Yeah, Masterworks again. With close to 3m subscribers, they should offer you a load of cash. But these adverts never point out the risks of these so-called alternative investments. One wonders if you comply with the UK's FCA rules.
@@samuela-aegisdottir The Saudis are missing a golden opportunity by not genetically modifying turtles to be the size of islands for people to live on.
I think it would be better if they tried to incorporate their traditional architecture and art into it and also be fitting of Arabia environment instead of being tacky projects.
I would rather go to a clean city with great public transport and several small cultural attractions (like tokyo) than an unclean city with one big attraction (like dubai)
@@geode9512I’d love to go to…but probably a city that’s a little more civilized? I hear they treat women like second class citizens and also brown people…
@@LordCroker look at how the “workers” are living. Ever wonder why Gulf Arabs have no real respect? Oh yeah, they also don’t give citizenship to non-Arabs.
Yeah absolutely and also they have to compete with Egypt and Port Jebel ali in Dubai wich is already well established. and Egypt could undercut on Harbour fees they already earn a fortune just on Suez canal passings. And also the floating part of the Octagon will be very expspensive if not impossible to maintain cant put that thing into a drydock for Refurbishement. i dont know much about the seabed in the redsea and seismic activity but you are also never tottaly safe from a tsunami wave most places that would tottaly wreck the floating parts.
@@Infernal_Elf I was thinking about the rust and maintenance issue as well. I hadn't thought of seismic activity but it's not far from the East African Rift System so yeah that could be an issue.
I still can't believe they've actually started digging the line. What's the controversy around the Foster and Partners airport? I think it would have been cool to see where all of these projects are in relation to each other and how they're connected, since several of them are part of NEOM. Would love to have a proper long-form video on the logistics/feasibility of these projects when more information comes out (if more information comes out, and this isn't as much as we'll learn until they're all started/built.)
My native town is Cagliari, Sardinia. It's a touristic city on a tourist island. The city itself has around 400k inhabitants, with 1.5 million inhabitants on the entire island. The airport of the town is a medium to small size airport. It had 4 million passengers in 2018. That will basically be the Concorde of airports and it will fail for the same reason. Nobody will use it.
They've started digging the Line mostly for PR purposes, to show the world that something is being done. Everything else published about The Line shows the project still being at the concept stage at best. There are no design drawings, construction plans, tender announcements, or anything that says: "we're building *this*, *here*, and *then*." Just fancy concept renders and grandiose visions. That's where it will most likely remain too, except over time there will be this really long trench in the desert as they keep digging to give the impression that work is ongoing.
The Line will be the coolest dystopian city ever to exist for 4 years until if starts to literally crumble and also roaming gangs take over different sections.
I love how they have practically infinite space, and still choose to build half an octagon ON THE OCEAN while restricting access to their 'mega port'. Truly 4D chess
@@S28426Yes, because it's in a controlled inner coast. When it's built up, then it's basically a coastal city. And if it's just a regular coastal city, then there's nowhere near the incentives for investors to invest nor potential buyers to buy properties in the place.
They learnt nothing from Dubai's failed projects then. If these projects are supposed to be a diversification of the economy from oil, that implies they expect them to bring money into the country in the long term. They need to understand that there's a very limited number of people who can spend the kind of money these projects will have to charge to make a profit.
but that would mean that they have to pay their workers to actually have enough money to use the stuff that they build and you know how much investors, share-holders and billionaires hate paying their workers their fair share yeah, these projects are fucked and likely won't see completion unless they deliberately decide to get rid of the profit motive (and even then, it's unlikely)
@@teenytinytoons I mean those countries are like the safest places on the planet and crime is basically non existent. But that comes as a result of their political system.
Builders aren't supposed to ever step into a shopping mall after it's built in India, exactly the cheap type of suppressed labourers these projects need
The ski resort is probably also going to happen, though I'm not sure about its long-term viability. For everything else, if oil prices dip in the next 10 years, they're all doomed.
Its also the airport for the port, the ski resort AND The Line. So lets see, 9 mullion people in The Line, 1 million a year through the shared airport. Yeah, no-one who ever enters there is going to be allowed to leave...
@Himanshu Singh..some airports do it in “a-day” that is one day at least a million travellers. :D. But I think that airport is supposed to cater for luxury travel exclusively.
The airport is being built basically to kickstart a new city from scratch near the Red sea. But yeah, constructing the airport first extravagantly, with a town in its budding state seems out of place, or maybe the town in itself is just for the uber riches only with their own private airport?
Or they could just forget these dumb mega projects and build useful stuff like sustainable infrastructure and transit projects within their existing cities to cut down on car emissions
@@bababababababa6124 If your whole society just consists out of lazy rich petrol heads, reducing car emissions is probably not your first goal. Even though they probably wont have any say in that though. But for real, those projects seems like the ideas of a 12 y.o. with infinite money. Whats the plan here? Tourism wont save their asses, when the world stop buying oil. Id try to get into key technology, R&D the next energy source. They have infinite sunshine ... invest in energy storage ffs ... anything but "giant cubes and lines" ....
