The Biggest Construction Mistakes in the World

From a construction mistake that gave rise to one of the most iconic landmarks in the entire world, to a tragic building collapse in China, here are 5 construction projects that didn’t go as planned.
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0:00 The Biggest Construction Mistakes in the World
0:20 Number 5: Lotus Riverside Complex
3:07 Number 4: Intempo Skyscraper
5:45 Number 3: AquaDom
7:31 Number 2: Tower of Pisa
9:42 Number 1: Sampoong Department Store
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[@MegaBuildsYT]

Do you know similar construction mistakes in your country?🤔👇

[@jonathanblox]

🤑🤑🤑

[@krisgonynor689]

The old Tacoma Narrows bridge in Washington state? Or that Great Lakes cruise ship that rolled over while still docked - killing 100's of people, all because they were all on one side of the ship?

[@wanttj]

The collapse of Highland Tower apartment building in Malaysia in early 90s

[@wc4109]

Champlain Towers, near Miami Florida, collapsed in 2021 killed almost 100 people.

[@taranggupta7256]

The construction of your house jk

[@jimmygrant3151]

We constructed a sandcastle on the beach. Unfortunatly, we built it too close to the shoreline, and surge of waves came in during high tide and washed it all away...two whole hours of work gone in a few moments. Fortunately no one was injured except the pride of my daughter whom to this day is still struggling with the drama that unfolded that day at the beach.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Good job you didn't build a nuke plant on the beach too ...

[@audionmusic2787]

Thank God for our first responders. Pamela Anderson and the Hoff.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Non-union work again...

[@pucmahone3893]

So tragic! Yet another disaster caused by climes change! LOL

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

Thoughts and prayers 😅

[@alexshabotenko7228]

You forgot to mention that the Tower of Pisa is not only tilted, it's also slightly curved, because architects tried to compensate the tilt by making one side of the upper floors taller.

[@pawelf1]

Also he didn't say that they stabilize the tower in 2001 and it's open to public again

[@ilanamillion8942]

The Tower of Pisa is truly a beautiful monument when you see it in person.

[@Will-dn9dq]

And the huge lead weights added to top of one side to try get it stable

[@robertyoung2819]

​@ilanamillion8942 Yes... When I was a child... My father was stationed in Germany... We traveled too many places... One was the "Leaning Tower of Pisa"... We walked up to the top of it... Doing the Tourist bit... It was a big spiral staircase for sure... Round and round...

[@AnyoneCanSee]

What is worse? A: Buying off plan in a building that falls over weeks before you are meant to move in? B: Moving into one of the other blocks and seeing the remains of an entire IDENTICAL block sitting on its side outside your bedroom window?

[@inisipisTV]

Well at least the standing building can be forced to put new braces and repairs to make it safe.

[@nickbrutanna9973]

@@inisipisTV ...That's the **hope**, anyway. 😛

[@willi-fg2dh]

yes.

[@alukuhito]

I wouldn't move into one of the other buildings even if I had paid already. The company would have to refund me. They can't expect anyone to want to live in any of the other buildings.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Maybe the top floor, where you can ride it out.

[@musty5551]

500 people died and dude gets 10 years?

[@bokhans]

South korea is extremely corrupt!

[@bryanm498]

He was rich and rich people are above law. Did you miss the briefing?

[@Quisqueyax]

Exactly.

[@tariklyacoubi8197]

Im too lazy to check but im sure he didnt even do the 10 years, rich people usually appeal and get home imprisonment

[@jonathanlandau-litewski7405]

​@@tariklyacoubi8197and even that isn't properly enforced. Us peasants will never know what it feels like to be part of the 1%, I can't even imagine what it must be like to have that much wealth.

[@SuperBenkoo]

The Swedish warship "Wasa" was ready built in 1628 set sail the 28th of august that year and sank 10 minutes later...we have a whole museum about it. It's very famous. Well worth a look.

[@iconicshrubbery]

So did Henry VIII's' the Mary Rose' warship, salvaged and preserved in a museum.

[@takeboo888]

It's a Vasamuseet.

[@orchidorio]

YEAH! My kind of thing!!! Thanks

[@alukuhito]

This is about buildings though, not ships.

[@robbannstrom]

@@alukuhito ...and yet ship designers are called naval architects...

[@eduardoromerovaquero3191]

The only problem with the Intempo Building seems to be financial issues, nothing compared to the collapsing or possible collapse of the other examples...

[@alukuhito]

The other problem is the people around there have to live with a giant M. What does it even stand for?

[@norabatungbacal6636]

@@alukuhito M stands for Mistake.

[@cafebean]

@alukuhito time to build the other letters in "Benidorm" id guess

[@alukuhito]

@@norabatungbacal6636I see.

[@theNimboo]

Ya I don't get why that one was included in the list, had nothing to do with the theme. Lots of buildings have started and stopped construction due to financial difficulties.

