The crappy railway one. Live in scotland(North of scotland)..that we help pay for(from our pocket money budget from westminster). Its only going to Birmingham....
King Abdullah Economic City, which is one of the largest projects in Saudi Arabia years ago, despite its beautiful idea, but the controversy over the feasibility of the project is whether it will succeed or not.
Have you ever heared of the Park called : Ankapark ? It has been wasted 801 milyon US $ . It is a huge discuss in Turkey right now . You should have a look .
The Sydney Opera House may have blown the budget, but it's still much loved, iconic and frequently used. Can't say the same for most bloated, impractical, single use Olympic facilities.
Was going to point this out when I saw this. Like the channel - so won't infer they're this bad, but the worst example of geographic ignorance I've ever seen comes from a documentary called "The Imposter" years ago: 16 year old kid goes missing from his family home in Texas. 3 years later the police call the family to say they've located him in Spain. Kid's older sister or aunt, whatever... Possibly both: "They found him in Spain?! Isn't that like the other side of the country?!". 🤣
it's like they said at 12:41, under-reporting the true costs is how a lot of these projects gain favour, and they never account for social aspects of the project, such as strikes, because "people are unpredictable, and so we shouldn't account for them at all" or whatever
As a swiss I always enjoy pointing at the two tunnels under the alps built by the end of last century: 17 billions spent, perfectly on time and almost on budget!
@@samluca1244 In German "Gotthard Basistunnel" and "Lötschberg Basistunnel", combined with the Ceneri tunnel to connect with Italy it's called the "Neue Alpentransversale NEAT"
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
The Sydney Opera House ended up in the black because it was funded from lottery revenue, not the taxpayer. There's two issues with the video though, the flag shown is the Flag of New Zealand, not the Flag of Australia. Secondly, the photo of the Commonwealth Parliament is irrelevant - the Opera House was built by the New South Wales Government.
1 Sydney, Australia, would be nothing like what it is without the SOH. It is the only design that breathes, connects land to sea. Since the original completion, the lower walkway was built, as per Utzon's original design. It is a landmark location to view the quay and Harbour Bridge. It's a great spot. Nowhere to park, though ...
11:55 The railway going left.... You just crossed the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland before crossing it again to get in Scotland. That's physically impossible! No bridge or tunnel can ever be build over/under that sea due to its depth and the fact that tons of unused WWII bombs were dumped there after the War! Not to mention the political compilations. This is common knowledge within the UK, and I highly doubt HS2's original plan had this in it. But hey, I could be wrong. Please can someone provide the source of this impossible plan.
It is technically feasible to build a tunnel to Ireland. The real problems are the cost and lack of political will. In any case, that map is massively wrong. HS2 goes nowhere near Ireland, instead using the existing WCML to head north into Scotland. I have no idea how they messed up that badly.
I think that the Al-Ula projects deserve to be filmed because it is the sleepy city rich in archaeological treasures, which the Al-Ula Development Authority seeks to be one of the most important ancient cities visited by tourists in the world Among its most important projects is the establishment of an international airport + a journey through time + the development of archaeological sites + the construction of markets, hotels, hospitality services, etc..
The thing is if you're building something as big as any of these projects, *there's no way you're not gonna go over the budget.* It happens in all parts of the world. *Maybe not in China or Japan.*
There are two laws of large projects: Law 1) They always take more time and money than you planned Law 2) Law 1 stays true even if your plans took Law 1 into account ..
SOH couldn't be built when it was designed and drove many world first innovations. Major cost blowouts were also caused by the Symphony Orchestra taking the larger Opera theatre for itself which forced the Opera into a cramped smaller theatre forcing a costly redesign mid construction. Tens of millions in cost overruns were also caused by political interference from a petty minded jealous conservative party sabotaging the project and withholding the architect Jorn Utzons fees which forced his office to close further delaying and costing the project more when the Government Architects office effectively stole the project. Despite this Utzons masterpiece was completed and is a building for 1000yrs - it has recouped its cost many times over. Its iconic and a major tourist draw.
The final shape of the shells significantly reduced the size of the auditoriums, the spherical sections curve in at the base, whereas the original undefined shape (see some of the early drawings and models) went almost vertical at the base. The original idea was to use thin shell roofs, Arup hired the world's foremost expert on thin shells, a thin shell solution was finally ruled impossible due to physics. The massively heavy, final, engineering design meant that they had to blast the original foundations to create far larger foundations - people noticed. Really, the shells didn't cost that much, stuffing them with an interior and all the associated plant was really expensive. For anyone interested, the ribs are epoxied together, normal methods like mortar were too slow and imprecise, Arups had done epoxy bonding before but not on this scale. The shells had to keep exactly to the spherical shape to within a tolerance of a few millimeters, any errors could become cumulative. I very much doubt that any "normal" building has been built to this level of accurately either before or since (and no I do not class supercolliders or their ilk as normal buildings).