@@bababababababa6124 Exactly!!! Invest in the future development of actual infrastructure in their populated cities and not on these dismal vanity projects! What a waste.
Yeah honestly this is probably the more sound idea... These project basically show that people getting rich through capitalism miss allocate capital to no end.
This is gonna make some contractors, architecture firms, designers, and highly skilled workers really really rich. Being an engineer I wish I had a job in some NEOM project lolz.
"I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away" - Percey Shelley
Can you do a series of videos on what an arcology is, their challenges, and technology needed and where they are likely built based on proposed arcology projects. They are really the buildings of science fiction yet we are so close to building such a structure.
Arcologies are a major feature in Peter f Hamilton's early books that he wrote in 1990s; the world population had to live in massive covered cities with shields cos of how badly we screwed up the environment..
@@hannesarved Many ski resorts even in Norway are Quite depedent on artificial snow these days. all u need is sub zero temperature and alot of water and power and snow makers. not eco friendly or cheap but absolutely possible. Pretty much all of the slopes and such in the 2022 Beijing winter olympics had artificial snow. should never had been hosted there because of human rights and pollution but they did achive it.
@@Infernal_Elf Still there is nature in Europe. After the Olympic construction projects, more and more ruins remain. Solid losses for local budgets and a headache for support services. I don't mind at all if the project is successful. A lot of useful things will be developed and tested.
They should make a new Great Pyramid. Not just something that has a pyramid shape, but actually made from giant 10 ton blocks, and clad with polished limestone with a golden cap, which is what the existing pyramids would have had in their heyday.
They should make them upside down. NOW that would look impressive. After all, if we are going to make stupid projects that will surely fail, at least go for something fun.
@@theancientsancients1769 Completely different scenarios. Burj Khalifa is one stupid building with no plumbing. Pretty sure the most iconic thing about it is the caravan of poop trucks every morning, and the smell. But still, one building, golf claps all around. It's half a mile tall and the line is 500 miles long. You see the difference? The amount of materials required, I can't even wrap my head around, nevermind the time it's gonna take. Will MBS even be alive by the time it's done? Imagine all the other projects and innovative designs people are gonna make in the next century as this stupid pipe dream slowly comes together. Someone said in these comments that sometimes it's better to learn lessons from your own mistakes than just looking at what happened to others to avoid making the same mistakes. Well, the line is gonna be an expensive, life long lesson then. And if they forgo plumbing again, imagine the traffic jams cause of poop trucks. Or heck, if they do also do 500 miles of plumbing, just imagine someone clogging up the system, then it's down for everyone.
@@theancientsancients1769 if you can't figure out how unbelievably stupid this project is, you are endowed with mediocre education and less than average IQ, my friend.
Honestly why not? Half the world & countless brits seem to be moving there for some reason. It's booming by most metrics. I don't like it, never have not my cup of tea but it's generally good for a world full of migration iwthn owehre for people to go. Full of American dream migrants & success stories. Good on em I say
It's interesting how the aim is to be more like Dubai, but they don't seem to understand what it is that made Dubai so successful in the first place. Other than Emirates Airline, the core reasons are business-friendly regulations, safety, competent government, an open approach to immigration and cheap energy, not glitzy projects that have attracted so many to Dubai.
No matter how many mega projects they're gonna develop in the future, they would still be directed to the wealthy who comprise a tiny fraction of the population.
Because I am human my first reaction was apprehension and slight repulsion because of how artificial everything appears to be in these mega-structures... while I don't necessarily want to live in any of these megastructures I do appreciate these megastructures on an architectural level and on a artistic level because just WOW look at all those ideas. Lastly, this video was well done B1M. You are continuously the definitive channel for construction. You all do such a marvelous job behind the scenes to produce such wonderful videos.
I'm in the same boat. They will need people to want to live there though, there will be an abundance of housing and if not filled with people buying second homes or people wanting to live as a community then it will fall into crime and disarray like similar projects.
He knows who is going to pay him to promote these very disasters in the making. Doesn't want to alienate the very hand that's going to be feeding him soon.
The B1M has been much more skeptical about these projects in the various earlier videos dedicated to each of them. This video was simply an overview of the top 5.
I agree, I would’ve liked to see him rip into these projects more and roast them, but to be fair this video is just supposed to be an overview of the top mega projects in the country now. To be fair we have Adam Something for that too 😂
Agreed. Literally 30 seconds of him saying 'there are human rights issues and they need good PR' followed by 'anyway, here's the amazing list of projects.' Disappointing that he's giving them the good PR.
The airport is almost done, and if you look at the renders at 7:37 you already see that those cars riding there will never happen. Also, in one of these renders you see a woman without a hijab, which signals to me as those video renders are only for positive PR.