[@Saturnthroughstars]

I would say that all the fish dying is more tragic than the hotel's floor getting destroyed.

[@marilynhands1859]

Yes. Sigh. 😐🙏

[@savethebottle]

I was thinking the same thing. What a loss of living creatures that were left to die. Was that something that anyone even thought of or considered?

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Horrible

[@barbaraperry5023]

THANK YOU.❤💔

[@42k78]

I was shocked that the narrator kept talking about carpet being ruined and the hotel lobby getting destroyed. Weren't there like 1500 fish in that tank?

[@2-old-Forthischet]

I saw a shopping complex built in a Chinese community in Los Angeles. It was a huge corner complex at a major intersection. Working as a telecom tech back then, I saw all the faults of the structure. Sub basement walls were never waterproofed, resulting in year round wet walls and floors in the lower parking lot. The first level floor didn't have the proper concrete reinforcement so it sank when tenants started moving in with their equipment. Then I found out that this was the first concrete building this architect had ever designed in his career and yet it still passed the local city inspections. Someone's pocket got lined.

[@TheOtherBill]

That's reminiscent of the Surfside collapse in Florida.

[@61zulu77]

Chinese is famous for Tou-Fu dreg constructions!

[@yao5921]

@@61zulu77 racist spotted. Just so you know, this complex is built Los Angeles.

[@toomanymarys7355]

Architecture with Chinese characteristics. 😅

[@toomanymarys7355]

​@@yao5921In Chinatown.

[@NewLegacy93]

It's not necessarily a big mistake, but my parents lived in an apartment building up in Halifax Canada that had an empty pool on the roof. The engineers had accounted for the weight of everything needed for the pool except the water so it had to stay empty.

[@largol33t1]

It's a relief that they caught the mistake just in time. That's scary. Did you know that a reason most cruise lines have a very shallow pool is simply because of the weight? Only recently did technology improve to where they could install two pools on cruise ships. I believe Virgin was one of the first to have two pools on its ships.

[@hudsonhousejournal7063]

Soooo it became maybe a skate park for kids. 😁

[@jackgunn1480]

I would consider that a big mistake.

[@bsherder]

@@hudsonhousejournal7063 That's both hilarious and scary at the same time. I bet kids would try to use it like that anyway even with the possibility of going over. Probably dare each other.

[@supertuber120]

How do you not account for the water when it's a pool? I mean you build something for a certain use yet forget to keep that use in mind while you're building it.

[@mikegross6107]

You need to cover the Millennium Tower in San Francisco! It has tilted TWO FEET since its opening in 2009! The skyscraper is 645 feet tall and nothing so far has stopped its tilting!

[@ddegn]

Two feet of tilt on a 645 foot building is about 0.18 degrees of tilt. It's not great but the problem is overblown in the press. The building has a long way to go to get close to Pisa's 4 degree tilt.

[@FutureSystem738]

@@ddegnPerhaps you’d like to live there? After all, you said only 0.18 degrees. You do realise it’s getting worse, and the speed of leaning is likely increasing despite attempts at fixing it.

[@BagoPorkRinds]

@@ddegn Its not overblown when sewage lines can't properly drain from the mid to upper floors snd end backing up into residential units. And the measures to keep the tower from tilting further have shown to be inadequate and made the problem worse. Try again.

[@diegoferreiro9478]

@@BagoPorkRinds if the building has sewage lines that do not drain be sure that the construction has more issues than the 0.18 degree tilt.

[@BagoPorkRinds]

@@diegoferreiro9478 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGSvm4yMpNmln68

[@Querelle2008]

The least surprising was the Aquadom. People always underestimate water.

[@johndododoe1411]

They overestimated the strength of the plexiglass . They may also have underestimated the chance that a second oil/gas crisis would reduce heating in the surrounding atrium (this was the first winter after gas imports became problematic). A few details: 1. The acrylic construction details were kept secret by the specialist supplier . 2. Although surrounded by a hotel, the tank and elevated were both part of a general "fish zoo" next door, with a special route for paying zoo guests to visit the 1000 to tropical tank . 3. Fish zookeepers rushed in to save as many fish as possible .

[@Malik-Ibi]

Also not surprising... China

[@dasgibmekker768]

And of course it was built by a US company, as German contractors politely declined due to the high risk... 🙈

[@abcde_fz]

Sometimes, you don't expect much from YT, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many different angles we were shown the famous tower in Pisa. First time I've ever seen a bit of the surrounding town. Nice touch, whoever chose the clips and photos. Did not know the area around the tower was mostly open. Not lost in a city, almost a rural setting.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Nobody wants to be there if/when it does fall down

[@carringtonpageiv6210]

right!

[@koantao8321]

@@KaitouKaiju It's probably one of the most monitored buildings in the world. It's unlikely now.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Besides the tower there's a Domino's built of period stone on the site pizza was first created. Almost identical, locals claim.

