The Guardian critic writes that the outlandish NEOM project structure resembled a “habitable supercomputer” and cites a recent Bloomberg report that names Marvel Comics designer Olivier Pron as one of its many non-architect digital designers before pinning the massive project’s “ominous.
The 2013 sci-fi movie
Snowpiercer reduces the Earth’s population to the passengers of a speeding train. The poor and hungry live in the rear cars, fighting for scraps, and have only gossip to suggest that anyone lives any differently. But it is revealed to the viewer that things get progressively more upscale in the cars ahead. At the front, influencer types sip champagne in fur coats. Every class echelon is segregated by train carriage, until the poor are exposed to the rich and chaos breaks loose. The trajectory of
Snowpiercer is one possibility for “the Line”, a mega-project announced on 11 January by Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.