This week on Dezeen, we reported on the news that Saudi Arabia is scaling back the expected population it hopes The Line mega city will reach by 2030.

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2024-04-25 09:00:12

This week on Dezeen, we reported on the news that Saudi Arabia is scaling back the expected population it hopes The Line mega city will reach by 2030.

News agency Bloomberg reported that officials expect The Line, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia's Neom project, to house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030 compared to an original goal of 1.5 million.

The Italian jewellery company also revealed a serpent-informed watch designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando.

In architecture news, we covered an official report into the collapse of the 10-year-old Tretten bridge in Norway, which criticised the structure's design and construction.

In the UK, Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign released a set of visualisations depicting "boring alter-egos" of UK landmarks.

Made by creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio, the AI-created buildings, including Buckingham Palace (above), were designed to draw attention to the UK's "boring" architecture.