What Drives Architects to Design Saudi Megaprojects? w/ Kate Wagner
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The Rise of the Giant Cube in Saudi Arabia
The Mukhab is a massive cube the size of 20 Empire state buildings filled with hospitality, leisure and retail. It's part of New Maraba, a downtown revitalization plan for Riyadh that will include the giant cube. This particular project has its roots in late modern communism but also post-modernism. But it still says all paper architecture about how we live in society, he writes.
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