When Riyadh unveiled Beast Land in late 2025, it signaled something the entertainment industry had never seen before. An entire theme park rose inside Boulevard City, built around the world’s most watched YouTuber. For six intense weeks, this 188,000-square-meter zone turned Mr. Beast’s fast-paced digital world into a real environment filled with rides, challenges, and…
Across the world, nations continue to chase bold infrastructure dreams. Towering towers redefine skylines. Ocean tunnels link countries that once relied on ferries. Mega bridges span hostile waters once thought impractical to cross. I follow these projects closely, and every time I see a line of pylons rise from the sea or a tunnel breakthrough…
In 1878, the Swedish Finnish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld entered seas most sailors refused to cross. Ice locked his ship in place. Crews rationed food. Temperatures dropped to survival limits. They waited almost a year before completing the Northeast Passage. That journey proved the Arctic could serve as a corridor between continents, but it also…
Saudi Arabia is reshaping global architecture with projects that challenge accepted limits of scale and engineering. Across vast desert landscapes, new urban districts now rise where empty terrain once stretched uninterrupted. Designers have proposed a perfectly straight 170-kilometer city known as The Line. Developers have advanced work on Jeddah Tower, planned to exceed 1,000 meters…
Skyscrapers now tower higher than any structures built before them. Engineers challenge gravity every year as cities race upward to create the next signature landmark. These buildings no longer exist only as offices or homes. They act as economic signals, cultural monuments, and expressions of national confidence. I have studied these projects closely, and standing…
Deep inside the heart of Central Africa, the Congo River surges through one of the most powerful natural energy corridors on Earth. Standing on its banks near Inga Falls, I felt the raw strength of rushing water vibrating under my feet. That force now drives one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans ever imagined. The…
Goldin Finance 117 rises above Tianjin like a frozen promise. At 597 meters tall, this single tower stretches higher than the Petronas Towers, rises beyond the Shanghai World Financial Center, and ranks among the six tallest skyscrapers ever built. You can spot it from kilometers away, a pale concrete spine breaking the skyline without a…
Along a calm stretch of South Korea’s southern coastline, engineers, architects, and marine specialists are attempting something humanity has never completed at city scale before. They are building a community designed to float permanently on the open sea. When I first studied the scale of this effort, I realized this was not an architectural stunt…
A single structure rising two kilometers into the desert sky no longer reads like distant science fiction. Saudi Arabia has placed the idea into active architectural planning under the name Rise Tower. The concept instantly redefines skyscraper ambition. At twice the height of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and far beyond the still unfinished Jeddah Tower, Rise…
North Korea rarely appears in conversations about tropical escapes or luxury coastal destinations, yet the country’s eastern shoreline tells a very different story. Tall hotels rise over clear blue water, long boulevards frame the coastline, and wide beaches stretch farther than the eye can see. Water slides gleam under the sun, and volleyball courts sit…
Artificial intelligence now sits at the center of global competition, and the world’s most powerful nations are racing to build the infrastructure that will support it. OpenAI has taken the most aggressive step yet. The company is preparing to spend five hundred billion dollars on a network of supercomputing campuses larger than anything ever attempted…
Naypyidaw: The Empty Capital Built to Hide Power Imagine commuting to work on a train that feels like a rollercoaster. It dives deep underground through solid rock, emerges high above a river on a towering bridge, and even passes straight through the middle of a high-rise apartment building. For millions of people in Chongqing, China,…