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Fundamentally, climate change is going to render large parts of the Persian Gulf unsuitable for human habitation for part of the year. Not just 'uncomfortably hot' but 'you will die if you're outside for any length of time'. Once the oil wealth runs out, I really struggle to imagine how any economy can overcome the competitive disadvantage of that. I guess I can't really blame gulf governments for trying anyway, but still.
6:36 - That's one fully upgraded Civilization 6 tile on a desert map - but it doesn't change the fact that the adjacent tiles have no yield! Hopefully there's at least some fish resources, or maybe a natural wonder which offers science benefits. Because that's not looking like a good start! XD
And mind you, that “Paris” is habitable, there is also a “Moscow” looking city there too, and empty. I can only imagine the line might appeal eccentric millionaires, but there aren’t enough of them who would move there just because.
WHAT?? Tianducheng has normal density - 1000 people per square kilometer for recently built city it's quite good result especially when we are talking about touristic destination
With the "Paris in China" city, at least they weren't defying the rules of economics and urban planning. I bet not even a single module of the line would be successfully built, let alone look like the renders.
@@adventurefaps9571 don't knock it unless you have tried it. I did more sex, drugs and rock n roll in those four years than at any other time in my life. You need some Adventures in the real world rather than the Internet....
The projects are way too fragmented and all over different places. I think they should have just concentrated on on city and see how it turns out. Also the 'Cube' would've a better(slightly practical) idea to start city given the fact that its an Islam nation over the line instead. A 400mx400m cube at a center of the city would be like the Burja Khalifa in Dubai giving you that extravagant and shock value reeling in tourist!
Same here. I bet we will see many fundamental changes this decade on how the world works. My educated guess is that AI, household robots, cheap abundant green energy, self driving vehicles and massively increased computing power (through quantum computing) and some massive breakthroughs in medical field will shape our lives. In the 2000s we got broadband internet and smartphones, in the 2010s we got social media, very powerful machine learning tools for businesses. 2020s already expanded the trend of "content creation as a job", and I believe we will still see very noticeable changes in our lifestyles this decade.
Nice video as always! As an Arabian I have little hope in the success of these projects, except maybe the more economical-related structures. That line is never gonna be what they promised and maybe will be left as a ruin I think... But if they succeed this will be a huge milestone in architecture.
Considering peak oil is already taking place, the best urban design will be human-scale, walkable neighbourhoods, rather than fossil-fuel dependent habitats.
Most likely to happen: 1. Fancy Airport 2. The Cube 3. Floating City 4. The Line 5. Desert Ski Resort What I would be most excited for: 1. The Line 2. The Cube 3. Floating City 4. Fancy Airport 5. Desert Ski Resort
Let me correct this comment… Most likely to happen: 1. None 2. Of 3. These 4. Projects 5. Will ever be completed, or if they miraculously are they will never be successful. What we are excited for: 1. N/A 2. None 3. N/A 4. None 5. N/A
the line actually holds some promise, because all they have to do is build a small section of it in order to prove the concept, and expand from there if needed.
I won't lie, these are all dystopian as hell. Makes me want to move into a cabin somewhere in the forests of Canada. At any rate, to live in a place that has and appreciates character and history and an urban fabric that fits the land and has developed over time, and not all this weird, cyberpunk crap.
While one or two of these projects *might* eventually turn a profit, I suspect the world will never see more expensive dumpster fires than most of these. It truly is mindboggling just how much money is being frivolously wasted on these giga-vanity projects.
Don't come and we don't want you. We target our brothers in Asia and Russia. We don't want Europeans and Americans. Shut up. Don't interfere in our affairs and lecture us.
@Stezika15 The one who guessed the direction of the future successfully emerges from the crisis. This is what free systems are for, where there are a lot of independent ideas, you never know what will turn out to be successful. One way or another, most ideas will fail, so that a small percentage will become a trend. But they have authoritarianism, as far as I remember, and with a high probability it will fall along with oil.
I hope these projects come into fruition and prosper as intended - otherwise, it would be a massive waste of time, money, and effort. I'm interested to see how things turn out. Who knows? The world could soon have another Dubai or Singapore to gawk over.
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Oh, puh-leeze. You've got nearly 3 million subs and you're peddling this garbage? Way to lose a subscription.
Yeah, Masterworks again. With close to 3m subscribers, they should offer you a load of cash. But these adverts never point out the risks of these so-called alternative investments. One wonders if you comply with the UK's FCA rules.
A bullshit sponsor for bullshit projects. How fitting.
What is more likely to happen is that in 30-50 years, there will be some very fantastic-looking ruins scattered across the Arabian Peninsula.
Partially completed ruins.
Yet you'll sit there with a drink that has a dissolved paper straw and think: "well at least I've done my part to save the planet". Clown world 😂
@@MikkelKjrJensen I don't think
@@johnpminis economics my be but physics i don;t think
We already have the Jedda Tower
Gotta love that part that shows the person FLOATING IN THE AIR, goes to show you how grounded these ideas truly are.