[@tpn3561]

Pisa is a small town of less than 100k inhabitants. If you ever visit I suggest to save your legs and instead of climbing the tower have a visit to the adjacent cathedral, baptistery and camposanto (monumental graveyard), much more interesting in my opinion. Also worth a visit to the neighboring town of Lucca. And if you want to relax, it's very close to nice beaches on one side and hills on the other.

[@arrowghost]

According to Seconds from Disaster documentary, Sampoong's cracks isn't just from construction failure, but also accelerated it via the air conditioners, instead of using cranes to move them, the management orders a cheapter roller system to easily move it on the roof, right on top one of the straining column, 5E. It also comes from the vibration of turning on also contributes to the failure until collapse.

[@Teverell]

They also included a traditional Korean restaurant on the top floor, which required a much thicker and heavier floor (because it needed to be heated because traditionally they sit on the floor to eat), which added even more weight.

[@cocoedelie5054]

The day it collapsed they thought if they turned the ac units off everything would be okay. So it was filled with thousands of people and it was very hot and humid. I believe when they looked they saw that a column had punctured the rooftop

[@gtlfb]

The Pisa tower started tilting very soon after construction started. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t start over and instead continued building a tower they knew would never stand straight.

[@sharongagnist6428]

I have also wondered why they didn't just start over or at least dig a little deeper and add support.

[@robertfarrow5853]

Hubris. They tried to correct it and sent it the other way!

[@noelpucarua2843]

It is kind of like Brexit.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

But it is still standing

[@inisipisTV]

@@arribaficationwineho32- Thanks, Sherlock. Got the fact from Captain Obvious.

[@JohnSmith-fl6qd]

China is known for its amazingly fast construction process. That falls apart amazingly fast also

[@papkenro]

It’s called Tofu Dregs construction as the buildings are constructed with very poor materials without good foundations and pillars also they don’t use cement but mud and bamboo materials instead of iron rods and cement very dangerous to buy any properties in China now

[@ozrob8726]

China is known for a _lot_ of shoddy things. "Made in China" is not necessarily a badge of honour.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

At the same time z India crossed their population Though yes they built a hospital in record time during the pandemic

[@samongandroid]

Name one famous tower that has fallen.

[@sirapos6550]

10 years of imprisonment for the loss of 502 innocent people's souls,is not a strict penalty.

[@Allangulon]

The government is more corrupt than the contractor!

[@foxymetroid]

At least he got prison at all. In certain other first world countries, the most he would have gotten was a fine and bad publicity.

[@myusernamegotstollen]

As someone from Alicante, I remember hearing rumors that the Intempo, or the M building, as we call it, was actually abandoned because the construction company presold many flats already and decided to run away with the money

[@LoLoLifeinFlorida]

😮

[@travisfinucane]

He didn't mention a single construction mistake in that segment, other than than the lift mishap that injured the workers. I think it was only included in the video because the building is so interesting to look at.

[@frenchyroastify]

@@travisfinucane It looks like a pair of pants to me.

[@KenFullman]

@@travisfinucane This is what I came to say. I have since done some more research and still, the only construction mistake I can find is that, they failed to make adequate provision for emergency services access during construction. So when that service elevator lift accident happened, there was a several hour delay getting medical staff to the relevant part of the site. Still doesn't seem sufficient grounds to include it in this video. I'm glad they did though, it looks like a pretty iconic building and I'd never heard of it before.

[@neiljmacpherson445]

They are advertising flats to rent to tourists in the benidorm building

[@ianmorris6000]

I got two for you: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed 4 months after it was finished and the San Francis dam that collapsed 12 hrs after Mulholland inspected it and 450 people were killed.

[@MrEab2010]

Galloping Gertie..

[@grondhero]

The Intempo Skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain (a city I've actually visited) and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy hardly seem to warrant even in the top 100 of "construction mistakes." Intempo was a financial management issue and the Tower of Pisa was more engineering. While it may not be a 'perfect' building, it is a success.

[@justthink8952]

The intempo skyscrapper must be a building of a freemason. The shape is M.

[@kc10man]

I moved to Sichuan shortly after the earthquake in 2008. There was a building near me that was severely damaged. The concrete was extremely thin that supported the structure and there were cracks everywhere. I thought for sure it would be torn down, but instead after about a year of sitting silent and probably a lot of bribes they covered it with glass and said it was finished. No way it will survive even a small quake. Feel sorry for those who live there. Love Sichuan and the people but the graft is ridiculous.

[@tytn9978]

I do not know a lot about some of the other construction mishaps, but I would point out that at least the Town of Pisa has made a fortune from its "building" misfortune! Would it be a tourist destination without that leaning tower???

[@arribaficationwineho32]

But it is still standing

[@inisipisTV]

Well the original builder and original owner didn’t think so and only earned ridicule from it when it was first constructed, and was in constant distress on how keep it from leaning more and collapsing.