In essence, the project's main problems started with the government wanting construction to be started when the plans of the SOH were even completed, like building a road before you know it can take the weight of the car you are building it for. Of course, the foundation had to be reinforced to take into account the extra weight of the building. This is just one of the things that the government had the fingers in and it was the bureaucracy that drove the cost overruns in the first place, although poor Utzon took the brunt of that fury. The point I was trying to make is that any time the plans change drastically because of meddling, and there were in the case of the SOH, you get cost overruns. Take Apple's Cupertino HQ. It ran over budget by 2 billion dollars, mainly because of those issues, where Steve Jobs made many changes and wanted specific extravagant features in this building. So, the SOH isn't unique in that aspect but it does show clearly that good planning and management of such a project is key in completing it in a timely and as cost-effective manner as possible.
Utzon took with him his system plans for the glass cowering the restaurants between the shelves, so today they look like submerged submarines, with a lot of tubing and the glass had to be designed with a computer program. And also the built up roof for the scenes, so today the sound isn't right and his now missing design for for operating the scenes from a central tower, also made them smaller than necessary and not the original Grand Opera stages which was planned. But his plans for using the sea water for the air-condition was made as planned, as seen from a much later English film from in- and outside the building, made by one of the Top Gear guys.
@@AL-lh2ht It is! My wife and I visited the insectarium in 2004. So hopefully our money helped pay the thing off! Are you guys ever getting the Expos baseball team back?
You miss the biggest problem of all in building the Sydney opera house. Inexcusably, Utzon's shells could never be built as specified as they were not self-supporting! This was the biggest reason the NSW government got rid of him - they thought, maybe with some justification, that he was a dreamer who could not get his maths right. Eventually the consulting engineers thought up an ingenious solution involving hidden interior cables in tension - but even that was hard and time consuming to build. And it meant the concert hall had to be smaller than intended.
'Cost overrun' is always the best reason why ruling party and regime official love this type of project, because it is pay off with Taxpayers $$$$$$$$$, not their own $$. 👩💻👨💻
Why did take until 2003 to for Utzon to receive that prestigious award? What other architects structures won that award for the 30 years prior to 2003?
ভারতেও এই রকম প্রোজেক্ট করা হোক। যাতে ভারতবর্ষ আরো উন্নত হবে। অস্ট্রেলিয়ার খেলার স্টেডিয়ামের মত আধুনিক স্টেডিয়াম তৈরী করা হোক ভারতে। ভারতে রেলেও আরো উন্নতি করতে হবে। ভারতের রেলের বগিগুলিও আরো আধুনিক মানের করতে হবে।
The biggest laugh about the Sydney Opera house was a stunt by Architect students as an April fools day joke , Saying the Opera house was sinking and the government of the day contracted engineers to confirm or deny the issue.
New Zealand held the most wildly successful Commonwealth Games, universally called the happy games. The Soviets attacked New Zealand declaring they supported South African sports, even though they had cut off SA , three international sporting teams were in SA during the Taronto games which were not attended by dozens of countries. New Zealand scored many more medles. That is how the Soviets worked against the two best countries.
The US Interstate Military Highway system was proved by an Army Captain who tested the 1930 transcontinental road transport system, taking 40 days to take forty vehicles to Sanfrancisco from DC. As president, Eisenhower, made the best investment ever, from his experience.
Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station units 3 and 4 are 30 billion over budget and sliding “commercial availability” year to year with no end in sight burdening the rate payers mass overruns
I'd ban hosting the Olympics in my country. Waste of money. The Opera is adorable and it paid off. The dam, I hope it will stand string for centuries to come. The high-speed railway is a must. Olympic stadiums? Damn, Olympic Games gotta be banned or reorganized. Waste of resources that never pays back
11:32 is a train of the Swiss Federal Railways (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, CFF; Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere, FFS), the national railway company of Switzerland.
Having never been there, Where is the parking for opera house? Is it way off site? & everybody has to walk there? What about those who are walking impaired?
Sydney's Opera House has a unique and wonderful underground car park which is truly a marvel. Bennelong Point Parking Station, the Sydney Opera House car park, has just 7 metres of soil and rock between it and the surface of the gardens, built within a man-made sandstone cavern 42 metres into the Earth. It is a double helix concrete car park, sinking 12 storeys underground. It has become famous within the architectural and building world for its unique design as both a structure, and as a car park. Advantages of the double helix: Double helix design reduced footprint of 7,900 square metres to 2,950 square metres Gave parkers a shorter average travel distance to find a park Resulted in a shorter pedestrian tunnel Enabled the car park to have more efficient ventilation The last car parking space to be taken was now at the top, not in the bowels of the Earth Check out the remarkable design and various construction, design and usage details on: www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/why-is-the-sydney-opera-house-car-park-spiral-in-shape/9270864
Ask people of Stuttgart, Germany about the Stuttgart 21 project and how that's going! Or ask people in Berlin about that big airport that's still empty! Hope the Germans don't feel like I'm picking on them because I really miss living in Frankfurt!
I am shocked the Chunnel was never mentioned it was an absolute overrun disaster, the cost to use it, well, let put it this way it might be cheaper to feed the homeless!
Even building just 1 km of road is super expensive, which many people don't realize and you'd think a simple road on a flat land would be simple enough, but even those can go way over budget. We don't look at them as such, but roads are megastructures, in fact our largest megastructures.
