The Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse (Disaster Documentary)
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In both highly developed countries and those underachieving, public architecture is the showcase of national pride. In the early 2000s, the French proudly presented Terminal E of the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris - the masterpiece of Architecture. Less than a year later, it became an embarrassment on a world-scale level.
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"an inadequate capacity to resist stress " same
Yes, very relatable!
Relatable
I felt that one, doll.
I found it fascinating that you for some reason left out the fact that another of Paul Andreu's designs failed during construction due to design errors - September 28 2004 Dubai international Airport. The same year and only months apart from the Charles de Gaulle warnings were ignored during design and construction on both it seems that he was painted in a much better light in this documentary than he should have been.
I totally agree! It seems to me the guy was "so famous" it was like George Lucas with Episode I where nobody questioned his designs (that and he looks to have been getting on in years.) He was the LEAD engineer; I still can't believe this happened. Either a century ago or in a developing nation _maybe_ but 2004?
Don't be so insufferable.
@@tigereye973 Imagine calling someone insufferable for not tolerating an engineer's disregard for public safety
Even before the causes of this accident were given, the narrator said one line "...this was his last airport design" ... If that wasn't foreshadowing I don't know what is. I picked up on that as soon as he said it.
@@icantthinkofausername2605 do you know the difference between an engineer and an architect (which is what tube guy was).
Time and time again, those in charge of making structures expected to house and/or protect humans cut corners and rush construction so that they can save money. It's absolutely criminal.
What better place to put in flying buttresses than an airport? Who knows, having them might hav helped.
@Leila Pereira 😩" YOU KNOW IT!.... On top of that, most international legal systems rarely convict those criminally liable or responsible. The most frightening aspect of it all is the public never knows which small or great structures may collapse upon or beneath them, at any given moment, resulting in their death or severe injury. "
I work for french public transportations, and I absolutly hate the fact that this disaster doesn't have a french page on wikipedia, and It's difficult to find articles about this incident and the prosecutions that happened in 2018 in my language. I'm not saying that the truth was hidden, but everybody forgot about what could have been one of the worst disaster in France since the Mont Blanc tunnel blaze.
I was there in 2017, i have traveled the world and i have to say - Charles De Gaulle is a shitshow of an airport.
They messed up so many things , making passengers run around in circles ending up missing their flight.
Ever visited Chicago O’Hare? I’ve always referred to it as “The Black Hole”. That airport straight out sucks.
Try to get to Terminal 2 at the Salt Lake International Airport. They definitely made it look pretty, but have a nice jog! (or sprint, if you're making a connection from T1)
I think LAX is pretty bad to. Unfinished construction, heavy traffic, lots of passangers...and its even harder to get out of the airport because transportation so expensive.
Ever visited Toronto Pearson? its a great airport. 10/10 recommend.
@@weltonvillegal6258 You beat me to it. I was going to comment on the same thing. I once knew a person who worked in TSA and Chicago is where you went if the agency was trying to get rid of you. But having travelled through O'Hare myself I can say that its issue comes down to one thing. It is just too damn big. Way too much traffic in and out of that air port. You couldn't pay me enough to work air traffic control there.
Found you off Fascinating Horror's channel links. Subbed! Love the pace, tone and pictures.
Same here
I like Fascinating Horror’s voice better. But that’s just me. (probably because I found that channel before this channel) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@alitlweird Yeah, FH's ambience, voice and pacing is 👌
Same here as well
Did I get this correctly? The cleaning staff found the ceiling crumbling, but still the terminal has been opened on that day? If concrete slowly cracks over time, it's one thing, but if you can noticeably see it evolving (e.g. when concrete dust is coming from the ceiling), then it's absolutely not acceptable to open the terminal. You don't need to be an expert on this to take such precautionary measures.
Yup. It would've been a lot more work than just 'keep that section closed', tho. People don't enter airports just from the main entrance. To make sure people don't go in the at-risk section, they'd have to redirect all ground traffic to other terminals; for a busy airport like this one, it's easier said than done and might result in some in-air diversions. Just putting up a bit of caution tape and turning people away wouldn't cut it.
as they said they quickly evaluated the situation and started evacuation but :
- You don't empty such a big airport with people with luggahges or who refuse not to miss their flight.
