NEOM - The Line
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Peter Cook and Adjaye Associates are among the UK architects working on plans for a 170km-long ‘mega-city’ under construction in Saudi Arabia, part of the NEOM development, the AJ understands.

Sections of ‘The LINE Exhibition’ seen by the AJ name 10 other global architects working on plans for The Line. They are: Morphosis, OMA, Peri Cobb Freed & Partners, Studio Fuksas, Tom Wiscombe Architecture, UNStudio, Coop Himmelb(l)au, HOK, Oyler Wu Collaborative, and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.

Source: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/peter-cook-and-david-adjaye-working-on-saudi-neom-project-the-line

US consultancy firm Parsons has been assigned as a major delivery partner for the Line.

Parsons’ framework agreement for consultancy services on The Line includes project and construction management services for the design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning of the project.

The consulting firm will also manage the project’s critical interfaces with adjacent NEOM projects and logistics.

Construction on The Line at NEOM began in the first quarter of 2021. Its delivery team is expected to reach 6,000 staff at peak between 2025 and 2026.

“The Line is a civilisational revolution inspired by the dream of sustainable urban living in harmony with nature,” said Pierre Santoni, president for the Middle East and Africa at Parsons.

“Closely aligned to Parsons’ own mission of delivering a safer, cleaner, and more connected world, we are proud that as The Line’s delivery partner, our work will not just reshape the region, but will reimagine the future of sustainable urban living around the world.”

Source: https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-tenders/parsons-the-line-at-neom

An interesting look at the overall project and how it is being viewed in the US.

An exhibition showcasing a smart city being built as part of the NEOM project in northwestern Saudi Arabia has gone on display in Riyadh.
The Line development will be constructed using revolutionary architectural designs and urban planning concepts and the exhibition will run until April 29 at the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for Contemporary Art in Riyadh’s Jax district.

Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2232971/saudi-arabia

Source: https://vid.alarabiya.net/videos/2023/01/17/96ujj3jubb_20230117_web_web-h264-mp4-encoding/video.mp4

A Bauer Group subsidiary has been commissioned with two further construction phases for foundation work on a linear city that forms part of the Neom megacity development in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Bauer Foundation Contractors, a subsidiary of Bauer Spezialtiefbau, was appointed to work on the first part of the foundation engineering project on the Line in August last year.
Bauer has now been commissioned with two further construction phases for the foundation work on the Line, in which large bored piles with a diameter of up to 2.5m and a depth of around 70m will also be produced. Bauer has said that the construction progress is right on schedule, which means that the first order can be completed on time.

Source: https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/bauer-to-work-on-further-sections-of-saudi-megacity-05-01-2023/

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While construction began on the project in October, new satellite images have revealed how much ground the project has covered, the scale of the city’s length, and the layout of its construction site.
MIT’s Technology Review reviewed satellite images of The Line’s construction site from an Australian company called Soar, with a photo of the main base camp having been taken by a satellite from Chang Guang Satellite Technology Corporation on October 22, 2022. This main base camp is located at 28.10 degrees latitude and 35.30 degrees longitude on the eastern side of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, but Soar user Urban uploaded several images of construction occurring all along the length of the Line.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/now/satellite-image-shows-saudi-arabias-205400368.html?guccounter=1