5 cities that will change the map of the importance of Saudi cities globally 1. NEOM projects, most notably: The Line Project, OXAGON Project, TROJENA Project, the largest solar chips project in the world, green hydrogen facilities projects Which may be the project that will save the Europe from global warming And the Neom Airport project, which can be reached by 70% of the world’s population in just 8 hours, to be a pivotal area for flights, and to transform the Neom port into a global industrial, commercial and logistical center because it is located in the heart of the world, And one of NEOM's largest projects is the Amaala project, which will be next to the Red Sea Islands project, a milestone in health and wellness tourism in the sandy islands. ( NEOM is like the city of science fiction, it is the city of dreamers) 2. Major Riyadh projects such as: King Salman Park and Green Riyadh Project The Riyadh Art Project and the Sports Track Project And the Riyadh metro project The goal is to make Riyadh one of the best cities to live in the world, And the Qiddiya project is the largest entertainment city in the world by breaking records in a number of games, and the Diriyah project, the largest cultural city in the world, in which many sports were held, such as the Formula E competition, the World Cup for boxing, and King Abdullah Financial District Project: It will have the Saudi Stock Exchange and Capital Market Authority. The KAFD will be an important financial center in the Middle East. However, KAFD will not only be a financial center. It will have areas where people live, offices, and educational and recreational facilities. The King Abdullah Financial District is estimated to be worth about $7.8 billion (US). etc.. Very large festivals are held in Riyadh that will create entertainment, such as the Janadriyah Festival, which is the largest Arab cultural festival, the Riyadh Winter Festival, which is one of the largest festivals in the Middle East, and festivals specialized in Arab culture, such as the Umm Raqiba Festival In camel beauty, the Falcon Festival and the Arabs Festival for the beauty of the purebred Arabian horses, which is the largest 3. Projects of the archaeological city of Al-Ula, in which infrastructure is being built in all aspects of life, so that this archaeological city is one of the most important tourist cities for those looking for antiquities tourism while preserving its urban style, One of her most important projects is the Journey Through Time project,and the Al-Ula project aims to create a unique design to link ancient civilizations in the city of Al-Ula with Tram to be the largest living museum in the world and provide all the tourists need from exhibitions, art institutes, cultural academies, museums, cafes and restaurants And landscapes and distinctive services, so that the experience of the tourist in Al-Ula is a very rich experience in the cultural and service aspects, etc. that meet the needs of the tourist Project title (Discover The Journey Through Time Masterplan, AlUla, North West Arabia) An international airport was built in Al-Ula, a mirror theater was built, some beautiful hotels were built, hotel accommodation and restaurants are being expanded further, parks are built, tourist sites are developed, and cultural, agricultural and recreational festivals are developed to receive millions of tourists. Among its most important festivals: Winter at Tantora, Dates Festival, Citrus Fruits Festival, AlUla Arts Festival, and various sports festivals 4. The ambitious and giant projects of the city of Jeddah, which will make Jeddah one of the most important coastal cities in the world: Among its most important projects is the downtown Jeddah project, which is one of the largest projects in Saudi Arabia., and The Jeddah Tower skyscrapers project, part of which was purchased by the Public Investment Fund from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, The Jeddah Port development project, which will double to be a competitor to Dubai Port and will make it one of the most important cities in logistics, and A project to develop and rebuild slums to improve the quality of life for the people of Jeddah and pay attention to afforestation and pedestrian roads, and Jeddah Metro Project, and Obhur Al Janoubia Waterfront Development Project, and Obhur Bridge Project, which will connect the two banks of the Gulf together in Jeddah, and Lake Al-Arbaeen Park project located within the boundaries of the Historic Jeddah Development Program, and The project to develop the old city of Jeddah (Al-Balad), which is registered in UNESCO, to be a tourist attraction, and The Al Hamra Palace project in #Jeddah, which is one of several cultural and historical palaces that will be converted into hotel destinations, andThe marine taxi project is among the public transport projects that will change Jeddah, and Jeddah International Airport Development Project Jeddah is the most important economic, tourist and shopping city in Saudi Arabia It has the tallest fountain in the world, and the dome of Jeddah Super Dome in western Saudi Arabia, which ranks first as the largest dome without columns in the world, and the longest flagpole in the world, 5. Makkah Al-Mukarramah projects to improve the quality of life of its people, which move the holy city to the ranks of civilized and smart cities, and its most important projects are: The Makkah Path Project (King Abdulaziz Road), the Completion of the Ring Road 1,2,3,4, the Popular Neighborhoods Development Project, the Makkah Gate Project, and the Darb Al Mashaer Project in Makkah for crowd management in projects such as the seasonal housing project, Makkah Bus Project And the Food City Project, the Makkah Metro Project, the Emaar Makkah Project, and the National Park Project And many other projects The most important Saudi giant projects: the Red Sea Islands project, the Amala project, the Diriyah project, the Qiddiya project, the Al-Soudah company project, the King Abdulaziz Road project in Makkah, the downtown Jeddah project, the NEOM project, the King Abdullah Economic City project, the King Abdullah Financial Center project in Riyadh, Knowledge City Project in Madinah, Jeddah Airport Development Project
The shabby research on the Sydney Opera House part of this video turned me off watching any of it. Complete bollocks. Amateur stuff. Your time's better spent elsewhere.
