Circular transit hub shown in images of "built-from-scratch" American desert city

[Celerity]

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/08/21/telosa-city-big-marc-lore-big-usa-city-images/





Renderings of the "built-from-scratch" city Telosa designed by BIG show details of specific buildings, such as a large, wooden "mobility hub" and a "sports village" hosted in an outstretched, silver building. Announced via X in 2021, Telosa is a conceptual city designed by BIG for an organisation run by businessperson Marc Lore, which claims it will be "built from scratch" in the American desert and feature elements such as autonomous vehicles that could transform from a train car into a helicopter.



Previous renderings of the project show the city stretched out in low-lying, undulating blocks in an undetermined desert location, although a map on BIG's website suggests Nevada. According to Telosa, the city is expected to host 5 million people by 2050, and will be "ready to move in 2030".



The most recent images of the city show a circular, open-air "mobility hub" made up of four levels of flat, wooden tiers, encircled by two chrome transportation rails. The city's vehicles, called Ground to Air, or G2A, are pictured hovering in the air above the hub, attached to an incoming and outgoing floating rail line, and on wheels in the centre of the building.



Other elements include the Lore Institute, a building made up of elevated, interconnected towers and a shared street marked by a stone pathway bordered by buildings draped in greenery. Roads create the "central spine" of the city at the Equitism Tower, a geometric, timber building with a lattice-like facade. The tower is described as a "beacon for the city" by BIG.

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[Maine-i-ac]

1. Great way to separate the "haves" from "have-nots".

Tell me this paradise city isn't gated with a security perimeter and a high cost to get in. High % White will be the goal.
Then you're shut out from the impoverished masses gleaning the garbage cans.

OR is this all designed as a utopian, all-inclusive society? yeah right ...

[The Madcap]

2. Dumbest idea I have seen in quite a while

Lots of expensive shiny objects. The upkeep alone would be astronomical. Why build something like this in the desert? It makes no sense.

[Luciferous]

3. Seems like a pretty dumb idea to

build it in the desert.

[AltairIV]

4. Question

And where is all the water supposed to come from?

[Dem2theMax]

5. Along with being utterly ridiculous,

A lot of the architecture reminds me of Disneyland's Tomorrowland, in the 1960s.

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. It's shiny and nice, but where is its water supply?

Millions of people by 2050? That's a stretch.