how the building is constructed. They can use artificial lights to simulate the sun light too, or they can use mirrors to bring sun light inside or they can use inner chambers as maintenance works, warehouses, data centres etc..
Saudis are building Kaaba Part 2 and this time they will open gates even to non-Muslims, it seems like. Turned out that 🕋, Mecca was just a tourist destination for all these centuries... A way to make money by selling religion and then selling oil and now selling fancy cities...
This project is very interesting but how do they plan to control the shadow caused by such a massive building? I can just imagine a part of the city in shadows because of it...
Maybe they put extremely powerful and expensive drone mounted spot lights powered with renewable energy, it will be called the "الشمس الذهبية" or golden sun.
I lived in the KSA for a year back in 2018. After seeing how things are done over there, let me tell you, it’s laughable to even consider that they’ll be able to pull these things off within the next 100 years… let alone by 2030! There is no fucking way.
I am from Saudi and i understand your point but The reason you say this is because of the reliance on cheap companies with simple workers, but recently attention has been paid to this problem and important projects have been assigned to international companies only.
it will NEVER happen because : "Saudi Arabia prohibits public non-Muslim religious activities. Non-Muslim worshipers risk arrest, imprisonment, lashing, deportation, and sometimes torture for engaging in overt religious activity that attracts official attention."
The City in The Kingdom on Earth is set as a Cube! I love the shape of a square, so of course, I Love The Cube. There is so much BALANCE in a Cube! I Love It!!
What about the giant holographic women in bathrobes casually strolling through the place? That looks totally reasonable. And necessary. Just the other day, I was at the grocery shopping for drain cleaner and paper clips, and I thought “How come there are never any 60-foot-tall women in bathrobes strolling around the produce aisle?”
Wow. 'The Cube'. Sounds even more practical than 'The Line'. Perhaps these projects could be combined: I suggest 'The Lube'. Because 'The Lube' will make it easier on 'The Rectum'.
When you say "we" you mean that you are involved in the construction of this building? Because if this is one of those arguments of "humanity is bad" you could start thinking that not everyone in humanity is building this stupid cube or even wasting resources.
It can be done but the dome has to get smaller relative to the size of the cube. That provides more diagonal bracing for the roof. There actually has to be 2 roofs. One for the lake and one below to drain to the exterior for possible leaks on the lake roof.
@@Better403 Way to assume I'm american. Im not. Am from central europe. And am I wrong to assume that this monstrosity will be build by slaves? (If it will be constructed at all)
Let us know when they complete any of their other mega projects first. How many things have they abandoned after starting or had implode because the aesthetics were more important than the engineering?
@@alialshehri6977 Yeah, okay, lol. There are projects they started a decade ago that aren't even close to being anywhere near done. I guess the Bangladeshis quit allowing themselves to be lured into slavery after what Dubai did to them.
@@MarxIsDeadAndRotting which projects? Jeddah tower was not a government project. I live by Neom, I see The Line with my own eyes, there are hundreds of thousands of construction workers and excavators all over the site. They’re dead serious about these vision 2030 projects because it’s backed by our Prince MBS himself.
@@alialshehri6977 Ya ok. But don't your prince realizes that it's impossible to build such a linear city ? We don't have sustainable technology for that, but maybe the saudi family has got no engineering culture
Saudi Arabia is following the same path as Bavaria under King Ludwig II. Building large projects that will remain unfinished, once they run out of money.
I love how these ads show giant stone mountain pillars that reach into the clouds just standing off to the side of the building. Never mind the fact that it's being built in a flat desert city.
@@Abdullah-yr4tv Ah ok. I assumed it was flat based on other ad video renderings lol :) Still, those stone pillars with vines growing in the clouds is pure gold.
@@SyrianApostate do u live there? Have u went there? These are simple questions cause if you’re brainwashed as western/european ppl because of what the media says, you wouldn’t know…. Look your believing of that shows your whole ignorant mind if u take media as a depending source of information, and I don’t give a shit of u like mbs or not, but we Saudi do and we’re with him cause he’s making our country better and one of the tops and you not liking so no one really gives a shit about ur opinion and we all trying our hardest to let these stupid allegations that western countries have said about us to not be believed at all, ppl are not stupid anymore, they go look for themselves especially my generation you seem like an old person who is still stuck with their old mind, dreamers only could do these things and you just keep talking about it cause you literally won’t change a single thing !
@@alanwann9318 Be hilarious if *They* are the owners or at least their friends are the owners of these companies. And they are doing thig just to shuffle money around.
Gotta spend that criminal income somehow right? And i mean why not? They have a army of forced labour force aka modern day slave labout army. So its ultra cheap actually. They dont have to pay jackshit for the workers. A big portion of cost in moderatly normal countries comes from the actual labour being done on it. But since saudi and many of its friends actually actively engage in slave labour, its way cheaper.
@@gaza1677 The Arabian peninsula is mostly desert that is true, but that completely irrelevant as it is the birthplace of civilizations and all major religions
The renderings all somehow keep out the immense shadows this cube will cast at all times of the the day. I wonder what impacts this will have on the ecology immediately adjacent to the cube
@@jamineamina5429 god forbid you shouldn't change ecology. Im sure the geological humidity will be fine, and won't create sink holes after a few years. Not like that has NEVER happened anywhere else, that isn't even a desert...
@@yummychips_ its a god damn render and itll never happen. why are you giving serious engineering cons on this. the whole idea is a mockery of engineering... its essentially sci fi for clicks. what happens underneath the bases of buildings btw? hows the "geological humidity", right underneath the foundation ever hold up, with it never seeing the light of day?? if youre gonna pull criticisms out of your ass just to refute me, maybe start with the integrity of the ground it would actually sit on, rather than worrying about how surrounding dirt would be affected by shadow cast.
And all I can think of is When the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the signs of the Final Hour, one of the signs he mentioned was "when you see the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.”. When asked to elaborate further, the Prophet (ﷺ) said that they are from the Arabs
I remember one mega-project called "Jeddah Tower". Let's see how it's going: holy cannoli, Godfather, that project started in 2013? That was a long time ago! It's finished, right? Ohh Noo! 😱 "Status: ON HOLD"! "Estimated completion: UNKNOWN" Hey, Saudi guys: maybe finish ONE of these projects first. You know, the one you started a DECADE ago? That one.
Jeddah tower is a private project, not a government one and the reason that why it's stooped because the owners of it got arrested for corruption (the Ritz Carlton corruption crackdown), and its still on hold ever since.