Whoever drew that map of the rail line for the HS2 needs to actually look at the actual HS2 plan and not just haphazardly draw random lines. As for saying it will connect eight of the UK's largest cities did absolutely no research. Only London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds are cities, whilst Crewe and Warrington are towns, Marsden is a village and East Midlands Parkway is the name of the actual station that's literally in the middle of nowhere and serves a power station and a village. Literally Wikipedia has all the information you could need but nah just be ignorant Americans and make shit up in hopes nobody will find out.
I disagree... History has shown how vital such links are to "shrink" the distance and time to market for goods and people. For HS2 to make money they need to include cargo. They also must have a fourth phase to link Scotland and the NE to Ireland with the two links but ask the Irish Govt to contribute some of the costs of the system.
The Naysayers are those who fail to understand HS2 is simply the addition of two fast/express tracks to the WCML. The route is divergent because there is not sufficient room adjacent to the existing WCML. Also the route chosen utilises a significant portion of the former Grand Central Railway. The additional costs will be more difficult to recoop because bozo the borite village idiot cut the eastern leg with his 'failed' short term popularism popularist politics. Expect to see the eastern leg return with the next govt as England will be tory free zone for decades in government. LOL
Which of these megaprojects wasted money, and which didn't? What do you think?✍😄
Video idea:weirdest megaprojects.
The corruption in Canada's Olympics... Have a look at the South African costs for the world cup
The crappy railway one. Live in scotland(North of scotland)..that we help pay for(from our pocket money budget from westminster). Its only going to Birmingham....
King Abdullah Economic City, which is one of the largest projects in Saudi Arabia years ago, despite its beautiful idea, but the controversy over the feasibility of the project is whether it will succeed or not.
Have you ever heared of the Park called : Ankapark ? It has been wasted 801 milyon US $ . It is a huge discuss in Turkey right now . You should have a look .
The Sydney Opera House may have blown the budget, but it's still much loved, iconic and frequently used. Can't say the same for most bloated, impractical, single use Olympic facilities.
Yeah at least the opera house made its money back and more lol
Take a look at the Greek Olympic facilities … most are being torn down
@@type2523 I'd suppose Greece would desperately need the space. They bury people under the seabed after all.
1:32 is New Zealand’s flag not Australia’s smh
@@Shortshorts122 and look at the time stamp. And stop looking like a fool
@@Shortshorts122 RUclips commenters in a nutshell
Ah but there's so many Kiwis over here that we just want them to feel at home. 😜😂😂
Lol
Was going to point this out when I saw this. Like the channel - so won't infer they're this bad, but the worst example of geographic ignorance I've ever seen comes from a documentary called "The Imposter" years ago:
16 year old kid goes missing from his family home in Texas. 3 years later the police call the family to say they've located him in Spain.
Kid's older sister or aunt, whatever... Possibly both: "They found him in Spain?! Isn't that like the other side of the country?!". 🤣
Californias High Speed Railway-“ We are $35 billion over budget and 10 years late…..”
Britains High Speed Railway --“Hold my Guiness!”
China 😂
@Element it’s a state run project without federal support that is why it’s having issues.
@Element thats defenetly not true, 7000 km for 80bn would be a price of around 11 mio per km. No country has ever achieved something like that
@@Bot-ov2hs well if the Indian government violates enough human rights, oppress trade unions and cut corners in construction, it certainly is possible
@@sharwama992 there debt for HSR is literally in Trilions lol
Good old Australia, all our major projects are majorly over budget and late by a decade or few
Not all of them, the first phase of Sydney Metro was actually under budget and ahead of schedule when it opened in 2019
RAN's upcoming nuclear subs will follow the same fate.
Sounds like California to.
sounds like Germany...
it's like they said at 12:41, under-reporting the true costs is how a lot of these projects gain favour, and they never account for social aspects of the project, such as strikes, because "people are unpredictable, and so we shouldn't account for them at all" or whatever
As a swiss I always enjoy pointing at the two tunnels under the alps built by the end of last century: 17 billions spent, perfectly on time and almost on budget!
name of those tunnels please...
@@samluca1244 In German "Gotthard Basistunnel" and "Lötschberg Basistunnel", combined with the Ceneri tunnel to connect with Italy it's called the "Neue Alpentransversale NEAT"
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
.......'Now where are my glasses??'
@@prudencepineapple9448 HE MEANS NO ARM !
The Sydney Opera House is worth every cent !
Yep, sometimes you can just get lucky. 😁
The Sydney Opera House ended up in the black because it was funded from lottery revenue, not the taxpayer. There's two issues with the video though, the flag shown is the Flag of New Zealand, not the Flag of Australia. Secondly, the photo of the Commonwealth Parliament is irrelevant - the Opera House was built by the New South Wales Government.
