It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable. Of all of contemporary architecture’s many sins, perhaps the most pernicious is its ...

Saudi Arabia has stopped construction on its most ambitious megaproject, The Line. Around $50 billion has already been spent. This video examines what went wrong, current progress, and what may happen ...

Ambitious plans for a 100-mile-long megacity in Saudi Arabia – a key part of the kingdom's $2 trillion redevelopment project – have been put on hold so they can be scaled back. Now, however, the ...

In late 2025, word began leaking that progress on The Line, a futuristic project planned for northwestern Saudi Arabia, had stalled. This came as little surprise to many who had followed the wildly ...

It was always doomed to unravel, but the firms who lent their name to this folly should be held accountable. A migrant worker at a Riyadh construction site.(Jaap Arriens / Getty) Of all of ...