Saudi Arabia is truly lacking on high-end construction plans. Among other things, they announced a completely new city center for more than 400 000 inhabitants for the capital Riad around two years ago,New Look
called.
After calmness to rest and had doubts because the ambitious project was illusory, something stimulates the planned jewel of the metropolis:
As a hundred meter high cubes, the Mukaab is said to dominate the skyline of the desert metropolis like a futuristic high-rise of superlatives.
We take you on a digital journey to a construction site where a high-tech real estate should be in the future that could easily appear in SciFi universes like Star Trek-the HoloDeck greets.
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The excavators are on the ditch
According to a press release from the project developersThe earthworks started behind the Mukaab. In mid -October 2024, around 90 percent of the 400 by 400 meter floor space are said to have been excavated.
For this purpose, around 10 million cubic meters on earth were moved by 250 excavators and almost 1,000 workers working on site every day.
Satellite images, such as on Google Earth, show the progress described. The rectangular shape can be clearly identified under the link above in the desert floor.
What is the Mukaab?
- The Mukaab serves as the core of the new city center of New Murabba.
- His edges should measure 400 meters each.
- Each of the five visible and 160,000 square meters (22 soccer fields) large facades shines with an elaborate decor. This is rooted in traditional Arabic architecture.
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In the end, the gigantic cube only serves as a shell for a tower that has been elegantly upstream. In this central building, residents and tourists are to find numerous offers such as shopping centers, restaurants and cinemas.
This serves his intended role as the center of the new district. As a total work of art, they want to meet luxury, high technology and opulence with all conceivable work, which Saudi Arabia expects from its capital.
A tower is planned for the corners of the cube, in which apartments and hotels are primarily housed. The inside of the cube forms a closed room,the 20 Empire State Buildings could grasp.
There is also a large park of more than a dozen hectares on the roof. For movement inside it will not only be important. A small -scale transport network made of vehicles is intended as a helper to cover the sometimes kilometers of routes.
But mega cubes, skyscrapers and tech utopia are not enough, there is more-an inner shell with which curd cheese as a bartender and entertainer from Star Treep Deep Space Nine would have his bright joy.
The world's first holodeck
Correctly on the cube edges, a dome is created that encloses the towers as a kind of artificial sky and horizon (360 meters high and 380 meters in diameter).
Because inside the Mukaab, other creations to virtual life should awaken every day via hologram technique.
The inside of the construction projects according to the concept of fantasy worlds. Technology creates the impression that the real buildings are really in foreign landscapes. Meanwhile, dynamically roaming animals, figures or driving/airplanes mix three-dimensional among people.
The environments presented in the advertising video range from underwater cities to avatar-like, floating rock landscapes, the Mars, exotic alien planets to futuristic racing courses.
When the project saw the light of the public for the first time,. If you want to learn more details about the Mukaab, look there.
Saudi Arabia, however, has other construction projects and curiosities in the float away from the Mukaab and The Line.that should save lives or their luxury hotel,.
When will Mukaab be finished?
At the beginning of 2025, 2030 will continue to be mentioned as a year for the completion of the first phase (viaMiddleeasteye,cited Bloomberg). Then the world exhibition will take place in Saudi Arabia.
According to Michael Dyke, the first phase of New Murabba should be completed. This also includes about 10 percent of the apartments - however, it remains open whether it also means some in the Mukaab.
However, he indicates that he will stand on the roof of the cube. This may indicate a construction of the 400 × 400 × 400 external construction and the roof before the inner buildings and the dome for the holographic installations are tackled.
The next date on which riad visits millions of people or can be seen on their screens is 2034. This year, world football is guesting for the World Cup in the desert state.
By then at the latest, the pressure will be large to have large parts of the new city center of the metropolis ready for reference and operational- ideally, of course, including the mukaab and its holotechnology.