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Sydney, Australia, would be nothing like what it is without the SOH. It is the only design that breathes, connects land to sea. Since the original completion, the lower walkway was built, as per Utzon's original design. It is a landmark location to view the quay and Harbour Bridge. It's a great spot. Nowhere to park, though ...
Isn't there an underground carpark for around 1000 vehicles right next door?
@@lyalld7852yep and completely hidden from Google Maps because it’s fully underground.
11:55 The railway going left.... You just crossed the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland before crossing it again to get in Scotland. That's physically impossible! No bridge or tunnel can ever be build over/under that sea due to its depth and the fact that tons of unused WWII bombs were dumped there after the War! Not to mention the political compilations.
This is common knowledge within the UK, and I highly doubt HS2's original plan had this in it.
But hey, I could be wrong. Please can someone provide the source of this impossible plan.
It is technically feasible to build a tunnel to Ireland. The real problems are the cost and lack of political will. In any case, that map is massively wrong. HS2 goes nowhere near Ireland, instead using the existing WCML to head north into Scotland. I have no idea how they messed up that badly.
the original plan didn't he's pulled this out of thin air. Not once have the plans for HS2 ever included Northern Ireland.
@@apangel100 one does wonder how you can get it so spectacularly wrong
@@MikeWillSee the B1M has just done a great video on the benefits of HS2 - this guy should watch it.
@@apangel100 funnily enough I was literally watching it when I saw your reply come through!
This was a great watch, thank you!
why does the narrator of this channel always pronounce foreign names and words so perfectly?
I think that the Al-Ula projects deserve to be filmed because it is the sleepy city rich in archaeological treasures, which the Al-Ula Development Authority seeks to be one of the most important ancient cities visited by tourists in the world
Among its most important projects is the establishment of an international airport + a journey through time + the development of archaeological sites + the construction of markets, hotels, hospitality services, etc..
i want to see more of this project 👍
California’s High Speed Rail project dwarfs the UK’s 😅
The thing is if you're building something as big as any of these projects, *there's no way you're not gonna go over the budget.*
It happens in all parts of the world. *Maybe not in China or Japan.*
Japan - budget overrun is a given as there is just so much corruption in the construction industry and involvement of organized crime syndicates.
There are two laws of large projects:
Law 1) They always take more time and money than you planned
Law 2) Law 1 stays true even if your plans took Law 1 into account ..
Has Utzon designed anything as noteworthy as the Sydney Opera house in his home country of Denmark or anywhere else?
1:31 are we not gonna talk about the flag being New Zealand’s and Not Australian?
Excellent episode. Thankyou.
That is a New Zealand flag.....NOT Australia !
Your pronunciation of Drapeau was very good! Très bien!
In my fictional world, all this project already finished and successful
SOH couldn't be built when it was designed and drove many world first innovations. Major cost blowouts were also caused by the Symphony Orchestra taking the larger Opera theatre for itself which forced the Opera into a cramped smaller theatre forcing a costly redesign mid construction. Tens of millions in cost overruns were also caused by political interference from a petty minded jealous conservative party sabotaging the project and withholding the architect Jorn Utzons fees which forced his office to close further delaying and costing the project more when the Government Architects office effectively stole the project. Despite this Utzons masterpiece was completed and is a building for 1000yrs - it has recouped its cost many times over. Its iconic and a major tourist draw.
The final shape of the shells significantly reduced the size of the auditoriums, the spherical sections curve in at the base, whereas the original undefined shape (see some of the early drawings and models) went almost vertical at the base. The original idea was to use thin shell roofs, Arup hired the world's foremost expert on thin shells, a thin shell solution was finally ruled impossible due to physics. The massively heavy, final, engineering design meant that they had to blast the original foundations to create far larger foundations - people noticed. Really, the shells didn't cost that much, stuffing them with an interior and all the associated plant was really expensive.
For anyone interested, the ribs are epoxied together, normal methods like mortar were too slow and imprecise, Arups had done epoxy bonding before but not on this scale. The shells had to keep exactly to the spherical shape to within a tolerance of a few millimeters, any errors could become cumulative. I very much doubt that any "normal" building has been built to this level of accurately either before or since (and no I do not class supercolliders or their ilk as normal buildings).
In essence, the project's main problems started with the government wanting construction to be started when the plans of the SOH were even completed, like building a road before you know it can take the weight of the car you are building it for. Of course, the foundation had to be reinforced to take into account the extra weight of the building. This is just one of the things that the government had the fingers in and it was the bureaucracy that drove the cost overruns in the first place, although poor Utzon took the brunt of that fury. The point I was trying to make is that any time the plans change drastically because of meddling, and there were in the case of the SOH, you get cost overruns. Take Apple's Cupertino HQ. It ran over budget by 2 billion dollars, mainly because of those issues, where Steve Jobs made many changes and wanted specific extravagant features in this building. So, the SOH isn't unique in that aspect but it does show clearly that good planning and management of such a project is key in completing it in a timely and as cost-effective manner as possible.