Yes. People and trees (0:50) flying in the visualizations - really a prove that thic project is thoroughly planned and not someone's fantasy.
It was actually someone jumping from the roof, they just rewound the footage for PR purposes..
@@samuela-aegisdottir The Saudis are missing a golden opportunity by not genetically modifying turtles to be the size of islands for people to live on.
@@nickv1212 you just want to make your avatar fantasy come to life, which is understandable. Living island is rad!
I think it would be better if they tried to incorporate their traditional architecture and art into it and also be fitting of Arabia environment instead of being tacky projects.
Agreed. These projects have no soul.
Read about diriyah Gate
I would rather go to a clean city with great public transport and several small cultural attractions (like tokyo) than an unclean city with one big attraction (like dubai)
@@geode9512I’d love to go to…but probably a city that’s a little more civilized? I hear they treat women like second class citizens and also brown people…
@AzureWolf They can do that later or incorporated it into the current plans, people like cool futuristic things so they're leaning into that.
I could imagine that in the next decades these megaprojects will become massive slums like in some dystopian Sci-Fi movies.
like Dubai?
@@emmanuilushka is Dubai a slum?
@@LordCroker look at how the “workers” are living.
Ever wonder why Gulf Arabs have no real respect?
Oh yeah, they also don’t give citizenship to non-Arabs.
@@LordCroker it was sarcasm.
@@emmanuilushka Dubai is still run with the oil money. What happens when Dubai needs to become self-sustaining? Can it?
The port is the only one I see having potential success. But it looks like it's overdimensioned for what they actually have a use for there.
Yeah absolutely and also they have to compete with Egypt and Port Jebel ali in Dubai wich is already well established. and Egypt could undercut on Harbour fees they already earn a fortune just on Suez canal passings. And also the floating part of the Octagon will be very expspensive if not impossible to maintain cant put that thing into a drydock for Refurbishement. i dont know much about the seabed in the redsea and seismic activity but you are also never tottaly safe from a tsunami wave most places that would tottaly wreck the floating parts.
Also the Ski resort. They only need to bring down the temperature a bit further to have loads of snow at 2600 m above sea level.
They just HAD to put the houses on water to make it look cool on renders, building space is definitely the constraint when building in a desert right?
@@Infernal_Elf I was thinking about the rust and maintenance issue as well. I hadn't thought of seismic activity but it's not far from the East African Rift System so yeah that could be an issue.
The airport seems plausible as a hub but I don't see anything else here working out.
I still can't believe they've actually started digging the line.
What's the controversy around the Foster and Partners airport?
I think it would have been cool to see where all of these projects are in relation to each other and how they're connected, since several of them are part of NEOM. Would love to have a proper long-form video on the logistics/feasibility of these projects when more information comes out (if more information comes out, and this isn't as much as we'll learn until they're all started/built.)
My native town is Cagliari, Sardinia. It's a touristic city on a tourist island. The city itself has around 400k inhabitants, with 1.5 million inhabitants on the entire island. The airport of the town is a medium to small size airport. It had 4 million passengers in 2018.
That will basically be the Concorde of airports and it will fail for the same reason. Nobody will use it.
They've started digging the Line mostly for PR purposes, to show the world that something is being done. Everything else published about The Line shows the project still being at the concept stage at best. There are no design drawings, construction plans, tender announcements, or anything that says: "we're building *this*, *here*, and *then*." Just fancy concept renders and grandiose visions. That's where it will most likely remain too, except over time there will be this really long trench in the desert as they keep digging to give the impression that work is ongoing.
They are only going to complete a few kilometers and then stop. There’s no way they’ll ever complete that.
The Line will be the coolest dystopian city ever to exist for 4 years until if starts to literally crumble and also roaming gangs take over different sections.
@@Laneous14 cool!
I love how they have practically infinite space, and still choose to build half an octagon ON THE OCEAN while restricting access to their 'mega port'.
Truly 4D chess
They only have the “gimmick” to bring tourists in. There’s quite literally no reason to visit the Middle East apart from work.
But that infinite space is just desert. Not exactly a hospitable environment.
@@georgehill3087 is the ocean any more hospitable?
@@S28426Yes, because it's in a controlled inner coast. When it's built up, then it's basically a coastal city. And if it's just a regular coastal city, then there's nowhere near the incentives for investors to invest nor potential buyers to buy properties in the place.
They learnt nothing from Dubai's failed projects then. If these projects are supposed to be a diversification of the economy from oil, that implies they expect them to bring money into the country in the long term. They need to understand that there's a very limited number of people who can spend the kind of money these projects will have to charge to make a profit.
but that would mean that they have to pay their workers to actually have enough money to use the stuff that they build and you know how much investors, share-holders and billionaires hate paying their workers their fair share
yeah, these projects are fucked and likely won't see completion unless they deliberately decide to get rid of the profit motive (and even then, it's unlikely)
No one also wants to be dismembered
@@teenytinytoons I mean those countries are like the safest places on the planet and crime is basically non existent. But that comes as a result of their political system.