- You must first send someone to ensure that there is a problem, you can't just close one of the world busiest airport because a cleaner reported dust falling from the ceilling. That would lead to gigantic money lost but also a huge security risk, it could be a way to facilitate a sabotage, create a dangerous panic mouvement or a terrorist might use the evacuation to sneak and plant a bomb. I'm not even speaking of waiting for the crowd to accumulate in front of the batiment, outside of the security filters and start shooting in the mass.
What happen is that it took a lot of time for the cleaners to head to their superiors, do a report, for them to head to the place, ensure there was a problem, come back and declare the emergency and so the evacuation.
Its not just screaming "everybody out and run for your lives"....
BTW these terminals are never closed, cleaners do their duty while passengers walk around. They didn't "finished then someone decided to open the terminal"
@@justeunfan3364 That is not what I heard. And yes: It should be possible to evacuate an airport quickly. If that is not possible, there is something seriously wrong. And also yes: You can absolutely close such an airport. People just need to have the guts to value life over money. And if that poses a security risk, then there is something wrong in the airport design and/or evacuation procedures. Also, you would be surprised how many terminals close over night even at major airports. That depends mostly on the traffic. If there happens to be no traffic at that night, it's just convenient to close and it saves money.
@@fr89k As I said the longest part is to ensure there is a problem. Things like that are extremly rare, even more in a new structure so it took time to inspect the ceiling. You can close a terminal, but you wont do it 10 time a day everytime a passenger find someone looking suspicious or a cleaner finding concrete dust. It could have been someone installing a new equipment with a drilll the previous day and not cleaning its dust.
Then the took mesures but sadly it was too late
It's all about MONEY MONEY MONEY.
It was a still considered a tragedy for 4 families :(
Great coverage, thank you
Please get rid of that slide changer sound effect ..
Your inability to pronounce names and places correctly, combined with your stock footage and pictures that are not related to the actual events, make your videos unwatchable
What's with that irritating transition between photos-
So what happened to the structure? Did they repair it, reinforce it, replace it, or what?
Bump
I looked it up for you. After reconstructing and improving it, they reopened the terminal in 2008.
Thank you for this video. I was there at the terminal and had just boarded the plane from terminal 2E to fly back to South Africa. We had just taken off when the pilot announced that the terminal had just collapsed. I still remember the heavy rain that night and that our flight had been delayed.
Typical of a pilot to make such a casual comment. Clearly he was used to bits just dropping off his aircraft. 😊😊
I went through this terminal in the middle of the summer and it was miserable. Not sure if they have air conditioning or not, but with all the light coming in the windows it was hot and smelly inside.
France is smelly everywhere.
Thank You for the documentary - but Please - its Aeroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle. De Gaulle, not du Gaulle. Im not french, but the repeated mispronunciation hurts. Its like calling the JFK Airport "John E. Kennedy"
A man spent over 15 years living in this airport due to an invalid passport
This was a good informative video, but calling the collapse not “a full-scale tragedy” at 03:47 because “only” four people were killed is a dangerous mindset to settle in. Four deaths is four too many deaths.
I think he's just acknowledging that it could have killed hundreds had it happened a little bit later in the morning
@@johnr797 Yeah, not the best wording for sure.
@@johnr797 Or when comparing it to a usual collapse it really isn't, usually they do kill 100s.
I imagine this architect putting hundreds of pictures of this really cool looking terminal in his portfolio and when you ask him if that's the one that collapsed, he just scoffs "not completely, I mean like, only FOUR people died, so it wasn't even really important. HIRE ME"
its also not a full scale tragedy in the way only a small part collapsed du to the general shape. When such huge buildings fail the entire structure cant collapse and disintegrate, killing everyone inside and close outside. Here most of the building was intact and even some people who were buried under the concrete survived because the concrete arches kept their shapes and didn't failed. So compared to what it could have been its " not a full scale tragedy".
“Nick of a moment”?? Try “nick of time” instead lol
That was very odd. A number of RUclips videos have strange phrasing like this, even when English seems to be the native language of the narrator. Maybe language is just dying online.
Or “in a split second” …not being mean, but this narrator mispronounces a lot of words 🤷🏼♀️
Who cares lmao. Touch grass
@@DelGTAGrndrs you’re a GTA tryhard my g....
As a german, my languge has been butchered online ever since. So dont complain
I was there back in March 2004. I didn't know it collapsed. That's very sad.