Utzon took with him his system plans for the glass cowering the restaurants between the shelves, so today they look like submerged submarines, with a lot of tubing and the glass had to be designed with a computer program. And also the built up roof for the scenes, so today the sound isn't right and his now missing design for for operating the scenes from a central tower, also made them smaller than necessary and not the original Grand Opera stages which was planned. But his plans for using the sea water for the air-condition was made as planned, as seen from a much later English film from in- and outside the building, made by one of the Top Gear guys.
great video
The dam slowed the rotation of the earth by 0.06 microseconds
Montreal's stadium is the worst of these. At least the rest had some economic benefit.
It’s stupidly beautiful though.
@@AL-lh2ht It is! My wife and I visited the insectarium in 2004. So hopefully our money helped pay the thing off! Are you guys ever getting the Expos baseball team back?
11:30 that's a train from the swiss railway company SBB 😆 Nice to see my country repented here, even if it's in the wrong context
Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Constructed in about 60 years, rebuilded several times, costs (in modern money) billions of dollars.
Hello ALL FROM FLORIDA.
Nice video thanks for sharing 🌎✌🏼
How many mega-projects have you heard, that came in UNDER budget?
Someone said that the swiss tunnel project to the Cocoa Forest did! So there is 1!
thank you for the information
Any Government would happily spend 100 million dollars for an iconic landmark like the Sydney Opera House.
You miss the biggest problem of all in building the Sydney opera house. Inexcusably, Utzon's shells could never be built as specified as they were not self-supporting! This was the biggest reason the NSW government got rid of him - they thought, maybe with some justification, that he was a dreamer who could not get his maths right. Eventually the consulting engineers thought up an ingenious solution involving hidden interior cables in tension - but even that was hard and time consuming to build. And it meant the concert hall had to be smaller than intended.
Awesome to watch.
Top Luxury needs to look into the California High Speed Rail
'Cost overrun' is always the best reason why ruling party and regime official love this type of project, because it is pay off with Taxpayers $$$$$$$$$, not their own $$. 👩💻👨💻
That’s how the government works. In addition to this these costs go back into the economy so they are far less bad then you would think.
Why did take until 2003 to for Utzon to receive that prestigious award?
What other architects structures won that award for the 30 years prior to 2003?
ভারতেও এই রকম প্রোজেক্ট করা হোক। যাতে ভারতবর্ষ আরো উন্নত হবে। অস্ট্রেলিয়ার খেলার স্টেডিয়ামের মত আধুনিক স্টেডিয়াম তৈরী করা হোক ভারতে। ভারতে রেলেও আরো উন্নতি করতে হবে। ভারতের রেলের বগিগুলিও আরো আধুনিক মানের করতে হবে।
It's a shame the architect was not allowed to finish the interior. Which resulted in horrible acoustics and a far less attractive space.
it's sad that Utzon never returned to Sidney.
1:32 um New Zealand flag
JWST from 1 Billion to 10 Billion .
As for HS2. they cut the route. And doubled the price.
The biggest laugh about the Sydney Opera house was a stunt by Architect students as an April fools day joke , Saying the Opera house was sinking and the government of the day contracted engineers to confirm or deny the issue.
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HS2 will shave a good 20 minutes off the time from London to Birmingham, so I think it’ll be worth it in the end
LOL There's the old British can-do spirit! Cheers!
@@inconnu4961 well actually it’s more like the old British ‘there’s fuck all we can do about it so we might as well take the piss’ spirit
The Montreal Stadium cost way more because the mob had its hands in the unions and trucking, and double and triple charged!
Sounds exactly whats happening to South Africa with Eskom, and a long list of corrupt politicians getting away with murder
New Zealand held the most wildly successful Commonwealth Games, universally called the happy games. The Soviets attacked New Zealand declaring they supported South African sports, even though they had cut off SA , three international sporting teams were in SA during the Taronto games which were not attended by dozens of countries. New Zealand scored many more medles. That is how the Soviets worked against the two best countries.
The US Interstate Military Highway system was proved by an Army Captain who tested the 1930 transcontinental road transport system, taking 40 days to take forty vehicles to Sanfrancisco from DC. As president, Eisenhower, made the best investment ever, from his experience.
what about CPEC and one belt one road ?
I can’t believe Australia spent 7 million dollars on the Sydney Opera House foundation, and 102 million on the rest!
They usually get their money’s worth eventually so I say go ahead with the train line.
Nice video.
Very interesting 😱
Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station units 3 and 4 are 30 billion over budget and sliding “commercial availability” year to year with no end in sight burdening the rate payers mass overruns
My favorite megaproject is the sydney opera house
I live in the UK I take the speedy train every year to London
I'd ban hosting the Olympics in my country. Waste of money. The Opera is adorable and it paid off. The dam, I hope it will stand string for centuries to come. The high-speed railway is a must. Olympic stadiums? Damn, Olympic Games gotta be banned or reorganized. Waste of resources that never pays back
YOU PUT THE NEW ZEALAND FLAG ON 1:31
11:32 is a train of the Swiss Federal Railways (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, CFF; Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere, FFS), the national railway company of Switzerland.
Having never been there,
Where is the parking for opera house?
Is it way off site? & everybody has to walk there?