مشروع جدة حصلت به بعض المشاكل لأن ارضها ارض ملحيّة وليست ارض حقيقية ، وهي تابعة لشخص واحد وليست تابعة للدولة ، على كلٍّ تم تسليم المشروع للدولة لذا سيتم الانتهاء منها
Alright, Saudi Arabia is now just throwing away money because they don’t know where to spend it, please some people go ask them for a spare 1 million so they don’t keep doing this projects…
It's quite unlikely that's gonna happen so soon. The larger a project is the longer it takes to be built and projects much smaller than this one take usually more than 7 years to complete.
My son in law is working on this project, he is an architectural draughtsman working for a top firm in London,they have a tiny part of the mukaab construction, and it is worth hundreds of millions in revenue, AGAIN, they only have a small percentage of the contract working to gain more as the job ensues, there is no limit when the funds are limitless 😳🤔❤
Anyone heard about a Saudi project called "The Egg"? Nothing precise is known yet about the timetable, the architectual form and the site but it is expected to be ambitious and should be finalized by 2030....
This is the most realistic of all their mega projects. But I wish they use their money to convert the whole desert to a vast green forest with a thriving ecosystem.
Yeah but that would make sense and wouldn't make their country's dick look longer to other Arab countries. Gaddafi was going to make Libya green by digging into the enormous underground aquifers but he got... interrupted in the process
We have many people around the world who are starving for food, how would prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon him would feel about all of this may Allah guide us in the right path!
yes i wonder too how would prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon him would feel about all of this may Allah guide us in the right path! like right now i am wondering about it , ! peacefully and!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not know how to pray in order to criticize the country that started Islam. We are not obligated to feed every human being on this planet. Work in your country so that you can eat and do not wait for charity from other countries.
A 14% poverty rate is a wild underestimate, too … Saudi Arabia’s population is not just citizens, but comprises in large part migrant laborers and undocumented immigrants from all over the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and beyond, who often serve as de facto slave labor for these obscene mega-projects. (Saudi Arabia in fact largely subsidizes the lavish lifestyle of its sprawling monarchy with slave labor, an obscenity which the industrialized world largely ignores in exchange for the steady flow of oil.) If we, as we should, regard Saudi Arabia’s population as being not just the kingdom’s citizens but in fact all its residents - or, in the nomenclature of absolute monarchies, “subjects,” ugh … didn’t France have a whole revaluation over shit like this?? - then the poverty rate is considerably higher than 14%, and probably closer to, *at a minimum,* 34% … and probably much higher, but the Saudi government is notoriously opaque with its figures and routinely blocks the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights from accessing economic data.
Although all of these megaprojects look cool as fuck, l'm wondering if they are getting ahead of themselves being a little over ambitious working on 3 of them simultaneously, they should just focus on one at a time
That's what I was thinking. To fund multiple projects at once just seems short sighted - money problems happen, and if you're dividing that money between multiple sights not even one thing will get done.
The Kingdom tower is a private development by business men not government the government can finish mega projects Paris was a government mega project when it was built not a private project .
And also an ambitious Project which should be build in Riyad is an still unnamed skyscraper which should rise to a height of 2000 meters. I read about this on some websites
I think Saudi Arabia are planning on making all the dice used in Dungeons & Dragons. This being the d6 and the Oxigon being the d20. The Line being... ehhh... the dice tower?
@@deeptoot1453 Did you live in Saudi Arabia? If you do not live, you cannot speak. We are the people of this land and we know the nature of the Saudi lands. We built our homes ourselves and we know the difference between sand and rocks. Most of our areas are rocky and the sandy areas are well-known and clear, like the Nafud Desert. Yes, there are cases of dust, “but” it does not damage homes or damage skyscrapers, just medium-speed winds. It is loaded with dust and the effect of dust in the Middle East regions is incomparable to the effect and damage of rain in other countries. With all love and respect 🌹
So... what is the fire escape plan in this building? Will there be underground fire safe exits? This entire building has electricity running to literally every inch of the perimeter. One fire incident and it’s all going up.
It sure looks like the leaders of Saudi Arabia come up with some highly unusual ideas for cities and buildings. This plan for a huge cube shaped building reminds me of the cube shaped space ship of the Borg on Star Trek. A giant size cube is an ugly shape for a building and will likely be impractical common uses.
The first thing that came to my mind was a cube... The Cube aka The Allspark The artefact that gave life to the entire Transformers Universe(movies) It is an create and destroy anything and everything
so does anybody else notice how there are all of these mega projects in the work that are being marketed and priced to the rich and ultra rich? I mean, how much is it going to cost to stay here? I'm sure that I can't afford it. So it would appear that the people who study and make their livelihoods on the trends of the market, that there is greater despair between the classes.
Its saudi? Duh! One of the most classist countries in the world, actively employing modern day slave labour, owh oops sorry forced labour force. That country doing anything even slightly classist *gasp* who would have thought that🙋♂️
20% finished of these projects? Probably true, can't imagine they will build any more than 5 times of what's standing by now before quitting construction...
According to NEOMs CEO 20% of the infrastructure is completed, but this does not mean that 20% of the megaprojects (Line, Oxagon, Trojena, etc.) is completed.
Cube aside I love the creativity, visuals and the rendering of this. They should really go into creating sci-fi / virtual reality films and entertainment.
You are ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia is full of giant projects since the seventies, the Great Mosque of Mecca, Medina, Jubail, Yanbu Industrial, giant military cities, there is nothing strange. They will succeed in all projects.
None of these are as big and ridiculous as these. Also, these mega projects are based on ACTUAL, sustainable NEEDS....these new ones are just made so they can have large sources of income after their oil is depleted, and there's nothing wrong with that. But there are WAY much better, more sustainable ways to diversify your economy other than building the Biggest X, Y, Z
@@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 so the future is us building something that is just BIGGER??? That's IT??? With no ACTUAL valid reason to why it should be that big??? The future is us building sustainable buildings using state of art technologies to achieve new limits for comfort and convenience. Building a big ass cube for no reason is literally the opposite. This is literally ABC architectural design but i don't expect you to understand it
@@LO-dm6uf *No* , the future is realizing that 'proof -of-concept' megastructures like these actually being built can be the next step of evolution for civil engineering and city planning. All we currently do is horizontal expansion and deforestation when, in reality, vertical expansion is way more efficient and ecofriendly with our growing population. If I need to use Saudi Arabia's mega ambitious projects to show that megastructures is the next step of evolution for us then I will. Hence why this is fascinating. Hopefully, decades later, other countries will start to build skyscraper high arcologies to house a large population efficiently and more compactly.
