Why Europe is Building a $34BN Transport Mega-Hub
Infrastructure 30 Apr 2025
Tajikistan is finally finishing a Soviet-era megaproject: Rogun Dam. This dam is 335 metres high, making it taller than a supertall skyscraper.
But the project has not been without controversy, taking decades to construct and causing tensions with downstream countries.
King Salman Gate will rise next to AlMasjid AlHaram, Mecca's Sacred Mosque, and create some 900,000 praying spaces.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the $374M structure was first unveiled in 2006, but has been plagued by budget overruns and delays.
On 30 September, we brought construction's leading voices on mental health together at the Gherkin in London.