[@kellydalstok8900]

My hometown also has a leaning tower and for the same reason; soggy clay bottom. Since they tried to correct while building, it’s also bent. When climbing the tower, you can experience what it feels like to be drunk without actually drinking any alcohol.

[@dukecity7688]

Yes, there's other things to see and do.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

@@kellydalstok8900 ...since they don't make Quaaludes anymore.

[@kenhallermd8897]

If you haven't covered it elsewhere, I'd like to see a discussion of the collapse of the skywalks in the Kansas City Hyatt in 1981 included in a video. I had gone to school in Omaha in the years before that and was a frequent visitor to Kansas City so this had a personal resonance for me.

[@suzielynne9421]

I've only known about that case because it was featured by Fascinating Horror. It's a very interesting channel as it dives in to the bad engineering and kickbacks etc.

[@briant7265]

The original design had long rods suspended from the ceiling. The upper deck was to rest on (large) nuts partway down, and the lower deck on nuts at the bottom. This would have required most of the length of the rods to be threaded, and the construction company didn't want to deal with it. So the design was changed. The upper deck was on a short rod, and the lower deck was *suspended from the upper deck* by another rod. The joint that was supposed to hold the upper deck was then holding the full weight of both walkways. The original design was substandard. The new design could barely hold the empty walkways. Add a bunch of people, the joints holding the upper walkway let go, and both levels pancaked into the lobby.

[@EndlessSurprisesSD]

This started my interest in architecture. Then I got more interested in Victorian houses. I'll never forget when I first heard about the skywalk disaster, and they talked about the rods. Even though I had recently graduated high school without physics courses, I realized that would never work. It blows my mind that they were "too lazy" to thread a single rod.

[@Teverell]

I was coming down to the comments to see whether anyone had suggested the Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse.

[@mikeg3439]

My wife used to work with a lot of Chinese businessmen. They won't go on the record about it, but the stories they told us about how/why they would have failed/bad construction were fascinating. It has a lot to do with their culture being expert on finding scapegoats and that being an acceptable culture with them, combined with one thing: executives above you in their culture, expect only one thing from you when they call: assurance that everything is going great. If you do not make those mouth sounds to them, they find someone who will always make those mouth sounds to them. They don't care about reality. They only care about the reports.

[@DieFlabbergast]

I've heard this sort of comment on modern Chinese culture many times. What I would like to know is: how far back does this go? Did this sort of attitude/custom develop under Communist rule, or does it go back to pre-revolutionary China, maybe to the 19th century or earlier?

[@davidbarth80]

Same in Russia? India as well potentially

[@countryjoe3551]

That explains why so many projects and activities in China are built entirely upon fraudulent acts. I still can't get over all the ghost cities and green painted concrete chunks on top of pieces of rebar to fake growing plants.

[@powertrip6426]

Similar to America. Remember the Surfside apartments that collapsed in Florida not too long ago and several people were killed? Very sad and avoidable but to maintain buildings it costs money, and the American system values profits over people.

[@mikeg3439]

@@powertrip6426 Taking something that almost never happens, then saying it is similar to something that happens sadly way too often somewhere else, is not what I would call a fair comparison. There is a reason tens of millions of people in China desperately want to immigrate to the USA, and no one other than people with very specific job opportunities (which are drying up) wants to move to China.

[@viewfromthehighchair9391]

10 years for causing the deaths of over 500 people? What a complete miscarriage of justice!! The perpetrators should have received the death penalty or life in prison without parole with hard labour. This is pathetic!!

[@Allangulon]

Public execution for him and his entire family. Only by making the consequences of such corruption completely intolerable will these tragic events be averted!

[@RamsesTheFourth]

I agree.

[@mattbosley3531]

So how was Intempo a construction mistake? Bad management, certainly, but I didn't hear you mention any mistakes.

[@jbernabeus]

The lack of elevators was fake news, I don't understand why the video creators call it "construction mistake". A mistake it is, but theirs.

[@davidschutz693]

Also it looks stunning

[@freespiritable]

Spain is Earthquake prone area, i seriously want to see that during a shake. Edit, that's located in the most seismuc zone in Spain. 😬

[@pawelzielinski1398]

@@freespiritable I can assure you that you can build skyscrapers in seismic zones. Take a look at Tokyo.

[@molliwilson5639]

That aquarium story is very sad

[@guyelluzzi2705]

Millenium Tower in San Francisco, a 645 foot 58 story luxury high rise residential building with a worsening sinking and tilting problem that no one can seem to figure out how to correct.

[@randyfitz8310]

There is a huge project underway to remedy the tilt, it involves additional pilings outside the foundation and even hydraulic pumps to actively stabilize the building. What a problem!

[@theodoreteo1408]

Go ask Trump. He has a solution for everything. Some good, some bad, some outright ridiculous even stupid.