What about those who are walking impaired?
Sydney's Opera House has a unique and wonderful underground car park which is truly a marvel.
Bennelong Point Parking Station, the Sydney Opera House car park, has just 7 metres of soil and rock between it and the surface of the gardens, built within a man-made sandstone cavern 42 metres into the Earth.
It is a double helix concrete car park, sinking 12 storeys underground.
It has become famous within the architectural and building world for its unique design as both a structure, and as a car park.
Advantages of the double helix:
Double helix design reduced footprint of 7,900 square metres to 2,950 square metres
Gave parkers a shorter average travel distance to find a park
Resulted in a shorter pedestrian tunnel
Enabled the car park to have more efficient ventilation
The last car parking space to be taken was now at the top, not in the bowels of the Earth
Check out the remarkable design and various construction, design and usage details on:
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/why-is-the-sydney-opera-house-car-park-spiral-in-shape/9270864
Ask people of Stuttgart, Germany about the Stuttgart 21 project and how that's going! Or ask people in Berlin about that big airport that's still empty! Hope the Germans don't feel like I'm picking on them because I really miss living in Frankfurt!
New Zealand flag for Australia …….. hmmm. Low quality
Germany BER Airport, Stuttgart 21 Main Station, Hamburg Elb Philharmonie,.... All of them Germany
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HS2 is mad. No wonder they're in a cost of living crisis
I am shocked the Chunnel was never mentioned it was an absolute overrun disaster, the cost to use it, well, let put it this way it might be cheaper to feed the homeless!
If the homeless got themselves sorted and got a job they could feed themselves.
If only the UK had a partnership with a nearby continent that made it easily to trade goods and services with… (sigh) C’est la vie.
The famous mega project
Did they really just use the NZ flag thinking it was Australia’s?
I feel like it’s cuz people underestimate the amount of money it involves to build mega structures.
Even building just 1 km of road is super expensive, which many people don't realize and you'd think a simple road on a flat land would be simple enough, but even those can go way over budget. We don't look at them as such, but roads are megastructures, in fact our largest megastructures.
Ottawa LRT boondoggle. look into that one
Good.
Ah yes the Swiss trains now also operate in the UK ... smh
Make videos about mega projects of Bangladesh
Uk high speed rail, should have given it to the Chinese, would have done it for less then half price and half the time
Considering that their buildings have a tendency to, well, _collapse,_ I would not bet my money on this 😉
@@mediocreman6323 And their bridges too! But atleast they are cheap enough you could build two for the same price! its a bargain!
Nice
1:32 New Zealand flag not Australian
Oil shock was 1973 . Oct of .
5 cities that will change the map of the importance of Saudi cities globally
1. NEOM projects, most notably: The Line Project, OXAGON Project, TROJENA Project, the largest solar chips project in the world, green hydrogen facilities projects Which may be the project that will save the Europe from global warming And the Neom Airport project, which can be reached by 70% of the world’s population in just 8 hours, to be a pivotal area for flights, and to transform the Neom port into a global industrial, commercial and logistical center because it is located in the heart of the world, And one of NEOM's largest projects is the Amaala project, which will be next to the Red Sea Islands project, a milestone in health and wellness tourism in the sandy islands.
( NEOM is like the city of science fiction, it is the city of dreamers)
2. Major Riyadh projects such as: King Salman Park and Green Riyadh Project
The Riyadh Art Project and the Sports Track Project And the Riyadh metro project The goal is to make Riyadh one of the best cities to live in the world, And the Qiddiya project is the largest entertainment city in the world by breaking records in a number of games, and the Diriyah project, the largest cultural city in the world, in which many sports were held, such as the Formula E competition, the World Cup for boxing, and King Abdullah Financial District Project: It will have the Saudi Stock Exchange and Capital Market Authority. The KAFD will be an important financial center in the Middle East. However, KAFD will not only be a financial center. It will have areas where people live, offices, and educational and recreational facilities. The King Abdullah Financial District is estimated to be worth about $7.8 billion (US). etc..
Very large festivals are held in Riyadh that will create entertainment, such as the Janadriyah Festival, which is the largest Arab cultural festival, the Riyadh Winter Festival, which is one of the largest festivals in the Middle East, and festivals specialized in Arab culture, such as the Umm Raqiba Festival
In camel beauty, the Falcon Festival and the Arabs Festival for the beauty of the purebred Arabian horses, which is the largest
3. Projects of the archaeological city of Al-Ula, in which infrastructure is being built in all aspects of life, so that this archaeological city is one of the most important tourist cities for those looking for antiquities tourism while preserving its urban style, One of her most important projects is the Journey Through Time project,and the Al-Ula project aims to create a unique design to link ancient civilizations in the city of Al-Ula with Tram to be the largest living museum in the world and provide all the tourists need from exhibitions, art institutes, cultural academies, museums, cafes and restaurants And landscapes and distinctive services, so that the experience of the tourist in Al-Ula is a very rich experience in the cultural and service aspects, etc. that meet the needs of the tourist
Project title (Discover The Journey Through Time Masterplan, AlUla, North West Arabia)
An international airport was built in Al-Ula, a mirror theater was built, some beautiful hotels were built, hotel accommodation and restaurants are being expanded further, parks are built, tourist sites are developed, and cultural, agricultural and recreational festivals are developed to receive millions of tourists.
