A Skyscraper in Mandaluyong city Philippines is over 340 m is planned to be completed in 1990's but it's cancelled due to complaining of the residents because is will damage the water supply and will block the sunlight today it called the big hole near the ORTIGAS Interchange were the EDSA REVOLUTION in 1986 from death of Ninoy Aquino Sr assassinated at the airport of Ninoy Aquino international airport aka Manila International Airport
It does sound like a good idea, green place in middle of city with great view over river, only problem is that it got way too expensive, and yes it is not really a megaproject.
It was a terrible idea. Unlike alot of other large cities, London has plenty of green spaces (parks, gardens, open squares etc). It did not need a stupid thing like a 'Garden bridge'. Londoners were against the idea as soon as they found out that they would have to pay to go on it, and cycles would be banned. So in essence it was not really a bridge in the usual sense as bridges across the Thames are free and open all the time. The garden bridge was billed as a paying tourist attraction - one where bicycles were banned, and it was not open after dark. Both local authorities either side of the river (Westminster, and Lambeth) were also against the idea. So in the end the whole project was torpedoed......much to the delight of Londoners. Yet millions had already been spent on it before a brick had even been laid. A folly if ever there was. Taxpayers money had already been spent on it despite it not bring given the green light to go ahead with its building.
@@JBBrickman No, by and large we voted Remain. We just see through unnecessarily 'grandiose' schemes that pretend to something they're clearly not. A bridge is a bridge...... unless it's the 'garden bridge', then it isn't a bridge at all, but a paying tourist attraction that's masquerading as a bridge because it spans the river and looks like a bridge. It's outrageous for a design of a bridge which forbids bicycles and asks you for money in order to cross it. This isn't a 'toll' bridge it was intended to be a tourist attraction. Local Authorities on both sides of the river weren't keen on it anyway, and without either's backing, the scheme had no chance. It was a non starter. Another scheme that Londoners rejected was the fabled phallic 'tulip' tower that was proposed for the City of London (in the financial district). It had no purpose other than as a tourist viewing platform. We have three such attractions already - London Eye, The Shard, and the Emirates Cable Car. We don't need a fourth such attraction. Londoners want money where it's ACTUALLY needed - improving the roads, council services, and since the Covid pandemic, more money for social care, mental health etc. This isn't the time to propose grandiose tourist attractions. Londoners know this which is why they voted both projects down. And I'm glad I and they did.
In Czechia there's a highway called D1. Its construction started 50 years ago, every year it costs hundreds of millions of dollars, it's not yet finished and it's constantly being repaired probably even more than it is being constructed.
The SuperConducting Super Collider around Waxahachie, Texas. It was started, Government Funding was halted in 1993. It was supposed to be the biggest science experiment in the world.
I shudder and squirm here in my ground floor apartment just knowing there's people out there who actually choose to climb up to such great heights in or on buildings, and/or cranes... My Acrophobia is already in revolt just at the thought of it!
Padideh Shandiz complex was a multipurpose project designed and started the construction in Mashhad, Iran. It was supposed to have a five star hotel tower, more than 1M sqm2 shopping mall and …. However, after a couple of years, the construction company became under investigation for fraud
while I understand wanting to have the tallest building in your country/state/city, I also don't get it because you could reinvest that money to have a nicer looking building as well that could draw more attention but who knows, I don't know econmics
@@corruptedplayer they have plenty of places they can and do dig. We have a small plant nursery with plenty of garden areas already. The spot was in the middle of the only small patch of leveled grass I created for the kids to play on. So their hole didn't come with any planning permits. hahaha
@@darrellturner560 Bro I hate to tell you this, But Biden has been over-riding property owner rights and allowing unlincesed hole digging by dogs and illegal aliens. becareful or you could end up in jail
The London Garden Bridge takes the cake for "most environmentally friendly" project fail, because no concrete was ever poured, though reportedly a few Maseratis for architects and consultants were earned and blur the picture somewhat...