VIDEO: The futuristic construction looked amazing and was awe inspiring. (Then shows a picture of the inside of said terminal).
ME: Meh...looks pretty basic, actually.
That's what I thought too. It's nice, but not really amazing. Modern architecture is rather boring. In contrast, look at medieval... well, medieval anything. Gothic, Japan, China. Or go to the old quarters of Colombia's capital, etc. Modern architecture isn't bad, but it isn't that great either.
It was in 2004, the horrible concrete towers of suburbs looked as impressive in 1980/1990 as things like the burj kalifa or modern suspended briges look today.
Please don't use this type of transition anymore. It's extremely annoying. I've seen it in other videos and it's like being repeatedly slapped in the face.
It was found that a contributing cause of the collapse was that the walkway tubes on the backside of the construction weakened the rigidity of the overall structure. Those walkways were an afterthought and were not calculated into the original plans .
Yeah and that’s also where a lot can go wrong since it’s messing with the original design if not done with extra care.
Im telling u, flying buttresses, man. They shoulda had them.
Nothing at all to do with those. Did you actually listen to the article and what was reported? There were inherent faults in the construction the ceiling collapsed.
architects just draw, engineers are the ones who actually make it work, or in this case fail
Exactly, for large projects like this it seems unlikely the lead architect had much to do with the structure.
Architects can and do design the structure regularly for houses and other smaller or less complex buildings though.
Architects are supposed to do the calculations to make sure the structure supports its own weight too.
@@CrazyMazapan I had architect friends and I had civil engineer friend. Trust me I never recalled my architect friend did civil engineering mathematic. I mean my roommate is architect and me engineer myself so I sit with them often.
Part of me thinks this was all done within the same company. And this architect was both the CEO and the lead architect. If I'm right, it would still come down to the engineers within the firm not double checking their numbers to make sure it could hold its own weight. If there is a blessing here, it is that only one section collapsed.
Actually the laborers make it happen. Engineers are pencil pushers too just like architects
The design reminds me of the airport Leipzig/Halle in Germany. There is also a long tube with the check-in-counters and access to the parking areas. This airport construction does have support pillars in it.The airport in Leipzig, Germany was opened in 1924 and rebuilt after WW2. Then 1993 the Terminal A was remodeled, a few years later Terminal B was opened. In 2003 the new central terminal that reminds me of the here shown CDG terminal was finisehd and opened. There you also have access to a train station that's used by long-distance and commuter trains.
Design looks like a baguette
It is a systematic failure of the construction sector that architect are not trained in structural engineering.
All building design drafts are sent to structural engineers who do the engineering. They can fully put the kibosh on a proposed plan if it is unrealistic, unsafe, or just doesn't meet standards. Also, we are trained in basic structural engineering and material sciences; at least I was. People educated decades ago, like him? I don't know. In my opinion, blame for nearly any and all structural failures like this land on the shoulders of everyone involved in the process. Engineers have a responsibility to design a capable support structure, builders have a responsibility to build it with safe materials and through safe practices, and architects have the responsibility to oversee and manage the entire design process as we are the only ones who are present through every step. The real systemic failure is the priority of profits and cost cutting above human safety. That actually seems to be a theme in Dark History's videos.
@@Tadesan Do you work within the Architectural field or even adjacent? The whole design process is extremely rigorous requiring the production of hundreds of drawings and design schematics that dictate specifications on nearly any and all aspects of a building's design that you can think of; which makes this failure even more damning for all involved in each step of construction, at least in my opinion. Every element of this building that led to the failure was likely a written, drawn, or indicated value on a construction document and the architect should know about what the hell they're designing. But that also means that the deficiencies were right there on paper and should have been caught by the engineers during the structural review of the proposed design.
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The design was stupid in many ways... My favorite was the incoming passengers going up the escalators directly to passport control.. no holding area.. people had to walk backwards whi!e the escalator moved under their feet
Sorry, but this one doesn't work for me.
The flashing/shaking photos during the drumming sound made me feel dizzy. I can't imagine what effect it would have on someone with a severe disability, maybe it would help having a Warning at the beginning of the video.
The microphone this guy is using makes his voice come out with a metallic edge, like a robot in a science fiction film. I like robots, but don't want to take lessons from them.