@@Matt-fh4bk Yeah it's the government that does the beheading of opponents, political or religious.
Builders aren't supposed to ever step into a shopping mall after it's built in India, exactly the cheap type of suppressed labourers these projects need
My prediction: Apart from the airport, none of these projects will ever be realized. But they make for great headlines.
The ski resort is probably also going to happen, though I'm not sure about its long-term viability. For everything else, if oil prices dip in the next 10 years, they're all doomed.
@@abdullat9264 Sindalah is also doable. Line and Oxagon are pipe dreams in my opinion.
just like 1km building that they never finished
@@abdullat9264 Oil price won't dip, because if it does, they will just cut production with OPEC, driving up the cost.
1 million passengers a year by 2030? Thats what the biggest airports in the world now do in less than a week..
Its also the airport for the port, the ski resort AND The Line. So lets see, 9 mullion people in The Line, 1 million a year through the shared airport. Yeah, no-one who ever enters there is going to be allowed to leave...
@Dair Allan actually this airport is not for Neom, the airport for neom is called "Neom airport" and its already been built.
The busiest airports (not airport) do that in just 5 days.
@Himanshu Singh..some airports do it in “a-day” that is one day at least a million travellers. :D. But I think that airport is supposed to cater for luxury travel exclusively.
The airport is being built basically to kickstart a new city from scratch near the Red sea. But yeah, constructing the airport first extravagantly, with a town in its budding state seems out of place, or maybe the town in itself is just for the uber riches only with their own private airport?
The Borg Cube actually makes a lot more sense than the linear City.
Especially when all visitors get assimilated into the collective…
Yeah, for the Borg.
Resistance is Futile
They are NOT on a "mega projects building spree". They are on a "futurist 3D render spree".
@Leyan Clasi Two words: Jeddah Tower
@@zemstafreda That certainly has worked out well, hasn't it?
What’s crazy is that the airport makes the most sense even though it’s outlandish
They could try making a new rain Forest?
Or they could just forget these dumb mega projects and build useful stuff like sustainable infrastructure and transit projects within their existing cities to cut down on car emissions
@@bababababababa6124
If your whole society just consists out of lazy rich petrol heads, reducing car emissions is probably not your first goal. Even though they probably wont have any say in that though.
But for real, those projects seems like the ideas of a 12 y.o. with infinite money. Whats the plan here? Tourism wont save their asses, when the world stop buying oil.
Id try to get into key technology, R&D the next energy source. They have infinite sunshine ... invest in energy storage ffs ... anything but "giant cubes and lines" ....
@@bababababababa6124 Exactly!!!
Invest in the future development of actual infrastructure in their populated cities and not on these dismal vanity projects! What a waste.
@@bababababababa6124 don’t worry about us worry about biden’s “build back better”
Yeah honestly this is probably the more sound idea... These project basically show that people getting rich through capitalism miss allocate capital to no end.
Lots of potential for lost places videos of giant abandoned building sites!
If they count urban exploring as tourism, I think they will definitely succeed.
What u mean?
@@jirehla-ab1671 urban explorers usually tour abandoned buildings lol
@@troyarrington5492 Exactly!
probably going to be the craziest urban exploring site ever! very dangerous.
Guerilla warfare
I'm looking forward to the new episodes of Abandoned engineering in 15 years🎉😜
This is gonna make some contractors, architecture firms, designers, and highly skilled workers really really rich. Being an engineer I wish I had a job in some NEOM project lolz.
How so?
The same things happened with Dubai during the late 90s and early 2000s. A lot of scams and plenty of money to be made.
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away"
- Percey Shelley
In 50 years these projects will be dystopian movie sets.
Lol who cares about movies. These projects won't even be finished.
@@AsiaMinor12 you have to see king abdullah econimc city
Can you do a series of videos on what an arcology is, their challenges, and technology needed and where they are likely built based on proposed arcology projects. They are really the buildings of science fiction yet we are so close to building such a structure.
I think the channel DamiLee might have a video about that.
Learned all about them in Sim City 2000…
Arcologies are a major feature in Peter f Hamilton's early books that he wrote in 1990s; the world population had to live in massive covered cities with shields cos of how badly we screwed up the environment..
Neom hasn’t uploaded a new video for quite a while now, has it?
Because it was a failed project from the beginning ☠️how ANYONE actually believed that it would ever be completed is astonishing
Neom is a cover story for a secret project
@@paulsun19 🕵
@@paulsun19 "They decided that the excavation has to be somewhere along .. that line ..." 🧐
The Cube looks very interesting. The Line looks completely insane. The ski resort will probably prove to be the most successful venture of them all.
everyone that actually went skiing before would know that an artificial ski resort is a stupid idea and will never come close to real ski resorts
@@hannesarved Many ski resorts even in Norway are Quite depedent on artificial snow these days. all u need is sub zero temperature and alot of water and power and snow makers. not eco friendly or cheap but absolutely possible. Pretty much all of the slopes and such in the 2022 Beijing winter olympics had artificial snow. should never had been hosted there because of human rights and pollution but they did achive it.