[@robinkelly1770]

In Malasia in the 1980's an apartment building collapsed. Airconditioning recently installed was initially blamed but investigation revealed than,an engineer made a mathematical error to the power of ten (misplaced a zero) so the centre masswas never rated for this... In Adelaide in around 2010 a large restaurant collapsed. Recently installed airconditioning was responsible in this case, but not because of extra weight. The installers couldn't run the ducting so cut through two main support struts. Six weeks later the inevitable happened.

[@sandybruce9092]

China known for its, fast, efficient, record-breaking construction - exactly what is wrong with their building!!!

[@norbertdx]

I recall seeing a video on the Mall, saying it was due to the extra weight on the roof when they installed larger air units on the roof and there was no underlying support.

[@krisstopher8259]

yea. i think i saw it like 10-15 yrs ago on discovery or natgeo channel

[@longluo8267]

This was caused by a dozen deadly causes. Every reason can cause collapse😦

[@inisipisTV]

The original building was only for 4 storey, but the owner added a 5th. It’s already at it’s limit by then. When they added the new heavy machinery and cooling system, breaks started to appear. The owner called up Engineers to inspect and find a way to fix it. The Owner should have closed the building already and remove all stuff inside. The halting of machinery with their vibrations and the reduction of weight from people would have saved the building, since they’re in the process of putting more reinforcements and repairs. It’s really negligible murder.

[@foxymetroid]

A big reason was the construction method that left little room for error. If they had stuck with the original plans, the building would most likely still be standing. Unfortunately, they removed some support columns and made the remaining columns dangerously thin. The dragging of heavy air conditioning units on the roof certainly didn't help as it weakened the already doomed structure. The owner who ordered the changes did spend time in prison for it. I guess that sounds strange when you've grown to expect a fine at worst for people in similar circumstances.

[@marcusaurelius49]

Rich people have been proving since time began that money does not make you smart.

[@misterhat5823]

But it does let you pay off people...

[@dietrich105]

I used to work on the top floor of the Aquadom building. To watch the fishes during breaks was really enjoyable and relaxing.

[@sergeantpeppers8858]

The tower in Pisa is actually bent. When they started building it again after a couple of centuries, they built straight up from there. You can see it from certain angles. I once watched a soccer game from the top of the bells. Could only see about half the field and have no idea who was playing, but had a good day up there.

[@Robert08010]

"A number of columns were removed to give way..." Yeah, that says it all.

[@foxymetroid]

The remaining columns were made thinner than originally designed to make even more room.

[@cocoedelie5054]

@@foxymetroidthey also cheaped out on the rods :(( there were supposed to be 16 around each column, the CEO wanted only 8

[@movienaut]

May I add that from a documentary from Discovery, they said that despite all the warnings of the structure from Sampoong store, Lee Joon ignored every warning, except one. The department of fire told him that his building doesn't have any security meassure incase fire ebrupts. Lee Joon said: "no problem!" and told his workers to put safety. How they did it, he told them to carve out parts of the building columns to install security. That was the final nail of 500 coffins.

[@farmplantsandseeds]

Good insight into reality. I would’ve had no idea these disasters took place if I didn’t have a KZbin subscription, and watched this video! So thanks for enlightening me, and all of us with the truth. Bravo 👏

[@rosemarymonty5399]

Great pics of the Pisa Tower which really is a monument to Man - for making the building mistake in 1173 and then for working on the Tower thru the many years so that it is still standing in 2023. Quite an accomplishment.

[@notme2day]

Amazing how soon after the incident in S. Korea, the people responsible were held responsible. Wish justice worked that way in America, instead the wheels of justice grind ever so slowly and/or sometimes not even at all.

[@red__guy]

In other countries Madoff would get community service. Saying it as a non American

[@IIIlIIIIlIIIII]

In China he would have been executed

[@fairamir1]

They said the outside of the Aqua Dom was below freezing. They said the air around it was below freezing. How could this be if it was located in the lobby ?

[@krisstopher8259]

yea it sounds strange

[@T0MT0Mmmmy]

It was a inner courtyard with a glass roof, not actually the lobby of the hotel. The courtyard also was not completely surrounded by the hotel, the hotel was just the biggest part of the building.

[@fairamir1]

They why do thay say it was inb the lobby ?@@T0MT0Mmmmy

[@suzettehenderson9278]

They never report how many fish died.

[@muc21]

On that day the outside temperature was below freezing. The Aqua Dome was inside the air conditioned hotel lobby that surely was kept at room temperature. So the claim made in this video doesn't make sense. There hasn't been a final conclusion to the cause of the collapse yet.

[@fmeraz37]

I can't wait to see the Three Gorges Dam take the number 1 spot in a follow-up video

[@jaquigreenlees]

2nd Narrows Bridge collapse during construction: On June 17, 1958, at around 3:40 p.m., two spans of the Second Narrows Bridge, then under construction, suddenly collapsed into Burrard Inlet. Seventy-nine workers fell. Among the 19 dead were 14 ironworkers, three engineers, a painter, and a commercial diver who died a few days later when he drowned trying to recover a body. Twenty others were seriously injured. The bridge was renamed Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing in 1994, to honour all who lost their lives during its construction.

