All 10 regions that will make up Neom now revealed
The 10 regions that will make up the Neom mega project in the northwest of Saudi Arabia have now been announced, including an "upside-down skyscraper" and mirrored linear city The Line. Here we look at all 10.
Originally clouded in mystery, details of the planned Neom mega-development in northwest Saudi Arabia are now becoming clearer following a series of announcements over the past year.
Neom stated that the mega scheme, which will cover 26,500 square kilometres in northwestern Saudi Arabia, will contain 10 distinct developments that it terms regions. Aquellum, which was announced last week, is the 10th of these regions to be announced.
Of these regions, The Line ? a planned 170-kilometre-long city ? is by far the best-known, most ambitious and most controversial. Along with The Line, Neom is also planning to create an Octagon-shaped, floating port city, a ski resort and a series of tourist developments along the Gulf of Aqaba.
Read on for details of Neom's 10 regions:
Leyja by Shaun Killa, Mario Cucinella and Chris van Duijn
One of six hotel resorts planned to be built on the Gulf of Aqaba coast, Leyja will contain a trio of "luxury high-end boutique hotels" designed by Shaun Killa, Mario Cucinella and Chris van Duijn.
The hotels will be located within a valley with 400-metre-high walls, with the Adventure hotel, designed OMA partner Van Duijn, consisting of a series of stepped volumes that cling to the rockside.
Italian architect Cucinella will de...
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