I'd argue that the thing in favour of the cube, is that it at least looks a little viable, in contrast to the other options.
@@Infernal_Elf Still there is nature in Europe. After the Olympic construction projects, more and more ruins remain. Solid losses for local budgets and a headache for support services. I don't mind at all if the project is successful. A lot of useful things will be developed and tested.
@@hannesarved You are a clueless troll
Concepts are one thing but finished projects are quite another. Ditto about slick marketing vs quality construction.
They should make a new Great Pyramid. Not just something that has a pyramid shape, but actually made from giant 10 ton blocks, and clad with polished limestone with a golden cap, which is what the existing pyramids would have had in their heyday.
They should make them upside down. NOW that would look impressive. After all, if we are going to make stupid projects that will surely fail, at least go for something fun.
Starting to think that a lot of these announcements and animations are more for Global PR than any kind of actual action plans.
They have started construction or groundworks on several of the projects. Very exspensive PR hiring loads of digging machines and trucks.
@@Infernal_Elf good. Their loss! The line is the dumbest project ever possibly conceived.
@@AsiaMinor12 The same was said about Burj khalifa too 🤔 I sold it to investors and today it's an icon
@@theancientsancients1769 Completely different scenarios. Burj Khalifa is one stupid building with no plumbing. Pretty sure the most iconic thing about it is the caravan of poop trucks every morning, and the smell. But still, one building, golf claps all around.
It's half a mile tall and the line is 500 miles long. You see the difference? The amount of materials required, I can't even wrap my head around, nevermind the time it's gonna take. Will MBS even be alive by the time it's done? Imagine all the other projects and innovative designs people are gonna make in the next century as this stupid pipe dream slowly comes together. Someone said in these comments that sometimes it's better to learn lessons from your own mistakes than just looking at what happened to others to avoid making the same mistakes. Well, the line is gonna be an expensive, life long lesson then. And if they forgo plumbing again, imagine the traffic jams cause of poop trucks. Or heck, if they do also do 500 miles of plumbing, just imagine someone clogging up the system, then it's down for everyone.
@@theancientsancients1769 if you can't figure out how unbelievably stupid this project is, you are endowed with mediocre education and less than average IQ, my friend.
it simply puts a line in the sand for engineering!? who comes up with these amazing "lines"??? so enjoyable!!!! yet another great one, thanx B1M!!
The perfect lunch break video!! Thank you for the upload time ❤
“Like Dubai” as if that’s something to aspire to be…
Honestly why not? Half the world & countless brits seem to be moving there for some reason. It's booming by most metrics. I don't like it, never have not my cup of tea but it's generally good for a world full of migration iwthn owehre for people to go. Full of American dream migrants & success stories. Good on em I say
I know it’s rank there.
It is compared to most of the other backwards nations in the region.
I wanna see at least 10% of all these "megaprojects" completed.
Stfu not ur bus
0:49 For some reason seeing the levitating trees in the NEOM footage just angers me somehow. I don't know why.
I think it's the rotating part. That would mess up the suspension cables, right? Or it just looks stupid, IDK.
These projects surely have no intention of actually being finished to their full potential lol
Ohhh Helll yea another video from you guys, lets goooooo :)
It's interesting how the aim is to be more like Dubai, but they don't seem to understand what it is that made Dubai so successful in the first place. Other than Emirates Airline, the core reasons are business-friendly regulations, safety, competent government, an open approach to immigration and cheap energy, not glitzy projects that have attracted so many to Dubai.
Wouldn't really call their government competent lol
These projects are for anyone but the people going to live or visit it. The projects are to massage the egos of the idiots planning them w
More competent than whatever is in america, though that's a really low bar lol@@naisyjohns
@@naisyjohnsit is though to us as the Emirati CITIZENS of the country!
Ofc not because you only know what you are told. Not surprising @@naisyjohns
It’s just for headlines, most of these won’t ever be built just like the Jeddah tower.
No matter how many mega projects they're gonna develop in the future, they would still be directed to the wealthy who comprise a tiny fraction of the population.
Amazing info thanks
Because I am human my first reaction was apprehension and slight repulsion because of how artificial everything appears to be in these mega-structures... while I don't necessarily want to live in any of these megastructures I do appreciate these megastructures on an architectural level and on a artistic level because just WOW look at all those ideas. Lastly, this video was well done B1M. You are continuously the definitive channel for construction. You all do such a marvelous job behind the scenes to produce such wonderful videos.
I'm in the same boat. They will need people to want to live there though, there will be an abundance of housing and if not filled with people buying second homes or people wanting to live as a community then it will fall into crime and disarray like similar projects.
