Architecture is an art of planning and building real estates. It touches many areas such as: mathematics, art, technology, craftsmanship, philosophy, and politics. Architectural monuments are witness of their time and tell us about the period from which they come from. We admire ingenuity of architects an ability of builders. They were and remained symbols of cities and time in which they were created.
Even today’s constructions breathe their style, impressiveness, and appearance. Great deal of money is invested to build even taller and luxurious buildings. Unfortunately all these constructions do not fulfill out expectations. Many of them do not perform their function for which they were built, and invested money is thrown away. Precisely about such failures this attachment is talking about.
10MILLENNIUM DOME, LONDON, ENGLAND
Millennium dome was opened for 1.25 billion dollars and derided as being hideous. Only drawing in half it´s expected visitors, it was closed within a year which in self cost 41 million dollars.
09LOTUS RIVERSIDE, SHANGHAI, CHINA
Excavation caused a river to flood the foundations, turning them to mud, one collapsed, barely missing the other towers.
08THE BURJ KHALIF, DUBAI
It is the tallest building in the world, made for 1.5 billion dollars. The financial crisis meant the building had to be renamed for the United Arab Emirates president who bailed Dubai out.
07JOHN HANCOCK TOWER, BOSTON, USA
Tower was built in 1976, this 60 floor building swayed scarily in winds. Its windows also fell out, smashing to the ground. All 10.000 had to be replaced for 5 million dollars.
06CHURCH OF ST. MARZ AND ALL SAINTS, CHESTERFIELD, ENGLAND
14th century church with a wickedly crooked spire, legend says it was the devil. Actually unseasoned wood was used in construction, which warped.
05CIRIGROUP CENTER, MANHATTAN, USA
Citigroup center was built on stilts, construction ignored safety to cut corners. Any storm could have knocked it down. Rather than own up, workers were hired at night to do secret repairs.
04AON CENTER CHICAGO, USA
The exterior was a beautiful marble that was weak and cracked. A huge slab detached, pulverizing the ground refacing with granite cost 80 million dollars.
03OLYMPIC STADIUMS, ATHENS, GREECE
11 billion dollars went to 2004 Olympic stadiums even table tennis and judo had their own. Now empty, they played a large part in Greece´s financial crisis.
02RYUGYONG HOTEL, PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
Started in 1987 this 1.038ft, with 3.000 room hotel has sucked up 2 percent of North Korea´s GDP. It stands as an unfinished monolith to the government´s inefficiency.
01VDARA HOTEL AND SPA, LAS VEGAS, USA
This hotel is a curved, mirrored glass building that unknowingly concentrated the sun´s rays like a giant magnifying glass. Beaming into the swimming pool, it burned guests.
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