[@lemapp]

In the 1980’s, a paper manufacturer discovered very fast growing trees in Brazil’s jungle. So they constructed a floating paper mill and sailed it deep into Brazil, because it was deemed impossible to build on the actual site. In the mean time, the company’s scientist reported back that the fast growing trees lacked the pulp needed for paper. So the trees were useless in paper making. The paper mill was left abandoned to rust and rot in Brazil. The equivalent of US$1 Billion was spent.

[@countryjoe3551]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Talk about putting the cart before the horse...

[@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928]

The construction of the Pisa - Campanile is perfect. It was built at the wrong place. The stable part is standing on an anchient roman pier, but the unstable one is where the old harbour bassain used to be.

[@edpetrocelli2633]

I was a bricklayer for 25yrs, if you don`t get your foundation right you`ll chase the mistake all the way through the roof, it works the same with people too, raise em up wrong and they`ll be a mess when they`re all grown up.

[@gentillydanny]

Lee Joon and his fellow murderers got off easy with ten years considering the 502 people who died from their greed. As far as construction failures and deadly greed, the Hard Rock Hotel here in New Orleans. To this day the site is a vacant dusty waste ground in the middle of the city. The right thing to do would be to turn this into a memorial park for the three men who died, and those two years that this abomination stood, half collapsed, with the poor bodies of two of those men partially exposed to street view.

[@peterhall387]

And the worker who warned management about unsafe shoring was deported as he wasn't here legally. How convenient for the company!

[@gentillydanny]

Yes, the whole thing absolutely stinks to heaven. It's six months after I wrote that comment; the lot is still a vacant waste on Canal and Rampart.

[@CharlieFlemingOriginal]

Aww the fish!

[@mazamette]

Tower of Pisa isn't mistake... It's just ICONIC tower.

[@Kyntteri]

That became ICONIC by a mistake.

[@foxymetroid]

It was supposed to be straight. The only reason it didn't collapse long ago is the fact it was delayed, giving the builders a chance to catch the tilt in time and make corrections.

[@ecospider5]

The leaning tower of Pisa is now fully stabilized. When they fixed the foundation with concrete they calculated how much it could lean and still be safe.

[@user-fq4ny4mo1l]

2 people hurt in that aquarium's collapse; 1500 fish perished. Not one mention of that. Are we so cold and calloused that no value is place on any life other than human?

[@danielalvarado9019]

I eat sushi.

[@Hitherto90]

Yes, yes we are.

[@sammymcfone8281]

Hell of a statement when I'm eating kippers...

[@Antigen__]

You seem like the type who watches gore videos for fun

[@_123Ackerman]

Ok what they can do for the fish ?

[@kalsitokanal2853]

So the Spanish building had NO MISTAKES only economic global crisis

[@rapcom]

You missed to add the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida which collapsed on June 24, 2021.

[@foxymetroid]

They missed hundreds of collapses. There's a limit as to how many they can realistically cover.

[@EinChris75]

Neither the M building in Spain nor the Tower of Pisa are Mistakes. But you can add that "The Wall" building. Or that building in Florida which collapsed some time ago.

[@blue9multimediagroup]

The Sampoong store cracks were also worsened by them dragging HVAC units across the roof instead of rolling them on dollies and that put strain on the remaining columns that weren't built for that weight.

[@alfnoakes392]

The Church steeple in Chesterfield, Yorkshire is a minor example of the sort of not-like-it-looked-on-the-plans-but-we-like-it-anyway mistake we see with the Leaning Tower. The tall spire is twisted (ie corkscrew-like), probably due to being built with unseasoned wood (but there are several theories) and very distinctive. It is quite a tourist attraction, and there are lots of local myths around how the 'twist' happened. Now that the wooden frame-work is approaching the end of its natural life, the question is "Do we put a fake twist in the replacement?".

[@twocarblues9576]

Derbyshire*

[@alfnoakes392]

@@twocarblues9576 Sorry, yes, Derbyshire. It is not far from where a relative lives in Yorkshire, hence my mistake.

[@markdowling287]

China is a house of cards. It literally has entire cities of giant apartment buildings with nobody in them and China’s property market is dominated by one giant company, which is billions of dollars behind on their debt obligations.

[@Allangulon]

New residences can only be leased from the CCP for 70 years, paid in full up front. With the sudden down turn in sales the CCP is facing imminent bankruptcy!

[@ozmorfgamereviews]

10 years in prison for that shop owner in Seoul isn't really justice. For that level of negligence and apathy, he deserves the death penalty. 500 people died, probably having no idea that the building was unstable. He even neglected to evacuate people in the building when it was obvious things were going south.