Tapping left at the beginning of the video is a hidden gem
well the video could have really been a bit more critical about the projects :D
He knows who is going to pay him to promote these very disasters in the making. Doesn't want to alienate the very hand that's going to be feeding him soon.
The B1M has been much more skeptical about these projects in the various earlier videos dedicated to each of them. This video was simply an overview of the top 5.
I agree, I would’ve liked to see him rip into these projects more and roast them, but to be fair this video is just supposed to be an overview of the top mega projects in the country now. To be fair we have Adam Something for that too 😂
Agreed. Literally 30 seconds of him saying 'there are human rights issues and they need good PR' followed by 'anyway, here's the amazing list of projects.' Disappointing that he's giving them the good PR.
I'm thinking at least some of these will follow other unfinished projects in the Middle East. Thanks for the compilation!
Six Flags Qiddiya. Falcons Flight will definitely be the craziest coaster ever built
I predict half of these don’t get built and the ones that do are poor imitations of the fancy renders.
The airport is almost done, and if you look at the renders at 7:37 you already see that those cars riding there will never happen. Also, in one of these renders you see a woman without a hijab, which signals to me as those video renders are only for positive PR.
Optimist!
@@RiRiDingetjes Once the oil demand is down who the hell is going to use that airport? People that want to look at camels?
I feel like this is gonna be a "look on my works ye mighty and despair" moment
The week isn't the same without one of your videos ❤
Thank you so much!
Good morning Fred, The company I work for is the industry standard in the USA for Cross Laminated Timber building. It's an environmentally friendly and new type of building. Maybe make a video or even come and visit!! Cheers, Mate!
Impressive structures. But other than the airport and maybe the port. I cant see any of the other ever being completed.
Is it not immense hot, if you are skiing in the desert?
The quality of your videos are really good! ❤❤
I mean. They’re all professional renderings and videos by the projects themselves so not really his. Lol
Fundamentally, climate change is going to render large parts of the Persian Gulf unsuitable for human habitation for part of the year. Not just 'uncomfortably hot' but 'you will die if you're outside for any length of time'.
Once the oil wealth runs out, I really struggle to imagine how any economy can overcome the competitive disadvantage of that. I guess I can't really blame gulf governments for trying anyway, but still.
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by The B1M is truly a gift. 👏👏👏
loved the video
Construction is always exciting. I am looking forward to seeing which ones are developed in my lifetime or this decade! 😎
I will watch with my eyes poking out of my burka.
None
6:36 - That's one fully upgraded Civilization 6 tile on a desert map - but it doesn't change the fact that the adjacent tiles have no yield! Hopefully there's at least some fish resources, or maybe a natural wonder which offers science benefits. Because that's not looking like a good start! XD
The line should not happen, if it does it will be as empty as that “Paris in China” city
And mind you, that “Paris” is habitable, there is also a “Moscow” looking city there too, and empty.
I can only imagine the line might appeal eccentric millionaires, but there aren’t enough of them who would move there just because.
WHAT??
Tianducheng has normal density - 1000 people per square kilometer
for recently built city it's quite good result
especially when we are talking about touristic destination
With the "Paris in China" city, at least they weren't defying the rules of economics and urban planning. I bet not even a single module of the line would be successfully built, let alone look like the renders.
Tectonic plates: **shifts by 0.0001**
The line: **turns into dotted line** 😂
When I worked there 40 years ago the Riyadh Water Tower was the architectural highlight. #goodolddays
There have never been good old days in that theocratic hellhole
@@adventurefaps9571 don't knock it unless you have tried it. I did more sex, drugs and rock n roll in those four years than at any other time in my life. You need some Adventures in the real world rather than the Internet....
Interesting topic. I feel like there's more to this subject in many ways.
The projects are way too fragmented and all over different places. I think they should have just concentrated on on city and see how it turns out. Also the 'Cube' would've a better(slightly practical) idea to start city given the fact that its an Islam nation over the line instead.
A 400mx400m cube at a center of the city would be like the Burja Khalifa in Dubai giving you that extravagant and shock value reeling in tourist!
Or super size it to a 1000x1000x1000 meter cube!
I hope they manage to achieve it (and I hope I have a chance to experience it once it's completed).
MBS must have a really 'tiny problem'
hahaha, even Trump's certainly present 'problem' must be monstruous comparably...
Minuscule. Microscopic.
He lost all his masculinity after losing a war to the Houthis.
That was one hell of a smooth segue.
I'd sure love to live and see how the world has changed in 2100🤔
Me too
Same here. I bet we will see many fundamental changes this decade on how the world works. My educated guess is that AI, household robots, cheap abundant green energy, self driving vehicles and massively increased computing power (through quantum computing) and some massive breakthroughs in medical field will shape our lives. In the 2000s we got broadband internet and smartphones, in the 2010s we got social media, very powerful machine learning tools for businesses. 2020s already expanded the trend of "content creation as a job", and I believe we will still see very noticeable changes in our lifestyles this decade.