The video is kind of unfinished, it would be good to know how this tragedy affected and changed the building rules and regulations and what has been done to prevent it from happening again. In other words, the legacy of this event.
The lack of research led to the misrepresentation of the architect and calling the Dubai airport collapse his 'masterpiece' is grotesque.
I'm not commenting on the mispronunciation, we all make mistakes with foreign names and places (but at least we don't do it on YT).
The photos in general were a bit confusing, rarely showing what he was talking about.
The rest was ok, interesting, not too fast, not too long, lots of technical information, perfectly balanced: sometimes professional, sometimes funny. Good effort with room for improvement.
I'll watch his next video and see how it goes 😊
The structure was faulty because it was completely made of cheese and white flags.
This is why the *profit motive* of capitalism should not be involved where health, life and safety could be an issue. It only cares about short term gains, not long term consequences.
I couldn't get through most of the video because you're mispronouncing "de" as "du". Those are different words. "deh" vs "doo"
I must say i’ve been to some airports and Charles de Gaulle airport was the ugliest one of them. Even with all these “fancy” designs the place just looks boring. Plain concrete walls with no coating whatsoever. These are the things you notice way more when you’re trying to catch a flight than some tunnel shaped terminals.
Wait a minute. The airport is pronounced 'Charl'? I've been calling it 'Charles'. Why didn't someone tell me. Oh I've been making an idiot of myself
in french in most cases the final "e" is silent, you only prononce the last consomn. The plural "s" too, for exemple "tables" is pronounced "tabl". the "e" is barely pronouced, and sound like "eu"
Would you mind posting the sources from where you pulled information from the committee investigation report?
I thought it was also how and where they cut gates into the side of the concrete weakening it significantly
Is videos okay give some information but then gives out and does not tell you the rest of the story
Your production quality is so high it shocks me that your views aren't in the 6 digits.
Your focus on finding and telling these stories from all around the world is something I massively appreciate!!
Yeah! wth
Give it time...I only JUST found this channel and weird stuff is my thing.
Maybe while researching the story, you research pronunciation of the name. Just a thought.
To this day, pretty architecture engineers don't consult with actual building engineers all the time. Looks are everything... to heck with safety. O know so many apartment building that look great on the grounds and in the main buildings with offices or the office area itself but structurally they let them run into the ground and put pretty tape on everything. It's pathetic how little integrity people actually have.
I was waiting for that flight to Prague. Craziest, scariest moment of my life was running from that collapse. Started about 100 ft behind where I was standing at the time.
I'd say it was still a full scale tragedy to at least 4 families
750 million Euro in 2004 is the equivalent to over 1 billion Euro today. All so some passengers who are just passing through. I can understand spending on a hotel or a resort where people would stay for days, but why waste this kind of money an airport terminal? I use to travel by air quite a lot and did it to and from at least 7 international airports and I could not care less what they looked like. All I wanted was to be on my way from the airport to my destination.
The billion didn' go into the style, but just the building. Its way bigger and must be way more secure than a regular hotel. You have to take into account the managing of huge crowds, the vibration from the planes etc. Plus its was a state command and seing how much money tourism bring to France is a very low investisment. We shuld never look at the abolute price, but the ratio between the price and the money it will bring back.
I always find it sickening how low the fines are in cases like this where people die....200 some thousand euros? For four lives? Insulting.
Also 4 deaths no individual or aspect of construction held accountable where jail time should be issued to those who made these cost cutting decisions
"Du" Galle? Oh, brother.....cant continue watching.
I've been to many airports in the USA and around but nothing is quite as ugly and horrible to circumnavigate as Charles de Gaulle. Paris Orly isn't that great either. Post-WW2 architecture in northern France is generally hideous. Is there a colder, uglier business district than La Défense in Paris?
Et nom de dieu c'est triste orly la dimanche
Our airports claim to fame is the giant resin Holstein cow in the waiting area/baggage claim... but hey give em credit... it didn't land on anyone (yet).
I’d like that more than any fancy-schmancy architecture......at least the moo-cow reminds us of something useful.
Wow, I did not expect the name of my home region to appear in the comment section of a video about a disaster in France. I didn't know our cows were so famous. :D
When he said "instead of consulting the construction engineers, the management increased the pressure to finish the job earlier and at a lesser cost" all I could think of was, oh great, another one of those.
..."prevented it from being a tragedy"...?