@@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 vertical expansion is NOT more eco friendly or efficient. Vertical expansion only makes sense if you have no arable land left to build on like Japan where most of Jaoan's area is rocky mountains. Otherwise, skyscrapers are literally the opposite of effeciency, the amount of infrastructure, and structure needed to support and supply them is HUGE compared to medium rise buildings of the same capacity. What saudi is doing is basically creating problems then solving them using advanced technology, which is DUMB but most importantly extremely inefficient, they're wasting money, resources, and energy all for what??? An "iconic" building??? Seems desperate. There are zero forest there they can build on most of the land that is available. A building being "big" will NEVER be impressive unless there's an ACTUAL NEED for the building to be this big, like a certain city or region actually NEEDING such a large structure to fulfil their needs. Otherwise it's just for vanity reasons and a complete waste of capital. You know NOTHING about architecture and urban design and it SHOWS
considering they take zero refugees and the only money that leaves the country is to build and staff mega mosques in Europe, while being completely religiously intolerant on their soil, while if you're a Saudi and say, grape or murder a citizen abroad, all you need do is get to an embassy where they will give you a fake passport and a private jet home.
Good to see that we are moving towards judge dredd type of life style where everyone gonna live in giant cubicles inside of the cities even worse shit than soviet blocks.
All jokes about Borg cubes aside though, the structure seems like an impressive, monumental task and if pulled off, accomplishment. My main question though is how are they going to design the foundation for a structure that large and heavy? The amount of pressure that likely exerts downwards would be incredible.
@@philipthecow yeah but the sheer size alone even when only considering the external dimensions of the shape is large enough to be far heavier than any individual skyscraper. I'm not an architect but even i know structures well enough to know at that size and width, there will be plenty of support beams needed on the inside to keep the roof from collapsing in the centre, especially with the added weight of the mini lake they want to build on the roof. the design actually makes no sense to me casus there would need to be a great deal of centre support. The wider a surface is, the more it needs a strong centre to avoid collapsing inwards when the centre point is too far from the edge supports. The whole idea behind demolition is founded on this idea, hence why they take out the central support points to force the structure to collapse within itself rather than toppling in any other direction that may cause collateral damage to surrounding structures.
@@ceejayarby1225 Ground pressure (your original point) is entirely different from handling the large (400m) span. With that said, a 400m span is not entirely unrealistic. It's easy to account for bending forces by just increasing the moment of inertia of the truss that holds something. There are many truss bridges on the order of 400m: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_continuous_truss_bridge_spans I'm not a civil engineer, but according to ChatGPT (admittedly a questionable source) a typical highway bridge supports an average of 72 kPa, the equivalent of 7.34 meters of water with Earth gravity. So it's feasible that the structure will essentially have a bunch of highway bridge like trusses supporting the ceiling, especially considering that any pool probably won't be more than 1 meter deep.
@@philipthecow well i figured the size would require some clever use of physics regarding the foundation cause based on the images, it seems a lot taller than most skycrapers, double at least. My only reference point is the CN tower and even that comparatively small structure required them to do some clever digging into bedrock. And would you want a pool that was a few hundred metres in length and width that was only a meter deep? Seems kind of silly without a deep end if you ask me. And seriously? There's truss bridges that are nearly a half kilometer in length and width that are meant to carry the weight of many people and a ton of water across the entire surface without any support columns or counter balances to keep the centre from collapsing?
@@ceejayarby1225 The cube is going to be approximately the height of the empire state building, but I bet it's going to be significantly less dense, and not have office space on each floor. I imagine the vast majority of the cube will be structural unlike skyscrapers which need to support office space. I showed how there are already truss bridges that would be able to hold the pressure approximately required of the cube. Instead of just saying it's not possible how about making some rough calculations to prove it?
First the line, then the Hexagon, then the Circle and then THE CUBE?? I can't wait to see the construction of Russia, The Star and Argentina with the Hologram.
Which simple geometric shape is next? 🤔 Will the Cube ever be built?
No
I think they should build a pyramid. Nobody's ever tried that before.
How many
@@marmac83 the Pyramids of Giza will always be the best
I think the cube is not getting built.
Just need the "Rectangle" and "Triangle" megaprojects, and the Saudis will have the whole collection
😅😅
The triangle already exists in Egypt. I think they call it the Pyramids. 😅
pyramid cylinder trapezoid sphere too
Or half-moon
*cuboid and prism*
No one wastes money like these guys. Its truly impressive.
Which part of "tourists like to spend their money in Europe" do they not understand? Build something beautiful, not oppressive, futuristic caca. They already have Dubai in the area, struggling to attract interest from tourists and real-estate buyers. This is going to be a colossal failure.
@@sallybrite1530you don’t know anything. asia and middle east will become so populated they’re not relying on tourists but tourists will come. from asia. they love going to the middle east
Tourists are going to Dubaï but its model is not easily reproductible. The head of the project, a megalomaniac king, wants giant holograms and flying cars, he thinks money can buy science fiction technologies, he has no common sens. He is trusting scammers because they are the only ones who can tell him what he wants to hear. These projects will all miserably fail. But everybody needs lessons in life. For the king it's trillions dollar lessons but I thinks that OK if you put aside ecology. A lot of people will feed their family to build this nonsens.
They have no culture to brag/show. People will come once, and never come again. That might be enough though if the world have enough people with enough money.
Bro they are not wasting there money they are going to bankrupt all countries in Asia for funding these shit they will keep on increasing crude oil price and our corrupt politician don't even care about us they will put all burden on poor people already srilanka, Pakistan,nepal, Bangladesh all are struggling bigger country like India and Indonesia are also in a problem
Saudi Arabia it's like a online videogame with numerous updates.
@@augustopinochet1670 I think their salaries are more than your house’s morgage.
@@rindernetz1061 If you stop drinking, talk about the mind
Agreed
people would say same stuff about ancient Egypt with their pyramids.
@A gigantic societal break down will happen it’s funny that I find you in every video about Saudi Arabia commenting negatively lmao
The giant cube is by far my fave seems like a good shape for a mega building
I think the Cube is a lot better than the Line. Better design + easier to build..
The cube is just as dumb as the line; cannot believe you actually said this
@@pyropulseIXXI ok
Just wasting money and having it all built with slave labor. Sad to see so many people idolize petty selfish projects.