Mass slavery will return spilling out from the Middle East
@@eaaeeeeaIn europe nothing will change
I love how you pitch your voice finely between good manners and taking the piss. :-)
“A global magnet for tourism” so long as your wife covers her face and she’s happy not being allowed to drive or go out on her own.
And being okay with slavery etc
sponsor spots so smooth i didnt notice until it was half way done, damn fred.
They want to change their economy to tourism but I can't have a beer there?
As a woman I can’t do much of anything there.
@@marsgal42 yes you can 😂
Beer is all you think of ?
Indeed. I mean they mutilate babies genitalia- what do people expect 😅
@@zaidbenriane767 freedom is what we think of.
"My name is bin Salman, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nice video as always! As an Arabian I have little hope in the success of these projects, except maybe the more economical-related structures. That line is never gonna be what they promised and maybe will be left as a ruin I think... But if they succeed this will be a huge milestone in architecture.
"miletstone in architecture"... yeh the architecture that the western firms build...
@@-saklo-2256 what ru saying
@@-saklo-2256 who are'u?
Considering peak oil is already taking place, the best urban design will be human-scale, walkable neighbourhoods, rather than fossil-fuel dependent habitats.
😮 Outstanding as always.
It'll be like "Blade Runner" allright, only without the cinematics (and no rain to wash away the tears).
They don't know what to do with their money
Love you bro
Still won't build proper drainage system
"..it'll likely be the budget of a 400-metre skyscraper - squared." 😁👏
Most likely to happen:
1. Fancy Airport
2. The Cube
3. Floating City
4. The Line
5. Desert Ski Resort
What I would be most excited for:
1. The Line
2. The Cube
3. Floating City
4. Fancy Airport
5. Desert Ski Resort
Let me correct this comment…
Most likely to happen:
1. None
2. Of
3. These
4. Projects
5. Will ever be completed, or if they miraculously are they will never be successful.
What we are excited for:
1. N/A
2. None
3. N/A
4. None
5. N/A
@@bababababababa6124 you're no fun
What is the background music name?
They wasting money on vanity projects not practical economic decisions
as expected from Middle East countries... see Dubai for example
when is it building the hyperloop?
Very enjoyable as usual 👍
The way things are going in the world, I'm not holding my breath.
Announce, launch, start construction, fail, abandon, repeat. Why not do one project at a time?
the line actually holds some promise, because all they have to do is build a small section of it in order to prove the concept, and expand from there if needed.
And indeed that's what they're planning to do with The NEOM Line, build a section just over two kilometers long.
I won't lie, these are all dystopian as hell. Makes me want to move into a cabin somewhere in the forests of Canada. At any rate, to live in a place that has and appreciates character and history and an urban fabric that fits the land and has developed over time, and not all this weird, cyberpunk crap.
Your videos are always impressive!
7:59, bet it's gonna be nothing like JFK
More like Berlin Brandenburg
- Empty
Well if they only expect a million it will be empty
@@jantschierschky3461they’re also building it in the middle of nowhere for some reason
@@bababababababa6124 well they believe if you build it, nobody will come
love the subtle jokes throughout the video lol
While one or two of these projects *might* eventually turn a profit, I suspect the world will never see more expensive dumpster fires than most of these. It truly is mindboggling just how much money is being frivolously wasted on these giga-vanity projects.
Most of it will never be built and only announced
The Makaab is what happens when the Borg discover bling.
b1m has the best transition to its sponsor masterworks out of all the youtube channels out there. 😄
Will the mirrors on the Line reflect heat on to the sand outside creating an invisible line of boiling sand for miles, like a hot sand moat?
keeps the filthy peasants away
And fuck any wildlife in that general area.
When the first section of the line is complete... it will be known as 'The Dot', haha.
No project(s) to deal with climate change?
What climate change?
What’s next? Cloud City?
Very torn on much of this. Love the concepts and it makes me want to visit, but I have a huge problem with the Saudi government and MBS.
Don't come and we don't want you. We target our brothers in Asia and Russia. We don't want Europeans and Americans. Shut up. Don't interfere in our affairs and lecture us.
It sounds like you have islamophobia
Why did you delete your last video?
Those renders look ridiculous! 😆
Trying to turn that country into a tourist attraction is even more ridiculous.
@Stezika15 The one who guessed the direction of the future successfully emerges from the crisis. This is what free systems are for, where there are a lot of independent ideas, you never know what will turn out to be successful. One way or another, most ideas will fail, so that a small percentage will become a trend.
But they have authoritarianism, as far as I remember, and with a high probability it will fall along with oil.
Enemies of SA will see these as a huge target, much like NYs Twin Towers.
So, all non-Muslims who care about human rights then…
It's about time some new and exciting travel destination would emerge next to Dubai. They should finish the Jeddah Tower ASAP.
I hope these projects come into fruition and prosper as intended - otherwise, it would be a massive waste of time, money, and effort. I'm interested to see how things turn out. Who knows? The world could soon have another Dubai or Singapore to gawk over.