The next CGITopia on the docket: The Mukaab ("The Cube") proposed for Riyadh. A 400-meter metallic cube enclosing... a 300 meter tower designed by the Childlike Empress (no, not ours, the one in Neverending Story) and the world's largest VR rig? WTF?
Their Web page: https://newmurabba.com
Typical gushing video (some others on the same topic are more critical or skeptical about financing, technical feasibility, etc.):
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At least the hype for this one doesn't include the usual fatuous "generates all its own renewable energy" claim, but it does hit the currently popular "15 minute" cliché. (If there's any place planned for the service workers to live, within 15 car-free minutes of their workplaces among the amenities of the "New Murabba" district, I'll eat a 300-meter-tall fungus tower.)
Their Web page: https://newmurabba.com
Typical gushing video (some others on the same topic are more critical or skeptical about financing, technical feasibility, etc.):
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At least the hype for this one doesn't include the usual fatuous "generates all its own renewable energy" claim, but it does hit the currently popular "15 minute" cliché. (If there's any place planned for the service workers to live, within 15 car-free minutes of their workplaces among the amenities of the "New Murabba" district, I'll eat a 300-meter-tall fungus tower.)
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/0rIKbam
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