The Top 10 Most Disastrous Building Projects In The World EVER

摘要

Budgets spiralling to the size of a small country's GDP. Vast body counts. Overruns that go on for centuries ... Yes, in the style of a Channel 4 filler show, and on the back of the nightmare that is the National Physical Laboratory, it's the worst projects ever. As the team that worked on the National Physical Laboratory knows, every construction project has the ability to turn round and eat its creators. The cost of supplies, weather delays or even the occasional contract dispute can bring disaster. But few, it is fair to say, can claim to have spent 122 years on site. Or to have sent their architect to an insane asylum. Or, for that matter, to have led to the deaths from fever of thousands of workers. Clearly, some projects belong in a class of their own. Building decided to trawl through construction's annals to come up with the schemes that everyone involved regretted ever signing up to. Were they contemptible folly or triumph in the face of adversity? You decide. (Actually, we've decided and organised them into a top 10 for you ... but feel free to disagree.)