@@joekickass2728 saying its better doesnt mean its good
@@joekickass2728 why do slaves keep going to Saudi Arabia. If i were a slave i would choose Brazil or America
Honestly ,this project seems most realistic and easiest then all of the others.
Like-not so remote as others, comparable smaller then others ,etc.
What? This is 4 times larger than the largest building ever
@@prophet3281 lol
@@prophet3281 yeah but compared to something millions of times larger it is at least imaginable.
kowloon part two baby!
Kowloon wasn't built by a rich oil state, try harder.
this is the most realistic project out of all of their ridiculous projects
I see it happening
its still never ever ever going to happen its literally just PR
true and that says a lot about how insane are their projects. At this point I think thy are just trolling.
Yep, much more practically possible than Line.
ridiculous projects! Have you seen your content that you post on TH-cam? It's called ridiculous projects
0:26 just imagine for a moment how out of date the holographic technology will be almost immediately
None of the other major projects they planned got finished, so there is zero chance of this getting done. Jeddah Tower planned for 2020, seems abandoned. Masdar City planned for 2009, is currently hoped to complete by 2030. King Abdullah Economic City planned for 2020, but hardly any of it is done, has 7000 residents instead of the 2 million they were hoping for. I wish that they would concentrate on one thing at a time instead of starting all these new projects and not completing any of them. They like to have grandiose plans but are either unwilling or unable to complete them.
That’s because creating computer renderings of ideas is easy.
Many smaller projects has been built already but isn’t furnished
The king salman (name changed) tower HAS A VERRRYYY LONG STORY basically that the person that leads the build had some debt issues and he can’t continue the build and has been stopped for one year but it is now back under the name of king salman
But you’ve seen the UAE build the burj khalifa? So now saudi arabia a richer a stronger and a larger country can’t build a 1km building
@Meshowz MHM PREVIOUS RULING KING?
This ain’t democracy king salman is still there he is the current ruler and like i said in the first comment IT HAS BEEN STOPPED FOR 1 YEAR FOR LOTS OF REASON EXAMPLE covid 19 but MBS IS THE ONE TO CREATE vision 2030
@@rrealaliee UAE? How about the Palm island project? It is partially finished and erosion is endangering the completed part. Burj Kalifa? They forgot about organising the sewage, trucks are used to transport away all the shit every day. What kind of system is that? Can't even plan regular sewage or in their culture sewage system is unknown?
Honestly, I believe all of saudis projects will be finished. It just would probably happen between 2030-2040. The line has an exception, which would probably be in multiple decades.
Wonderful, I'll be watching how the coming extreme weather plays out ...
Pyramids watch out, the cube has SIX SIDES
The ruins of these megastructures will baffle future archaeologists.
Yeah definitely archeologist in 20 years will be baffled at the people who wanted try build this.
@@Thethyck4445 even the ones that have been built like the Burj Khalifa will definitely not be around long enough for archaeologists to look at
They will just call them mountains
@@americanineverywaybutcitiz2330 mountains of garbage
@@Thethyck4445 is it bad for humans to build big? I don't get it. Building bigger and taller is more efficient and better for city planning than just spreading out endlessly; in a horizontal while destroying more of the environment
This is most realistic project. Good job
I have to say its a practical building, there is more than plenty space to build the cemeteries required to host all the people that will built the project.
at least they will build cemeteries unlike the colonial powers in the west who just let bodies rot in the open
If I was doing it, id chuck em straight to some desert..
What happenf to the line
What do you mean
@@achour.falestine It's another project under construction in Saudi Arabia (NEOM the line) a linear smart city.
The shadow it will produce will be insane
The sun 70% of the time vertical in Saudi arabia
This won't be a huge problem
Shade is good in the desert!
Dredd comes to mind. Love it
Wall, cube, what next ? I’m waiting for the tall cylindrical tower with two huge spherical buildings on either side ! 🤪
😮😮😮😮Saudi just saw hour comment and have announced it on project 2030
To think that people have to live or work inside this gigantic cube (at the center of the building I mean) with no windows to see outside would be a claustrophobic nightmare
windows are a weakness in a climate like theirs
@@user-wx4nv8xr3d they use holes in walls, big brain
@@user-wx4nv8xr3d you guys are so ignorant
It all depends on how the building is constructed. They can use artificial lights to simulate the sun light too, or they can use mirrors to bring sun light inside or they can use inner chambers as maintenance works, warehouses, data centres etc..
HVAC??
If they really manage to complete all these megaprojects, Saudi Arabia is gonna be on a whole another level of architecture
they cant. its just Vanity Projects
@@VoidvonStroke
See you on 2030
@@VoidvonStroke fax, i would believe it if it was some advance aliens saying it
Just in time for sea level climb and ecosystem collapse.
Saudis are building Kaaba Part 2 and this time they will open gates even to non-Muslims, it seems like. Turned out that 🕋, Mecca was just a tourist destination for all these centuries... A way to make money by selling religion and then selling oil and now selling fancy cities...
The surrounding buildings would be so dark! The shadow that that monster casts would be so big!
The inside would be really dark too. They'll constantly have to waste electricity on artificial lighting.
Just imagine the traffic would be an insane nightmare
@@AA123TD haha ya I guess so
@@zionismisterrorism8716 That would be peanuts (esp. with LEDs) compared to its AC bill.
When you live without hot places, you will realize that it is a great blessing 😅
This project is very interesting but how do they plan to control the shadow caused by such a massive building? I can just imagine a part of the city in shadows because of it...
The shadow is probably welcome in such a hot area😂
Maybe they put extremely powerful and expensive drone mounted spot lights powered with renewable energy, it will be called the "الشمس الذهبية" or golden sun.
Reflecting surface, I think melting the surrounding area might be a bigger concern
Like a pyramid without imagination. Perfect.
Cube as just perfect
Yup perfectly boring lol
@T BONE USA has the highest gdp in the world dummy
@T BONE cope
@T BONE united state is going backwards 🤣🤣 their new project about the colors flags how to change genders
This country REALLY likes shapes
This is madness..
I'll come back here after 7 years !!
I lived in the KSA for a year back in 2018. After seeing how things are done over there, let me tell you, it’s laughable to even consider that they’ll be able to pull these things off within the next 100 years… let alone by 2030! There is no fucking way.
