Neom sounds crazy, but Saudi Arabia does not stop and they begin to build a cube that can fit 20 kingdom states

If the UAE wants to become the new capital of skyscrapers, Saudi Arabia wants to go one step further: the capital of megaprojects in general. The line, along which he already has to assemble cables, may be his most ambitious project, but his roadmap also includes the grand Riyadh airport, a skyscraper more than 1,000 meters high and another 2,000-meter building.

One of them is in the works and is hard to imagine: a 400 x 400 meter cube that would fit 20 buildings like the Empire State Building.

competitionThis is the name of the building in question and, although the images presented show a grandiose construction, the truth is that it is difficult to estimate the dimensions of this cubic skyscraper when completed. Muqaab will be 400 meters high, 400 meters wide and 400 meters long. The idea behind this strange shape is to take advantage of every centimeter inside.

The idea is that it is a kind of city in itself, with 400,000 square meters of shops, accommodation and entertainment, internal gardens and, at the center of everything, a spiral-shaped tower. A city inside a cube, in short, with its own internal transportation system and everything needed to be self-sufficient.

they’re already at itIt was more than a year ago that we learned about the plans to build the Cube (2023 was a busy year for mega-construction announcements), but the news is that Public Investment Fund, the company behind the construction of the Cube, has come forward with the complex. Lecture to discuss the development of. In a statement, PIF said they have already worked more than three million hours and the excavation process is 86% complete.

They confirm that the movement is great and in this time, ten million cubic meters of earth has moved. Every day in recent months, 250 excavators and more than 400 teams have been working on the ground, which can already be seen both on Google Maps and in the image shared by those responsible.

excessive ambitionBut the competition is just a part of something bigger. It will be the cornerstone of New Murabba, a project that seeks to transform a 19-square-kilometre area that will house more than 100,000 homes, 980,000 square meters of shops, 1.4 million square meters of offices, hotels, a university and 1.8 million square meters of urban development. meters of cultural and leisure places.

And they want to complete all this by 2030, coinciding with the development of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy, which also includes The Line and other Neom projects. At the moment, they have announced the construction of a bridge for the movement of goods which will allow them to start the construction of the foundation of Muqab in the coming months.

diversificationMuqaab and New Murabba in general are more than just a fad. At least that’s what they say, as one aim is to create 334,000 direct jobs to diversify the sources of the Saudi economy, which drinks heavily oil. Now we have to wait to check the progress of both this new city and, above all, The Line.

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In Xataka There is information that suggests that Neom is far from dead. 20% of the world’s steel is being consumed in this work.