Construction Gone Wild

[Davidackerman]

Wacky construction, bad mistakes, so bad it's funny

 

[Davidackerman]

Crazy Chinese Mountain top condo

[video]http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2013/08/2013812138342165.html[/video]

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

A whole lot of people along the line forgot to add elevators to this troubled, and nearly completed 47-storey highrise in Alicante, Spain - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...d-skyscrapper-article-1.1422685#ixzz2bi6U7pa9

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

There are elevators on that project

http://devacacionesypuentes.com/2013/04/30/in-tempo-tocar-el-cielo-en-benidorm/

 

[DSC]

Crazy Chinese Mountain top condo

[video]http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2013/08/2013812138342165.html[/video]

Good (bad!) photos at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ock-Beijing-China-create-dream-penthouse.html

 

[TheTigerMaster]

The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. It's been under constructon for more than two decades.

And you thought Toronto's architecture was bad...

Looks slightly better with the glass on. There's a sinister vibe to it...

This "hotel of doom" still isn't completed inside.

And according to a defected North Korean engineer, it was impossible to put elevators in the structure. Yes, you have to walk up all 105 stories. Western tourists can now get a taste of what it's like to be Core Class of North Korean Songbun.

 

[fedplanner]

^An excellent evil villain lair for the next Bond movie.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

fedplanner:

The one with the taste for filmmaking is on his way to a glass coffin; his son prefers bootlegged Disney characters instead.

AoD

PS: Correction - he is already in one.

 

[Mississauga Slim]

In Shanghai they're buiding high-rises on no foundations, with only hollow concrete "support" tubes sunk into the dirt. This one simple toppled over in one piece: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/rotten-foundation-building-collapse-shanghai-18937.html

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

MS:

The shocking thing is that the building more or less stayed in one piece hitting the ground on the side...

AoD

 

[FAC33]

The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. It's been under constructon for more than two decades.

Looks slightly better with the glass on. There's a sinister vibe to it...

And according to a defected North Korean engineer, it was impossible to put elevators in the structure. Yes, you have to walk up all 105 stories. Western tourists can now get a taste of what it's like to be Core Class of North Korean Songbun.

Before they started working on it again a couple of years back, the official line on this building is that it didn't exist. It was regularly airbrushed out of photos of Pyongyang, even though it's absolutely massive and impossible to avoid noticing. Commentators over the years have regularly noted that there's something "off" about this building that gives it a sinister air.

There is also some question as to whether any of the hotel rooms will ever open.

Most recent update I've seen: http://travel.cnn.com/north-korea-ryugyong-hotel-kempinski-pyongrang-open-341481

 

[TheTigerMaster]

In Shanghai they're buiding high-rises on no foundations, with only hollow concrete "support" tubes sunk into the dirt. This one simple toppled over in one piece: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/rotten-foundation-building-collapse-shanghai-18937.html

I had a nightmare that this exact same thing happened to the CN Tower a few years back.

 

[NotKevinBacon]

I think that this one's a winner.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...shafts-finished-skyscrapper-article-1.1422685

 

[Edward Skira]

That is crazy.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

I think that this one's a winner.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...shafts-finished-skyscrapper-article-1.1422685

I posted that above, apparently it was debunked below my post (I don't read Spanish).