What's most amazing is that out of the initial estimated total cost of $85MM, they managed to spend $60MM ... without ever putting a shovel into the ground.
@Aussie Pom She is probably not worth more than 20 million maximum. Why donate if there is the prospect of other more wealthy people and companies doing so ?
So the Contractors got the Money to build it but ended up getting to just Pocket the Cash when the Project was Cancelled. Those Contractor Company Owners are therefor Filthy Rich without raising a Finger.
@@davedruid7427 bc a contract was signed; they'd done a lot of 'gearing up' and were rightly 'owed' what was due, due to the project being canned by the other side?
Just watched three of these mega project clips.. Extremely interesting and EXCELLENT to listen to somebody who actually knows what he is talking about and can speak quite well..
The Katar project seems to be the only one, that maybe makes sense in terms of "makes peoples daily life easier". The other projects just push someones egos further.
well, the NK hotel was part of an ideological programme based on the premise that North Korea would be the envy of the world, and all foreigners would want to see the Promised Land with their own eyes.
@@gram. Then why don't you finance it yourself? I'd never finance it, even if I had the money to do so. Society is moving away from the idea of tall buildings full of offices.
They should add the "high-speed train" project in Amman, Jordan. Initially planned to be a trainline, then a dedicated bus lane, now its no more than a walking path in the middle of the busiest road in the capital.
In the early 1900's there was a Dutch plan to completely dry up the Zuiderzee (southern sea). About 1/3 was eventually turned in to land. I think one of the main reasons not to finish it completely was the impact on the environment. Still it enlarged our tiny country quite a bit.
I´m from Brazil and there is a project that is still abandoned, the Acaquarium, located in the city of Fortaleza and was to be the 3rd largest aquarium in the world
Was the most pointless thing, stupid Boris Johnson was leading this so what do you expect! London is not a bright sunny location for the garden to thrive and all the yobs will vandalise it constantly. It's a bridge NOBODY wanted in London. Waste of tax payers money!
No mention of Bunter Johnson in this vanity project disaster. He really did like saying 'yes' to blonde women. His hero Churchill also screwed up bigly in sending many thousands to needless deaths at Gallipoli. In Johnson's case, it was only money, the taxpayer's money. And I suspect he got nowhere with Ms Lumley, unlike his pole-dancing friend.
that one is just amazing i"d love if someone bought up the entire thing, turned it into a hotel for groups of people each renting a villa, and damned the waterflows to fill the valley next to it
With that first one, in China, being so close to completion, it's hard to imagine why the government didn't either take it over themselves, or find another contractor to finish it. Especially 700 units already having been sold. There are so many empty buildings over there, both completed, or close to it, it's crazy. Certainly when you consider how many of it's citizens live in tiny, ageing shanty towns, often with no proper plumbing.
Even if a building looks nearly finished on the exterior facade, there's still an enormous amount of work left to finish the inside of it. But, I agree in principle, because the idea of unfinished iconic buildings can be detrimental to the public. Then again, the cost to run these extremely tall buildings is also extreme. So, even if you use public funds to complete the building, you now need an entirely new plan for how to pay for the exorbitant operating costs... knowing that you may not turn a profit for decades, if ever. So, if the government just lets the unfinished buildings stand, at least until a private investor is willing to take on those risks... at least no one is throwing good money after bad, for the time being.
It seems to my that giving homeless a space they can live in, excluded from society, without a job, and most certainly in poor conditions isn't such a great idea when you actually think of it. In the sense that you're not giving them a real solution to escape from their situation.
@@DrWhom haha I was just going to post that! At least they got something out of it, I guess. As a bonus, they can toss your corpse in it after you get gunned down in one of Chicago's infamous nightly killing sprees.
