Despite in a country as Saudi Arabia where excess is often the norm, the plans for the Mirror Line project are eye popping. If completed, The two buildings will reach 1,600 feet into the sky—likely near 150 stories—and will run parallel for 75 miles. The price tag on the complex? A jaw dropping trillion dollars.
Uphorial reports that The Mirror Line is the pet project of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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The 75-Mile Long Skyscraper will house roughly 5 million people and will include a high-speed train under the buildings to let people move about in it. Other amenities include a sports stadium, which will stretch 1,000 feet in the sky, a yacht marina and vertical farming to ensure residents have enough food. Residents will pay a subscription to be served breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Mirror Line will consist of two mirrored buildings, crossing mountain and desert terrain, connected by walkways. And it’s part of a development called Neom, which Prince Mohammed envisions being roughly the same size as Massachusetts. Planners don’t have long to design the structure, either. Saudi officials have given then a completion deadline of 2030.
Financing a project of this scale, of course, is dependent on financing which will require demand for Saudi oil, something that has been on the wane in recent years, given the country’s human rights record. But as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, Western nations are reconsidering their boycotts, even as oil prices increase.
Prince Mohammed first unveiled plans for this linear city last January, saying it would have no cars and zero pollution.