Cry louder now😂
I am from Saudi and i understand your point but The reason you say this is because of the reliance on cheap companies with simple workers, but recently attention has been paid to this problem and important projects have been assigned to international companies only.
@@o_ctu1😂😂😂😂
@@o_ctu1وش قصدك
looking forward to see it finished/done/completed...just like the other megastructures like Palm Jumeirah
palm jumeirah is done
it will NEVER happen because : "Saudi Arabia prohibits public non-Muslim religious activities. Non-Muslim worshipers risk arrest, imprisonment, lashing, deportation, and sometimes torture for engaging in overt religious activity that attracts official attention."
This is in Saudi Arabia not uae
Shows your lack of knowledge, please don't talk, you'd sound smarter if kept your mouth shut 🤫
"An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare"
- unknown
Engineers and architects both agree that this project is bullshit.
Cool, they're building the hellraiser cube 😎 great 👍
The City in The Kingdom on Earth is set as a Cube! I love the shape of a square, so of course, I Love The Cube. There is so much BALANCE in a Cube! I Love It!!
I reference Dubai's island project which went bust with most of it unfinished, but which is an ongoing environmental disaster.
My favorite part is the floating rocks.
What about the giant holographic women in bathrobes casually strolling through the place? That looks totally reasonable. And necessary. Just the other day, I was at the grocery shopping for drain cleaner and paper clips, and I thought “How come there are never any 60-foot-tall women in bathrobes strolling around the produce aisle?”
All of these projects together are easier to fulfill than making Brexit work 🙂
Go Saudis! I wish you luck and success!
I like that the Saudis are trying! Everyone else has given up on anything new and exciting. Would like to see these get built.
Really?
Wow. 'The Cube'. Sounds even more practical than 'The Line'. Perhaps these projects could be combined: I suggest 'The Lube'. Because 'The Lube' will make it easier on 'The Rectum'.
Very good work mate.
I think oil is good enough
😅😅
These projects will be the most incredible epic fails in history
and when it comes true, you are going to visit
@@cubes6751 i would - but it will never happen
We will see your fail claim fail with greatest interest
@@vi2e backed by the saudi goverment the cube would at least be possible not the line tho the line would defenetly bankrupt them
@@vi2e the line would maybe be possible if they made it 50m tall but they had to make it 500🤦♂️
This shows how much we take the resources of this world for granted.
When you say "we" you mean that you are involved in the construction of this building? Because if this is one of those arguments of "humanity is bad" you could start thinking that not everyone in humanity is building this stupid cube or even wasting resources.
@IgorEnRed it's a general statement that is about human race.
isn't it granite? i thought it was granite
@@christopher_bryant granite is a rock.
Yes hum Muslims ko Allah is say bhi bohut paida dy Ameen hum sb Muslims ko hum sb ko ek dusray k saath hamasha mohobat se rakhay Ameen
It can be done but the dome has to get smaller relative to the size of the cube. That provides more diagonal bracing for the roof. There actually has to be 2 roofs. One for the lake and one below to drain to the exterior for possible leaks on the lake roof.
I'm sure they will hire the best architects and engineers in the world to solve all problems.
@@swifty1969
And thousands of slaves to construct it!
OK sir, i will make sure to tell them.
@@Legendendear
average american mentality 🤣
@@Better403
Way to assume I'm american.
Im not. Am from central europe.
And am I wrong to assume that this monstrosity will be build by slaves? (If it will be constructed at all)
Let us know when they complete any of their other mega projects first. How many things have they abandoned after starting or had implode because the aesthetics were more important than the engineering?
None… they’re doing all the projects at the same tome
@@alialshehri6977 Yeah, okay, lol. There are projects they started a decade ago that aren't even close to being anywhere near done. I guess the Bangladeshis quit allowing themselves to be lured into slavery after what Dubai did to them.
@@MarxIsDeadAndRotting which projects? Jeddah tower was not a government project.
I live by Neom, I see The Line with my own eyes, there are hundreds of thousands of construction workers and excavators all over the site. They’re dead serious about these vision 2030 projects because it’s backed by our Prince MBS himself.
@@alialshehri6977 Ya ok. But don't your prince realizes that it's impossible to build such a linear city ? We don't have sustainable technology for that, but maybe the saudi family has got no engineering culture
@@orchidahussuhadihcro9862 i think ur mentally ill or something ngl, pls go seek help
i live in Riyadh and yes this cube is gonna be built!
Saudi Arabia is following the same path as Bavaria under King Ludwig II. Building large projects that will remain unfinished, once they run out of money.
I love how these ads show giant stone mountain pillars that reach into the clouds just standing off to the side of the building. Never mind the fact that it's being built in a flat desert city.
You do realize that the city is actually on a hill? Also, current skyscrapers in Riyadh do get surrounded by clouds from time to time.
@@Abdullah-yr4tv Ah ok. I assumed it was flat based on other ad video renderings lol :) Still, those stone pillars with vines growing in the clouds is pure gold.
Those are the holograms and screens mentioned like 30 times in the video.
@@thomassynths Yes it is flat but if your imagination is as wild as MBS reality doesn't really matter so much anyways
@@SyrianApostate do u live there? Have u went there? These are simple questions cause if you’re brainwashed as western/european ppl because of what the media says, you wouldn’t know…. Look your believing of that shows your whole ignorant mind if u take media as a depending source of information, and I don’t give a shit of u like mbs or not, but we Saudi do and we’re with him cause he’s making our country better and one of the tops and you not liking so no one really gives a shit about ur opinion and we all trying our hardest to let these stupid allegations that western countries have said about us to not be believed at all, ppl are not stupid anymore, they go look for themselves especially my generation you seem like an old person who is still stuck with their old mind, dreamers only could do these things and you just keep talking about it cause you literally won’t change a single thing !
The amount of money these guys are spending is craazyyy
The amount of money the construction companies are making off this!
@@alanwann9318 Be hilarious if *They* are the owners or at least their friends are the owners of these companies. And they are doing thig just to shuffle money around.
Gotta spend that criminal income somehow right? And i mean why not? They have a army of forced labour force aka modern day slave labout army. So its ultra cheap actually. They dont have to pay jackshit for the workers. A big portion of cost in moderatly normal countries comes from the actual labour being done on it. But since saudi and many of its friends actually actively engage in slave labour, its way cheaper.
they are saving alot of money cause of dirt cheap labour
اغنى دولة بالعالم ، وهذه اموالنا ونحن راضيين لأننا نحبهم 😌🇸🇦
A Ski Resort in the middle of the desert sounds like an absolutely genius idea.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite dessert is strawberry shortcake.