I wish someone would build a small city where the transportation routes were theme park rides. Taking a rollercoaster bus to work would be so much more fun
Cape Town has a unfinished Freeway Bridge that has been standing ending in midair since 1977. There are a number of urban legends about its state. One involves a shopkeeper who refused to sell his property.
Superconducting Super Collider, to be 87.1 km in diameter. The SPEAR ring was being completed and scientists, designers, and contractors were at first concerened at Texas for a location but astounded when the University of Texas would be directing and designing the project. Many Universities have proposed and have run experiments at Stanford's SLAC facility. One from the University of Tokyo was finishing up at the SSRL portion of the facility at the time. Asking around, no one remembered anything from Texas and it was unknown if the new Director (Roy Schwitters) had even toured the facilities. They did buy land, dig, and get in all the concrete (Texas has many good contractors for excavations, re-bar work, and concrete). Then everything faltered. Money was being burned up as people seemed to be learning scratch as they went along, seeming not even curious about the two rings in California. The Government Oversite group seemed unimpressed as there seemed little accounting and not much of a developed plan for having completed and installed hardware. You know, that syncrotron ring bit to be housed inside the hollow underground concrete donut they built. Plug got pulled.
It is probably mentioned in the comments below, but The Chicago Spire never became more than a hole in the ground. If finished, was planned to be 610m tall.
The question we're all left with is, what the hell does one do with an abandoned skyscraper? Just wait until it falls down under it's own weight & sell the pieces for scrap?
It depends on structural sustainability I suppose, if it can stay suspended like that for years when someone comes and takes over, it can still be completed, but some might deteriorate too much and only way is to scrap it, but it cost a ton to do that too, so they just hang there.
@@privatechannel1059 That's not really true. The problems happen when what will be interior spaces remain open to the elements. You don't need to weather-proof concrete if it's going be get enclosed and climate-controlled. But, if the outside of a building never gets built, those interior spaces will eventually start to degrade...even though they were properly built.
@@DonGivani Even Berlin isn't sure about that "need". I mean they CLOSED an airport and didn't finish the new one for years. Notheless the city managed just fine.
@@peterpan4038 I know, but it is good for Berlin to look in the future. Tegel is not up with todays standards. And let us not even start with 2008 closed Tempelhof.
The bridge wasn't actually that expensive, but the legal costs and costs of fighting development, not to mention the cost of revisions, as well as all of the other administrative hoops and delays added close to $100m to the development. If it had been approved in it's entirety, the bridge could have been built for $85m.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in NY City, remains unfinished, and will likely never be finished. (Then again, cathedrals have traditionally taken centuries to build, so . . . maybe it's right on schedule.)
The Stephansdom catedral in Vienna was scheduled to have two identical towers. It is about 443 years behind project. Some cathedrals are just meant to be finished
Absolutely not, why???? It's maybe the most visited place in Barcelona (and in spain). The icon of the city, and still under construction with his own funds, raised by the tourism. You know that nearly every cathédral in Europe take between ~50 to ~200 years to be completed?
Quebec city has a whole highway that ends straight into a mountain wall. They were supposed to build a tunnel but didn't. For years a they did was put huge concrete blocks and a few warning signs. But still, some confused or drunk drivers managed to crash into the wall at the end point. Its still there. Slowly crumbling and looking VERY dumb. Its right under old Quebec when coming in from the Laurentians park (North).
@@samon53 I Will try to find some and get Back to you. I just moved back to the city 2 days ago and I think they finally took it down. It had been there since the 80s or early 90s.
In America, we don't have enough money to pay our debt. So we have zero megaprojects, although we have the highest Covid death rate in the world. By far!
As an Atlanta native, the entire metro Atlanta highway system has got to be the largest unfinished/work-in-progress project by square miles 😂 always under construction but never complete.
In Germany it's for sure the BER, it should be the new airport in Berlin but has so many flaws even after years that I don't even knoe if they will finish it.
