A billionaire investor wants to create a new 'sustainable' and 'equitable' city in the middle of the US desert 🇺🇸🏜️
150,000 acres; 5 million people; opening in 2030.
Here's what we know about the ambitious project 👇
timeout.com/news/a-huge-ne…
150,000 acres; 5 million people; opening in 2030.
Here's what we know about the ambitious project 👇
timeout.com/news/a-huge-ne…
No, it’s not a mirage in the desert haze. Nor is it Elon Musk’s latest plan to colonise Mars 🚀
These are the designs for the city of Telosa, the latest project from billionaire investor Marc Lore and celebrated architect Bjarke Ingels’s firm BIG 🌆
These are the designs for the city of Telosa, the latest project from billionaire investor Marc Lore and celebrated architect Bjarke Ingels’s firm BIG 🌆
Lore and Ingels’s ambitious plan would see an entire city built from scratch in the desert of the western USA 🤠
Within 40 years, the duo intend to establish a fully-contained city, which will be extended over 150,000 acres and have a population of five million 📈
Within 40 years, the duo intend to establish a fully-contained city, which will be extended over 150,000 acres and have a population of five million 📈
The blueprint designs are, depending on your taste, either dazzlingly utopian or unsettlingly dystopian 🤷
There’s plenty of innovative architecture on display, alongside futuristic visions of public transport and spaces filled with greenery and nature 🌱
There’s plenty of innovative architecture on display, alongside futuristic visions of public transport and spaces filled with greenery and nature 🌱
In the centre of Telosa, Ingels and Lore plan to build a high-rise named Equitism 🌇
The entire promo is filled with buzzwords like ‘sustainable’, ‘equitable’ and ‘human potential’ – leading us nicely to the backlash against Telosa, which is rather substantial 💥
The entire promo is filled with buzzwords like ‘sustainable’, ‘equitable’ and ‘human potential’ – leading us nicely to the backlash against Telosa, which is rather substantial 💥
Some commenters on the website of architecture and design magazine Dezeen dubbed the city a ‘vanity project’ and ‘like a greenwashed Vegas’, while others dismissed it as the plaything of another egotistical billionaire ♻️💰
Despite claims from Lore that Telosa could be ‘the most sustainable city in the world’, people were quick to question building another desert city when Las Vegas is already facing the dire consequences of severe water shortages 🌊
Telosa would be almost ten times its size ✖️
Telosa would be almost ten times its size ✖️
So will Telosa be a super-sustainable blueprint for the future of the human race, or will it be a mega-expensive, greenwashing flop? 🤑
If you decide you really love it, start packing your bags: apparently the first residents could move in by 2030 🏡
If you decide you really love it, start packing your bags: apparently the first residents could move in by 2030 🏡
What do you think Telosa will be? 🌳🌆
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