In case you are aware that not all of Saudi is desert, and it does snow sometimes on mountaintops and gets below freezing even in the desert at night
@@OwnGrid still the country is mostly desert one or two mountains doesn't change anything
@@gaza1677 The Arabian peninsula is mostly desert that is true, but that completely irrelevant as it is the birthplace of civilizations and all major religions
Really the biggest visioneer her country is....truelly genuine
The renderings all somehow keep out the immense shadows this cube will cast at all times of the the day. I wonder what impacts this will have on the ecology immediately adjacent to the cube
Its in the desert, there is no ecology. Only urban area.
All these projects are disasters in the making. One needs only to look at Dubai to see the problems these type of idiotic projects create.
god forbid you have shade in the middle of the desert huh? im sure they dont mind missing out on the sun for 3 hours a day.
@@jamineamina5429 god forbid you shouldn't change ecology. Im sure the geological humidity will be fine, and won't create sink holes after a few years. Not like that has NEVER happened anywhere else, that isn't even a desert...
@@yummychips_ its a god damn render and itll never happen. why are you giving serious engineering cons on this. the whole idea is a mockery of engineering... its essentially sci fi for clicks.
what happens underneath the bases of buildings btw? hows the "geological humidity", right underneath the foundation ever hold up, with it never seeing the light of day?? if youre gonna pull criticisms out of your ass just to refute me, maybe start with the integrity of the ground it would actually sit on, rather than worrying about how surrounding dirt would be affected by shadow cast.
It's beautiful and I can hardly wait to see it in person. I've never been outside the US. I would definitely go if the option was available.
@@slammerton saudi arabia is in asia
@Robin Kli
I guess you visited Saudi and Europe many times to say that, right?
You want to live inside a big cube?
@@SenKu_12 You can keep your dystopian nightmare to yourself. Remember to keep the women fully clothed because you cannot control your sick urges.
@@VideoDotGoogleDotCom That's kinda harsh to say that someone.
"Wheather it makes sense or if it's even possible is another matter" I think I can see a main theme for these Arabian projects 😂
Super excited for these projects, can’t wait for 2030 🫡🇸🇦
Who said you will even be alive.
And all I can think of is When the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the signs of the Final Hour, one of the signs he mentioned was "when you see the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.”. When asked to elaborate further, the Prophet (ﷺ) said that they are from the Arabs
@@asadahmed4993 no one is naked & barefoot here except u, cry about it :(
I remember one mega-project called "Jeddah Tower". Let's see how it's going: holy cannoli, Godfather, that project started in 2013? That was a long time ago! It's finished, right? Ohh Noo! 😱 "Status: ON HOLD"! "Estimated completion: UNKNOWN" Hey, Saudi guys: maybe finish ONE of these projects first. You know, the one you started a DECADE ago? That one.
Exactly. Finish one then we will believe them.
Jeddah tower is a private project, not a government one and the reason that why it's stooped because the owners of it got arrested for corruption (the Ritz Carlton corruption crackdown), and its still on hold ever since.
مشروع جدة حصلت به بعض المشاكل لأن ارضها ارض ملحيّة وليست ارض حقيقية ، وهي تابعة لشخص واحد وليست تابعة للدولة ، على كلٍّ تم تسليم المشروع للدولة لذا سيتم الانتهاء منها
why are you talking like they killed your family chill.weird af
Which one?🙄
Alright, Saudi Arabia is now just throwing away money because they don’t know where to spend it, please some people go ask them for a spare 1 million so they don’t keep doing this projects…
let’s all live in 1 giant building: said no one ever
Imperium of Man: *laughs in Hive City *
This is the most realistic and beautiful project out of the rest
The names are so inspired too. "The line", "The oxagon", "The cube".
Hopefully thru also do "Le Dot" one day
Will definitely go see it if it’s completed… we’ll see in 7 years or so 😉
It's quite unlikely that's gonna happen so soon. The larger a project is the longer it takes to be built and projects much smaller than this one take usually more than 7 years to complete.
الذين يكذّبونها ، لا تأتوا
@@itisabirdنحن نتحدث عن السعودية و ليس عن اي دولة اخرى
@@itisabird the more Advanced the technology and machinery the easier it is to build, only time will tell 🤷🏽
@@Rawan-zh9fk 😂
So...... they're bringing HELLRAISER to life and Pinhead will be our leader. Sweet!!!!
My son in law is working on this project, he is an architectural draughtsman working for a top firm in London,they have a tiny part of the mukaab construction, and it is worth hundreds of millions in revenue, AGAIN, they only have a small percentage of the contract working to gain more as the job ensues, there is no limit when the funds are limitless 😳🤔❤
Anyone heard about a Saudi project called "The Egg"? Nothing precise is known yet about the timetable, the architectual form and the site but it is expected to be ambitious and should be finalized by 2030....
LOL!
This is the most realistic of all their mega projects. But I wish they use their money to convert the whole desert to a vast green forest with a thriving ecosystem.
Yeah but that would make sense and wouldn't make their country's dick look longer to other Arab countries. Gaddafi was going to make Libya green by digging into the enormous underground aquifers but he got... interrupted in the process
They are planning to plant 50 billion tree by the end of 2030
@@snepsa3931 Yeah that'll happen just like all the other things in 2030.
@@johnr797 I mean they already planted about 7+million
@@snepsa3931 and at that pace that definitely puts them at the 1 billion mark. Oh wait, not even that?
We have many people around the world who are starving for food, how would
prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon him would feel about all of this may Allah guide us in the right path!
yes i wonder too how would prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings be upon him would feel about all of this may Allah guide us in the right path! like right now i am wondering about it , ! peacefully and!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not know how to pray in order to criticize the country that started Islam. We are not obligated to feed every human being on this planet. Work in your country so that you can eat and do not wait for charity from other countries.
middle east
Architect- This is the size of this new project
sheikh- okay, But how many empire state building it can fit in ??
They couldn't even finish the Jeddah Tower and yet they keep on planning to build these mega projects.
jeddah tower is not a government project
Jeddah tower is not a government project, it was some private rich guy’s project. These project are part of Vision 2030 and they’re serious about it.
Exactly!
that is private I think
omg this project would totally change the world,fully surprised by this and inspiring
How does a vanity project change the world?