My dude, we call it a mass shooting if there are four or more victims. And four the friends and families of those four people, I'd say it was pretty tragic. Maybe you meant 'large-scale tragedy?' A nuanced change, but one that kind of matters a lot in this case.
No build should ever be designed with no redundancies
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This is a great channel. If you dig it, you might also like Brick Immortar.
"the South African Republic" not gonna lie sounds weird af, guess I'm just used to it being either RSA, South Africa or The Republic of South Africa.
TBH nobody gives af if an airport has cool designs. We, as passengers, only give f for its accessibility. It could be square square square square and square as long as it’s easy to navigate
I have to disagree, not with you fine sir presenting the video. You are just presenting the reality we are forced to live in regards to rules, law, regulations. I mean the concept when people know better and actively decide to do things like what these people did. I think its not involuntary manslaughter when you truly know better and decided to cheap out, not to properly secure buildings with the appropriate materials, etc. I think you should be actively charged for manslaughter. You know better and made the decision. Im not saying it solves issues entirely. Though i think a lot less would do what they do when charges actually dont make you some victim almost in your own way.
in a principal way, this is not someone getting into your car and then forcing you at gun point to drive into a crowd and kill people. Thats what i would say is involentary manslaughter or something. This is you deciding im gunna actively drive into the crowd. Its your decision. Im not saying the engineers entirely are responsible in all circumstance cause the company can in a non literal way hold you livelihood at gun point. Though when the company chooses to clearly ignore the engineers who actively know better. ya those heads should be charged with manslaughter. thats why we have engineers
Modernist architecture at it's finest indeed.
u didnt get the memo huh
It just looks unsafe, a long flat tube, just like tunnels are not built, or arches - even if it hadn't falling down after a year what state would it be in after 20 years - another beardy weirdy modern architect thinking they know better than gravity .
Oh wow. I've flown into CDG multiple times and somehow never knew about this.
The factor was expansion and contraction of dissimilar materials breaking attachments
4 dead and fined 225,000 euros, good to know my life is worth about the same second-hand Range Rover.
Really appreciate this fascinating/tragic series. I like to watch this sort of content a lot but there's still loads in your channel I've never heard of. Great editing, great work - can't believe you don't have more subscribers (now you definitely have one more). Keep it up! 💪
Was the rest of the building demolished?
*IT LOKS BEAUTIFUL, NO?*
*IS IT SAFE?*
*IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL, NO?*
*BUT* *IS* *IT* *SAFE!?*
*YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ART.*
Oops to using rebuilt images whilst talking about the original design.
I've been to that airport, but it was way before this terminal that collapsed had even been built. What can I say? It was an airport. The rest of Paris was better than its airport but that's probably true of most of our airports in the world. The airport is just there for you to get on and off of planes and you do that, not because you want to see the airport, but because you want to see the place that the airport is in.
The story is interesting but the edit of the video not so much. Probably the worst I've seen on this channel.
This place sucked. Bad design. Unsafe. Ugly too, in my opinion.
Nick of a moment? Wtf kinda language is that
It's an English idiom
The Pantheon in Rome is still standing.
It was a full scale tragedy, just not a full scale catastrophe.
5:08 peculiarlarity lol
Architects are artists and rarely fail to overhear or actively ignore engineers, it is sad.
And the officials are just as vain.
I've seen a bunch of videos like this, and what bugs me the most is that nearly ALL of them have a common theme; cutting corners or using cheap materials to lower the cost.
Okay, so KNOWING that this is a problem, why continue to do it?? It's like "this building collapsed, this plane crashed, this (I sent tragedy here) because they didn't follow protocol. Cool! Let's not follow protocol!" 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
How tf does that make sense? Why do we keep making mistakes like this?
The problem is that there is not a "sure" cost to invest. You can put billions in ecess in a projet and still having it to fail because of a forgotten parrameter, or a unthinkable event. In general they cut corner while still keeping a margin and allowing the building to survive some mistake or event, but they put a limit somewere. I don't try to cover those who illegaly cut corners and fall under legal requirement, just that you will always go for the cheapest option. We will never heard that a building failed but the constructors had spend more money to keep a margin, even if its the case all the time, and also here. Its less sentational and easier to blame constructor than the bad luck
@@justeunfan3364 Good point.
