Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has grand plans for a luxury travel destination set to be 33 times the size of New York City when completed. Sindalah Island – opening in 2024 – could be more extensive than Disneyland, while the octagon-shaped city OXAGON could be the world’s largest floating structure.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s mega-project NEOM has already established unprecedented records of inventiveness, architecture and luxury living. Skyscrapers the Mirror Line could cost US$1 trillion to build, the Wall Street Journal reported last year, while other outlets estimated the entire city may set developers back a cool US$500 billion. Converting a abstracted mega opus into a tangible reality in the Tabuk Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia is this great giga-project.

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