[@Bogidani]

That was a weird way to vizualize a 4° tilt with the 86° remaining to the ground. One may assume you dont know maths.

[@atimko123]

4° off vertical or off plumb

[@brahmburgers]

another: In Bangkok, Thailand, ....massive support structures were built for a train/tram to connect to their older airport (Don Muang), but the project never got beyond the supports, which are still visible, with rusting re-bar sticking out wildly at all angles.

[@L33tSkE3t]

China Recently demolished dozens of buildings filled with unsold properties. Remnants from the construction boom in the mid 2000s

[@pppaaattt8401]

The hotel with the fish tank was destined to fail. Crazy how the builders could but people and animals at risk. I’m so happy there were no human fatalities and sadden at all the beautiful fish that perished.

[@arakwar]

Have you covered Quebec bridge ? I don't remember if part of it still sits in the St Lawrence river...

[@djpalmer31]

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse 1981 accident in Kansas City.

[@AlexVictorianus]

Several ancient and medieval structures collapsed. Hagia Sophia’s first dome, a part of Beauvais Cathedral, and a part of Rome’s Circus Maximus, causing tens of thousands of deaths.

[@DieFlabbergast]

"tens of thousands"?? An exaggeration, surely.

[@davidsincity2549]

The Harmon in Las Vegas. The inspection company was doing Vegas instead of their job. About 14 floors had massive rebar sections installed upside down! The structures height was reduced by half and the architect insisted his name be removed. After litigation the entire never used structure was dismantled. It is now a new shopping center on the site.

[@brianmatthews9697]

I like the name of the construction director, Wang Rong. Perfect.

[@powertrip6426]

I'm surprised you didn't have the Florida apartments one. Several people were killed in it too 😞

[@csjaugiedog]

Very similar to the Leaning Tower of Piza is "The Old Hove" (another leaning tower) located in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

[@jaccovermeulen2762]

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is a nice example, but maybe more a project management disaster.

[@patrickdowdle5121]

In 1970 part of the West Gate Bridge that was being built in Melbourne collapsed . A 112 meter span dropped 50 meters into the Yarra river killing 35 construction workers . A Royal Commission concluded on 14 July 1971 attributed the failure of the bridge to two causes: the structural design by designers Freeman Fox & Partners, and an unusual method of construction by World Services and Construction, the original contractors for the project.

[@mattbosley3531]

You know there's a difference between a construction mistake and an engineering mistake, right? There was nothing wrong with the construction of the tower of Pisa. It was an engineering issue, that they didn't know the condition of the underlying soil.

[@alukuhito]

Way to be pedantic.

[@BPo75]

@@alukuhito Which is why you hire engineers when you don't want to wing it.

[@sumelar]

You know there might be an academic difference, but when discussing the end result it's the same thing. Right.

[@BPo75]

@@sumelar Wrong.

[@sumelar]

@@BPo75 What a brilliant rebuttal.

[@mikmik9034]

I heard that the Pisa Topwer underwent so adapations to correct the tilt during construction. An attempt to 'straighten' the tilt.

[@stormbowman7148]

That is true. You can see that the top of the tower tilts less than the bottom of the tower. It has a slight "banana" shape.

[@sallyomahony1108]

Intempo looks like a giant version of those hoppers that fill lorries. Every time I passed it I was looking for the conveyor belts taking stuff up to the hopper. It still looked unoccupied when I was there last October.

[@Grafight23]

Intempo was obviously not a construction mistake, but a project with financial problems.

[@roy3tev]

Surfside condominium collapse happened here in Miami in 2021. Awful incident.

[@ivanleterror9158]

The collapse of the pedestrian bridge at Miami U.

[@lukasrentz3238]

I remember the Berlin Aqua Dome incident quite well. I´ve seen it in the News in the early Morning and wrote a Message to a friend. He was immediately checking the seismological stations nearby and prepared a tweet which then went viral and got picked up by german and then international Media.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

Of all the projects shown here, that one seems the most glaring example of sheer stupidity. And for what? Decorating the lobby of a hotel?

[@rob-time]

Grenfel Tiower, London. Fire CN Tower, Toronto. Unable to remove the support base holding up the pod, so it was incorporated as part of the final design

[@42k78]

Weren't there 1500 fish in that tank or something like that? And we're worried about the lobby getting destroyed!? I was much more sad about all the fish dying, all because they were a display for people to look at while they ride the elevator up and down. Still a great video. That last one shocked me.

[@NorthieStangl]

I'm surprised that the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang isn't featured at all in this video. It took THREE decades to complete.

[@scotttowle8208]

Also it had other flaws to the point it was useless?

[@krisstopher8259]

@@scotttowle8208 the concrete was weather damaged cause it was unprotected for like 20 yrs. you could even see it bending looking at some zoomed in pics before they covered everything in glass

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

European cathedrals routinely took centuries to complete.