Wait till they find out about triangles and start a project called "pyramid"
I’m watching this in Saudi Arabia and I’m from Saudi Arabia
mabye spend that money to raise the remaining 14% of the population out of poverty? big cube is cool to i guess.
A 14% poverty rate is a wild underestimate, too … Saudi Arabia’s population is not just citizens, but comprises in large part migrant laborers and undocumented immigrants from all over the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and beyond, who often serve as de facto slave labor for these obscene mega-projects. (Saudi Arabia in fact largely subsidizes the lavish lifestyle of its sprawling monarchy with slave labor, an obscenity which the industrialized world largely ignores in exchange for the steady flow of oil.) If we, as we should, regard Saudi Arabia’s population as being not just the kingdom’s citizens but in fact all its residents - or, in the nomenclature of absolute monarchies, “subjects,” ugh … didn’t France have a whole revaluation over shit like this?? - then the poverty rate is considerably higher than 14%, and probably closer to, *at a minimum,* 34% … and probably much higher, but the Saudi government is notoriously opaque with its figures and routinely blocks the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights from accessing economic data.
Although all of these megaprojects look cool as fuck, l'm wondering if they are getting ahead of themselves being a little over ambitious working on 3 of them simultaneously, they should just focus on one at a time
Yeah! Like maybe first finish Kingdom Tower LOL
That's what I was thinking. To fund multiple projects at once just seems short sighted - money problems happen, and if you're dividing that money between multiple sights not even one thing will get done.
There is over 100 mega projects under constructions in Saudi right now
@@RS-nc8sf But not on the insane scale as these 3 mentioned in the video now are there?
The Kingdom tower is a private development by business men not government the government can finish mega projects Paris was a government mega project when it was built not a private project .
Mukaab will be a great treat for the fantasy lovers🖤
Perfect video. Thanks
Now they just need a giant air conditioner in the sky.
It could cool all of saudi arabia.
@@jamesbritton635
Don't worry, Arabia will be back green naturally in future its a prophecy and must be fulfilled
@@قآھړآلْطۈآغڀٿ yepp right, the dooms day prophecy, and looks they want to speed up the doomsday by competing in constructing tall building
@@힐만94
Thats already happened, the dooms day started by the establishment of Israel and it will be major signs after the end of Israel
@@힐만94 imagine the number of people who doubted the Prophet's prophecy on the tall buildings thing 1400 years ago lol
And also an ambitious Project which should be build in Riyad is an still unnamed skyscraper which should rise to a height of 2000 meters. I read about this on some websites
I think they’re calling it NorthPole Riyadh. But it’s NOT official, they’re still working on it.
@@alialshehri6977 yeah that's what I also read...hope they will update more information
I think Saudi Arabia are planning on making all the dice used in Dungeons & Dragons. This being the d6 and the Oxigon being the d20. The Line being... ehhh... the dice tower?
How is an octagon the d20??
amazing project
With the Line in the sand being built in a hole in the desert, wouldn't it be susceptible to being buried by sand every time there is a sand storm?
Yea, but that's assuming the project will ever be completed lol
If its not covered in sand, it will be covered in human feces.
most of the Kingdom's terrain is mountainous, and there are no harmful sandstorms. Only a little dust may cover the sky.😂😂😂😂😂
@AA123879 most of it is actual sand. Sandstorm are not rare.
@@deeptoot1453 Did you live in Saudi Arabia? If you do not live, you cannot speak. We are the people of this land and we know the nature of the Saudi lands. We built our homes ourselves and we know the difference between sand and rocks. Most of our areas are rocky and the sandy areas are well-known and clear, like the Nafud Desert. Yes, there are cases of dust, “but” it does not damage homes or damage skyscrapers, just medium-speed winds. It is loaded with dust and the effect of dust in the Middle East regions is incomparable to the effect and damage of rain in other countries. With all love and respect 🌹
I really hope the Vision 2030 megaprojects succeed! It would be nice to visit them for my 24th birthday when they open.
Mine too 😂
@@gamesxfames8608 Oh nice, you were born in 2006?
@@ibrahimazam7699 yup
Same 06
Really thats your wish
Its should be a warning to us of the coming of the dajjal
Beautiful cube. Even the outside design is intriguing. If they build it, I will come.
These mega project sounds great but imagine the maintainance.
So... what is the fire escape plan in this building? Will there be underground fire safe exits? This entire building has electricity running to literally every inch of the perimeter. One fire incident and it’s all going up.
Good question, but I think like The Line they’ll use a futuristic water system that takes care of all parts of the building in case of fires.
wow nice video 😀
Congratulation you uploaded your 100th video😇
beautiful places, I really liked the video, very interesting
I have one question. Who will clean the outer walls of the cube after a sand storm??
Perhaps they will make it dust and sand resistant.
Drones
It sure looks like the leaders of Saudi Arabia come up with some highly unusual ideas for cities and buildings. This plan for a huge cube shaped building reminds me of the cube shaped space ship of the Borg on Star Trek. A giant size cube is an ugly shape for a building and will likely be impractical common uses.
the borg was my first thought as well.
they might have inspired from or wanted to honour the Kaaba, the sacred building in Mecca which is a cube.
A cube is literally the most practical building to build and use spaces the most
The first thing that came to my mind was a cube...
The Cube aka The Allspark
The artefact that gave life to the entire Transformers Universe(movies)
It is an create and destroy anything and everything
Oh, there's no need to mask it using "unusual" you can say out loud "stupid" :)
The ground level temperature facing the Sun in front of the New Marabba would be insanely hot.
so does anybody else notice how there are all of these mega projects in the work that are being marketed and priced to the rich and ultra rich? I mean, how much is it going to cost to stay here? I'm sure that I can't afford it. So it would appear that the people who study and make their livelihoods on the trends of the market, that there is greater despair between the classes.
Its saudi? Duh! One of the most classist countries in the world, actively employing modern day slave labour, owh oops sorry forced labour force.
That country doing anything even slightly classist *gasp* who would have thought that🙋♂️
20% finished of these projects? Probably true, can't imagine they will build any more than 5 times of what's standing by now before quitting construction...
According to NEOMs CEO 20% of the infrastructure is completed, but this does not mean that 20% of the megaprojects (Line, Oxagon, Trojena, etc.) is completed.
What the Fukk are football pitches?
Dont worry the slave labor will finish it
I love that these projects are making us excited and hopeful for the future
Cube aside I love the creativity, visuals and the rendering of this. They should really go into creating sci-fi / virtual reality films and entertainment.