Best french........ wow. that sets the bar low. I thought it was ugly like some disco nightmare from the 70's. Prayers for those hurt and for the families of those killed by this monstrosity.
Starting 2:15 and later, these are pictures of the rebuilt tube, not the crashed original one !
Each time there's a wooden layer inside, it is the rebuilt one, not the original one !
Sounds like this architect guy wasn’t as awesome as everyone thought he was.
Wasn't even his worst job, one of the terminals he designed in Dubai fell over before it was even opened.
It was designed to look like a giant baguette.
As with ALL these structural failures from all over the world you always see one consistent fact, there is no oversight by the one's that check and approve/disapprove the work of all involved. This is always the case when a disaster occurs and there is an investigation. The one's that will tell you if it will work or not are always absent in the planning and construction process but are always brought in after a disaster to render a judgement against those involved.
It’s 18 years since The Charles de Gaulle Airport terminal Collapsed
Pride comes before the fall!
This is why practicality and safety should always trump style.
I'ma be honest that terminal was very ugly
Of course the structure surrendered against gravity, it's French.
Lame joke man, come off of it
Robot voice bad.
I like how when there's a large mass of people who loose their lives its considered as a tragedy, however... When its just four people, its not considered as a tragedy. Loss of life, especially when unnessary is still a tragedy.
Ok they attempted an evacuation as soon as they could. I’ve watched a few docs, for example of a case in India where a gas leak was involved where the staff decided to have a tea break rather than take immediate action.
I get the idea of open airy spaces is the new thing in beauty but...things need structural support
It was fugly to begin with.
I've watched this before but the description of the terminal as 'modern, sleek, airy and full of light' (not exact words) sounded familiar and it suddenly struck me why: A very similar description was applied to the atrium of the Hyatt Regency hotel before the two walkways collapsed back in 1980, and for a similar reason - except in the case it wasn't built as designed, but a minor change that went unnoticed had far worse consequences in the deaths of over a hundred people, something that could easily have happened at Charles de Gaulle had this disaster taken place later in the day.
How about BUILT STUFF MORE EFFICENTLY! rather than fancy?! Its an airport! People want to get the HELL OUT OF IT... its not a f hotel! Not like cost overruns aint common enough
Structural engineers are to blame. The structural design was deficient and possibly their supervision of installed work. The architect always gets all the blame or all the glory.
The design looks futuristic
Me: looks like a baguette
Please consider not using the sound effect when changing images- it is REALLY distracting. TIA
When I heard “Collapse” and “Charles De Gaulle Airport” I thought”The Concorde”.
I'm a huge fan of this channel!
However, I wanted to give some advice to maybe consider being a little more sensitive to the wording when describing tragedies, like in this video. It sort of sounded like the tragedy was downplayed since "only" four passengers died. Four is still a lot if you think about it... And if my family died in an accident and someone said, "Oh, it's only just x amount of people, that's not that bad compared to whatever" I would feel upset.
Just some constructive input to help this channel improve more and more. No bad vibes and I hope this doesn't hurt your feelings, I come from a good place and I know you do too. Thanks again for the video and keep up the rest of the great work!
Nah... No one learned anything. Seriously, at this point, can anyone even claim these events are accidents. How many times does cutting costs have to be a key factor in disasters? Sure, it's not the only factor, but it played a part. It ALWAYS plays a part. Cutting costs costs lives. Involuntary, my foot. It's voluntary at this point. If they cut costs, rushed construction/planning, or ignored warning signs, they knew what they were doing. They should have known. They just put their greed or pride above people's lives and hoped the worst wouldn't happen. And for what? In the end, it always costs far more to deal with the damage than it would have to just do things the way they are supposed to be done. Regulations and guidelines aren't there for *****s and giggles.
😧Paris is more known to me for Lady Diana's death than any other building or architecture. I still cant believe she died that day in the tunnel. Probably she escaped in 1997?
Doomed to fail..top architech what a terrible design arched concrete smh
And this my freinds is why you don’t ask architects for advice on structural supports
Nobody calls it the "South African Republic". The thing that amazes me with anything produced by Americans is that in most cases ignorance of world geography abounds. Do your research before uploading your videos.
Caution : all those making fancy infrastructure must see this. Infrastructure shall be first efficient and effective then fancy.
It looks like everything else, CRAP!
Like always people dies because of budget cuts, it's all about money and not lives