Among its most important festivals: Winter at Tantora, Dates Festival, Citrus Fruits Festival, AlUla Arts Festival, and various sports festivals
4. The ambitious and giant projects of the city of Jeddah, which will make Jeddah one of the most important coastal cities in the world: Among its most important projects is the downtown Jeddah project, which is one of the largest projects in Saudi Arabia., and The Jeddah Tower skyscrapers project, part of which was purchased by the Public Investment Fund from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, The Jeddah Port development project, which will double to be a competitor to Dubai Port and will make it one of the most important cities in logistics, and A project to develop and rebuild slums to improve the quality of life for the people of Jeddah and pay attention to afforestation and pedestrian roads, and Jeddah Metro Project, and Obhur Al Janoubia Waterfront Development Project, and Obhur Bridge Project, which will connect the two banks of the Gulf together in Jeddah, and Lake Al-Arbaeen Park project located within the boundaries of the Historic Jeddah Development Program, and The project to develop the old city of Jeddah (Al-Balad), which is registered in UNESCO, to be a tourist attraction, and The Al Hamra Palace project in #Jeddah, which is one of several cultural and historical palaces that will be converted into hotel destinations, andThe marine taxi project is among the public transport projects that will change Jeddah, and Jeddah International Airport Development Project
Jeddah is the most important economic, tourist and shopping city in Saudi Arabia
It has the tallest fountain in the world, and the dome of Jeddah Super Dome in western Saudi Arabia, which ranks first as the largest dome without columns in the world, and the longest flagpole in the world,
5. Makkah Al-Mukarramah projects to improve the quality of life of its people, which move the holy city to the ranks of civilized and smart cities, and its most important projects are:
The Makkah Path Project (King Abdulaziz Road), the Completion of the Ring Road 1,2,3,4, the Popular Neighborhoods Development Project, the Makkah Gate Project, and the Darb Al Mashaer Project in Makkah for crowd management in projects such as the seasonal housing project, Makkah Bus Project
And the Food City Project, the Makkah Metro Project, the Emaar Makkah Project, and the National Park Project
And many other projects
The most important Saudi giant projects: the Red Sea Islands project, the Amala project, the Diriyah project, the Qiddiya project, the Al-Soudah company project, the King Abdulaziz Road project in Makkah, the downtown Jeddah project, the NEOM project, the King Abdullah Economic City project, the King Abdullah Financial Center project in Riyadh, Knowledge City Project in Madinah, Jeddah Airport Development Project
A lot of these projects are not going to work out as planned. In fact many will not be completed.
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When to overruns NOT happen in ANY construction project?
"The Empire State Building was built in one year and 45 days for over $10 million less than its $50 million budget."
@@u1zha that is partially because the Great Depression happened at the time so they either had to make due or end the project.
11:59 Glasgaoww
Sydney Opera House🇦🇺🇦🇺
The damn also caused the extinction of 2 fish
You should probably show the Australian flag instead of the NZ flag. The kiwis will get upset.
gotvand dam
Um by the way the Australian flag does not have red stars, that’s New Zealand 🇳🇿
15:14
California high speed rail. 10 billion and nothing to show so far
To many chiefs not enough Indians, plagues all big construction jobs!
@1:31 ... wrong flag FFS!!! That's a cousin/ally and great mates but NOT Australia FFS!
That's not how you say Glasgow.
Nobody cares! LOL
spend big money on bigger projects
The shabby research on the Sydney Opera House part of this video turned me off watching any of it. Complete bollocks. Amateur stuff. Your time's better spent elsewhere.
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Whoever drew that map of the rail line for the HS2 needs to actually look at the actual HS2 plan and not just haphazardly draw random lines. As for saying it will connect eight of the UK's largest cities did absolutely no research. Only London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds are cities, whilst Crewe and Warrington are towns, Marsden is a village and East Midlands Parkway is the name of the actual station that's literally in the middle of nowhere and serves a power station and a village. Literally Wikipedia has all the information you could need but nah just be ignorant Americans and make shit up in hopes nobody will find out.
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The Hs2 project is pretty much a mess and a waste of time and money.
I disagree... History has shown how vital such links are to "shrink" the distance and time to market for goods and people. For HS2 to make money they need to include cargo. They also must have a fourth phase to link Scotland and the NE to Ireland with the two links but ask the Irish Govt to contribute some of the costs of the system.
The Naysayers are those who fail to understand HS2 is simply the addition of two fast/express tracks to the WCML.
The route is divergent because there is not sufficient room adjacent to the existing WCML.
Also the route chosen utilises a significant portion of the former Grand Central Railway.
The additional costs will be more difficult to recoop because bozo the borite village idiot cut the eastern leg with his 'failed' short term popularism popularist politics. Expect to see the eastern leg return with the next govt as England will be tory free zone for decades in government. LOL
Idk a major fast moving train will help out immensely in the long run