You are ignoring the fact that Saudi Arabia is full of giant projects since the seventies, the Great Mosque of Mecca, Medina, Jubail, Yanbu Industrial, giant military cities, there is nothing strange. They will succeed in all projects.
None of these are as big and ridiculous as these. Also, these mega projects are based on ACTUAL, sustainable NEEDS....these new ones are just made so they can have large sources of income after their oil is depleted, and there's nothing wrong with that. But there are WAY much better, more sustainable ways to diversify your economy other than building the Biggest X, Y, Z
@@LO-dm6uf none of those are as cool as humanity building a true megastructure though. The future is coming
@@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 so the future is us building something that is just BIGGER??? That's IT??? With no ACTUAL valid reason to why it should be that big??? The future is us building sustainable buildings using state of art technologies to achieve new limits for comfort and convenience. Building a big ass cube for no reason is literally the opposite. This is literally ABC architectural design but i don't expect you to understand it
@@LO-dm6uf *No* , the future is realizing that 'proof -of-concept' megastructures like these actually being built can be the next step of evolution for civil engineering and city planning. All we currently do is horizontal expansion and deforestation when, in reality, vertical expansion is way more efficient and ecofriendly with our growing population. If I need to use Saudi Arabia's mega ambitious projects to show that megastructures is the next step of evolution for us then I will. Hence why this is fascinating. Hopefully, decades later, other countries will start to build skyscraper high arcologies to house a large population efficiently and more compactly.
@@theonlythingihavetosayis9333 vertical expansion is NOT more eco friendly or efficient. Vertical expansion only makes sense if you have no arable land left to build on like Japan where most of Jaoan's area is rocky mountains.
Otherwise, skyscrapers are literally the opposite of effeciency, the amount of infrastructure, and structure needed to support and supply them is HUGE compared to medium rise buildings of the same capacity.
What saudi is doing is basically creating problems then solving them using advanced technology, which is DUMB but most importantly extremely inefficient, they're wasting money, resources, and energy all for what??? An "iconic" building??? Seems desperate. There are zero forest there they can build on most of the land that is available. A building being "big" will NEVER be impressive unless there's an ACTUAL NEED for the building to be this big, like a certain city or region actually NEEDING such a large structure to fulfil their needs. Otherwise it's just for vanity reasons and a complete waste of capital. You know NOTHING about architecture and urban design and it SHOWS
The tower-inside-a-dome-inside-a-cube idea is quite clever.
very ambitious projects.
It's sad to see all that wealth being squandered on vanity mega-projects
So true
considering they take zero refugees and the only money that leaves the country is to build and staff mega mosques in Europe, while being completely religiously intolerant on their soil, while if you're a Saudi and say, grape or murder a citizen abroad, all you need do is get to an embassy where they will give you a fake passport and a private jet home.
Their money, their choice.
The "wealth" isn't being squandered. Wealth is created, not mined.
So I guess no wealthy visionary In this world can build something big? Stop denying the evolution of civil engineering
I ❤ the idea. I hope they do complete it.
The cube truly is like something out of a science fiction movie isnt it? Im so gonna go and visit it when its built !
You be dead🥱
Unfortunately you'll be dead by then unless you can like to 200 years old
Yes like the borg cube in Star Trek…
Saudis are gonna start building their Cube on the day the Borg visit the Earth (that is - never).
Had to check captions at "...Najdi architecture..." :D
Good to see that we are moving towards judge dredd type of life style where everyone gonna live in giant cubicles inside of the cities even worse shit than soviet blocks.
I was also thinking Judge Dredd mega-city. From what I hear about the Saudi police, it's fairly appropriate...
All jokes about Borg cubes aside though, the structure seems like an impressive, monumental task and if pulled off, accomplishment. My main question though is how are they going to design the foundation for a structure that large and heavy? The amount of pressure that likely exerts downwards would be incredible.
It seems pressure wise it would not be any more than any other sky scraper. Possibly less since it seems that most of the cube would be empty space.
@@philipthecow yeah but the sheer size alone even when only considering the external dimensions of the shape is large enough to be far heavier than any individual skyscraper. I'm not an architect but even i know structures well enough to know at that size and width, there will be plenty of support beams needed on the inside to keep the roof from collapsing in the centre, especially with the added weight of the mini lake they want to build on the roof. the design actually makes no sense to me casus there would need to be a great deal of centre support. The wider a surface is, the more it needs a strong centre to avoid collapsing inwards when the centre point is too far from the edge supports. The whole idea behind demolition is founded on this idea, hence why they take out the central support points to force the structure to collapse within itself rather than toppling in any other direction that may cause collateral damage to surrounding structures.
@@ceejayarby1225 Ground pressure (your original point) is entirely different from handling the large (400m) span.
With that said, a 400m span is not entirely unrealistic. It's easy to account for bending forces by just increasing the moment of inertia of the truss that holds something. There are many truss bridges on the order of 400m: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_continuous_truss_bridge_spans
I'm not a civil engineer, but according to ChatGPT (admittedly a questionable source) a typical highway bridge supports an average of 72 kPa, the equivalent of 7.34 meters of water with Earth gravity. So it's feasible that the structure will essentially have a bunch of highway bridge like trusses supporting the ceiling, especially considering that any pool probably won't be more than 1 meter deep.
@@philipthecow well i figured the size would require some clever use of physics regarding the foundation cause based on the images, it seems a lot taller than most skycrapers, double at least. My only reference point is the CN tower and even that comparatively small structure required them to do some clever digging into bedrock. And would you want a pool that was a few hundred metres in length and width that was only a meter deep? Seems kind of silly without a deep end if you ask me. And seriously? There's truss bridges that are nearly a half kilometer in length and width that are meant to carry the weight of many people and a ton of water across the entire surface without any support columns or counter balances to keep the centre from collapsing?
@@ceejayarby1225 The cube is going to be approximately the height of the empire state building, but I bet it's going to be significantly less dense, and not have office space on each floor. I imagine the vast majority of the cube will be structural unlike skyscrapers which need to support office space.
I showed how there are already truss bridges that would be able to hold the pressure approximately required of the cube. Instead of just saying it's not possible how about making some rough calculations to prove it?
It is default cube from blender ❤
The one that everyone deletes before they do a rendering.
1:46 The Line trains when the Nvidia notification comes on:
First the line, then the Hexagon, then the Circle and then THE CUBE??
I can't wait to see the construction of Russia, The Star and Argentina with the Hologram.