[@NorthieStangl]

@@CarFreeSegnitz That's because people value quality over quantity back then. There is a reason those cathedrals are still standing after centuries.

[@hebneh]

Is it truly completed?

[@4ctina246]

10 years when 500+ people died 😒

[@ShadyRapture]

Fr wtf

[@sproglode]

Great video, except for one major flaw. You do not need to include distracting music backtracks - they are so frustrating that many, including mystelf, turn off the sound and read, where available, subtitles.

[@axxxonn]

There was a ghanal lumber facility that had a new location being built. Being a lumber company, they wanted their new parking garage to have wood frame elements. The lumber could not support the weight of the structure and collapsed.

[@PaulaDautremont]

I feel sorry for all of those beautiful fish being killed.

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Top Luxury.

[@jwillisbarrie]

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf

[@rocketsheep420]

For the ones who wonder: Sadly all 15000 fishs in the Berlin Aquadome died at the aciedent

[@cwnbn3226]

"Only" 1500 fishes were in the tank and died.

[@savethebottle]

The reply says 15 thousand not fifteen hundred. I am sick to think that these beautiful fish were left to die. They didn't deserve.

[@muc21]

@@savethebottle Definitely 1500, not 15000. A simple google search will tell you that. Just look at the tank. You could never keep 15 thousand fish in this with enough water to keep them alive.

[@nickbrutanna9973]

How did you miss the giant, unusable, unused hotel in North Korea? A place known for its tourist attractions... right? The Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang. Taller than the Eiffel Tower or the Chrysler Building, its 3000 rooms have never been occupied for about 30 years. Then there's the Soviet Space Shuttle facility, for the Buran, which was never put into service (the "mistake" in this case was thinking the shuttle would ever fly)

[@mackisbrocklesnar]

none of these are construction mistakes. those were planning errors

[@ostrich67]

The Buran shuttle DID fly, once, making two unmanned orbits around Earth in November 1988.

[@PsyckoSama]

Insanely fast, efficient, and record breaking... what a polite way of Tofu Dreg

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

There are lots of leaning towers in Italy: Bologna, Venice, Burano, to name a few. The two in Bologna are dizzying, as they lean towards each other. You could also have mentioned the tower in Piazza San Marco in Venice that collapsed completely in 1902.

[@arkady714]

The iconic structures that you recount in these iconic stories just show what an iconic subject this is. The iconic work you've done means that this video will always be iconic.

[@barbaraperry5023]

It would seem that you are iconically obsessed with the word 'iconic'...😂

[@arkady714]

@@barbaraperry5023 You’ve an iconic sense of humor. That said, I remember hearing a show nearly five years ago on BBC radio when a voicemail was left by a man (with an Indian accent) called in to complain about their overuse of the word, stating that it was losing its meaning. Sure enough, three examples came to mind. Actor Stanley Tucci, in a travel show he hosted, described a certain Italian dessert as iconic. Also, Jennifer Lopez’s then fiancé, Arod, was referred to as a “Yankees icon.” Finally, a Doritos TV ad called one of their flavors “iconic.” This video is another mind numbing example. 🤪

[@patricklindahl868]

@3:13 The Intempo Skyscraper may have been the highest building within the EU at the time, but now the Karlatornet in Göteborg Sweden is higher, 246 m with 74 floors.

[@pawelzielinski1398]

I think that was specifically the highest RESIDENTIAL building. There are certainly taller buildings than that in EU.

[@topioksanen8734]

@@pawelzielinski1398 Karlatornet IS residential. Or rather will be, as construction on it is not finished.

[@pawelzielinski1398]

@@topioksanen8734 OK. Good to know.

[@markvwood2007]

I liked that you talked about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So few do.

[@JapChinLuvr]

I would recommend the study of the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco in any future videos of construction failures.

[@bernhardhoedjes4371]

did you know that the rescue and restoration of the belltower of Pisa has been realized by MEXICAN arquitects???

[@robbannstrom]

...using arquebuses, I suppose?

[@Pvosinc]

it’s not the most populous any more - fact - india has surpassed it -

[@BlueShellshock]

Engineer: "...Hold on, we are being paid for this, right?" Architect: "I'm going to make pants into a building!"

[@HermenegildoSvenningsen]

Love the attention to detail here.

[@leopold7562]

I dunno, I don't think I'd consider the Intempo Tower a construction mistake. It's hardly a mistake to start building something in a boom, only to watch the bubble burst and your money evaporate before you've finished. It wasn't a mistake that someone made a false claim about the lack of elevators. It was possibly a mistake that the second lot of constructors hit the wall while trying to resurrect it, without fully appreciating the magnitude of what it was going to take

[@tonyp2865]

The building was fine, its mostly intact lying on the ground so it must have been built well.

[@niner8275]

Nice presentation and no annoying "zooming heads"! 🙂

[@dl703]

You should also cover the collapse of New World Hotel in Singapore which happened in 1986