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‘Few other nations have dared to attempt this’

Architects and engineers tell AGBI about the positives and pitfalls of Saudi Arabia's push to build it all, 'all at once'

By Valentina Pasquali
A photo taken by drone shows a train leaving the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh last month – with more construction cranes in the background Reuters/Mohammed Benmansour
A photo taken by drone shows a train leaving the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station in Riyadh last month – with more construction cranes in the background

Riyadh’s sixth metro line opened this week – just one month after the first and a decade since construction started on the network. 

Cities are not traditionally built this way. They tend to evolve slowly, through the incremental addition of “a...

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