Shortly, you’ll be able to add the high speed rail project in California to your list. I doubt that project will ever be finished even after they spend billions of dollars on it.
@Britt Fussel: I just left a similar comment. Every time I drive by that high speed joke to nowhere, I just shake my head and think about all of the useful (and much needed) things they could be putting all of that wasted money toward instead. Power plants and desalination plants are the first things that come to mind.
Materials,placement,workers,lots of paperwork that you have to pay for, the The cranes and other machinery,and probably have to pay some people because they can’t get three and do there job.
Also the supports for the bridge itself have to be drilled into the bedrock of the river, which means major disruption on the river for a great many months.
How about our wall, fence, whatever at our southern US border. We really need Pres. Trump back so we can get that finished. I know, the drug dealers and human trafficers won't like it.
@@cynthiacole6140 Not one iota. The difference between the two is startling. I will take Pres. Trump over the squatter in the White House any time. Pres. Trump put America and Americans first. China Joe sold out long ago. Hiden Biden is encouraging illegal aliens to come into the country. We have a legal immigration system. I know. My wife is from Canada. CCCP Joe is twisting what's left of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He wants communion while supporting abortion. He supports killing unborn babies while fighting to keep murderers from being executed. They were forcing us to wear masks. What about our choice and our bodies when it comes to getting vaccinated? Do you see the blatant hypocrisy? I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. My goodness, open your eyes and see what is happening. One city (Evanston, IL) was allowing Juneteenth celebrations but not Independence Day celebrations. Near my hometown is Silverton, CO. The mayor made it illegal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the National Anthem. Is this what you really want for America? Travel to North Korea like I have and see how well their country works. Open your eyes. You may not have liked Pres. Trump as a person, but his policies were working. Look at the price of gas since China Joe took over. Seriously, you can't be that blind. Go look in the Bible at 2 Corinthians 4:4 and see what it says. I will pray for you.
@@Colorado_Native I hate raining on your parade, but the drug dealers don't have any problems smuggling drugs in, wall or not, most of them are shipped in now, in containers into your biggest ports, and as for the people smugglers, they don't care either way, they get paid just for helping the poor unfortunates in to a location to try and make it over any wall there may be.
Maybe bigger : not used cities because real estate is too expensive, like Tianducheng in China, Kilamba in Angola or still Kang Bashi in China. Those projects of city have cost billions and aren't used...
@@reverendbStaard it's incredibly annoying. Dust everywhere and constant noise. Meanwhile every year they announce delays and that it got more expensive than planned.
Jokes aside, I can't recollect projects this big that are still unfinished nowadays here in Italy. We have more of (relatively) smaller projects scattered across the country. Honorable mention: the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway that took something like 20 years to fully open and an additional 20 years to be modernized. But still I can't think of anything as massive as those listed in the video, so plz help me
I've got this backyard raised bed garden project that may not complete within my lifetime. It includes a walking tunnel from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachussetts. Let me know if you want in on this exciting project.
That London Bridge is one of a long string of projects caught in a decentralisation dispute, giving very little public funds to London. The City lacks a concert hall with cedible acoustics (I've performed in them all), and spent about the same on the Festival Hall and Museum of London projects for the LSO - Sir Simon Rattle eventually tired of the lies and left.
Y vasca, the never ending high speed rail of basque country, with almost 35 years of delay and 4,5 billion euros alredy spent should be in this list, as a shameless project wich will cost around 6,5 b euro
But Messina bridge, as you call it, has never been built. We have only the project, and we’re stilli paying it however…😢 In Italy we call it “Ponte sullo Stretto” where Stretto is the channel between Messina and Reggio Calabria.
@@mafalda0250 Negli anni ci abbiamo già buttato dei soldi. E avevano già cominciato la costruzione, per poi interromperla. Ci sono già delle fondamenta dei piloni, tratte di ferrovie e cantieri fermi. Quindi a tutti gli effetti è un progetto abbandonato.
