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Neom releases renders of Zaha Hadid Architects' crystalline skyscraper

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Neom have released images of the skyscraper, named Discovery Tower, which was initially revealed on the development's stand at the Cityscape conference in Riyadh last month. The development will also contain buildings designed by Dutch practices UNStudio and Mecanoo , US studio Aedas and Australian studio Bureau Proberts.

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Saudi Arabia’s The Line Megadevelopment Gets A Lot Shorter

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Last month, The Guardian and Bloomberg CityLab reported a massive scaling back of the development’s footprint: By 2030, a completed segment of The Line is now predicted to house just 300,000 people and be less than 1.5 miles long. The Line, however long it will be at the 2030 goalpost, is currently under construction.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

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Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a skyscraper for Trojena It will stand on a mountain opposite the main ski area, overlooking an artificial lake that will form the centrepiece of the leisure development. It will be connected to the lakeside development by a cable car.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designing sinuous lookout at Neom ski resort

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Announced in 2022, the developers of the project intend for it to be fully complete before the region hosts the Asian Winter Games in 2029. It will contain a building topped by ski slopes along with numerous hotels and other attractions that will be designed by studios including UNStudio , Aedas , Mecanoo and Bureau Proberts.

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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate "continuous wave of water"

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Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for an arts centre on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China , which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water. It will be located on a waterfront site The undulating roofscape will be crafted of white ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) – a type of plastic with a translucent finish.

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Neom touted as host for 2034 World Cup

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Saudi Arabia has begun planning a bid to host the football World Cup in 2034, with the Neom mega-development in the northeast of the country proposed as one of the venues. According to The Times, the mountainous resort and other higher-altitude locations in the country would form part of Saudi Arabia's plans to host a summer tournament.

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Skyscrapers planned for Indigenous land "look like the future of Vancouver"

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Revery Architecture has designed the Sen̓áḵw residential skyscrapers for the Squamish Nation's land in Vancouver , which will aid economic development and "benefit all Canadians", according to the Indigenous group. The new development at Sen̓áḵw demonstrates that reconciliation is not zero-sum," said Nch'ḵay̓ Development Corporation. "It