Dezeen’s latest podcast digs into why architecture still pays women less, why the field keeps funneling men into the top jobs, and a few other industry headaches like the stalled Jeddah Tower.
Here’s the image from the latest Dezeen Weekly episode.
Jeddah Tower is such a perfect “it’s not the design” case. Big projects stall when the money and the power structure drift mid-stream—financing gets weird, approvals get slow-walked, or the client changes their mind and suddenly everyone’s building a very expensive pause screen.
I’ve seen smaller versions of this in web projects: the prototype is fine, the team is ready, and then one exec reshuffle later the thing just… stops existing. Architecture just does it at skyscraper scale, so the half-finished object sits there like a public receipt.
