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[shitepipe]

Yea it's a bit of a perfect storm. Huge demand due to Covid stimulus funds/personal savings, changes to supply chains due to Brexit, general shipping delays, huge shortages in plastics due to fires in Russia and power outages in Texas, shortages in labour supply due to Covid (and also the legacy of the crash here). It's a clusterfuck.

And for building contractors in the middle of a job based on a fixed price, they will try to reclaim every penny by making all sorts of claims against the client so you end up with massive legal challenges. It ain't pretty...

 

[Cormcolash]

The Finnish Olkilouto nuclear plant on this list is gas.
Still unfinished, the completed project could cost 11 billion but the tender contract says the building contractors have to absorb all costs over €3 billion

Haha that's amazin, guess the building contractors are just some state firm anyway then ha.
Also they've 'solved the problem' of nuclear waste with that power plant by burying it in a massively deep mine

Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nuke terrorist]

I remember seeing TV footage a site for deep burial of nuke waste in Sweden back in the 1980's.
ah sure it'll be OK - Homer Simpson won't be in charge of it.

 

[Cormcolash]

THE BEE BIT MY BOTTOM NOW MY BOTTOM'S BIG!!

 

[ann post]

I was digging for a floorplan for here and it brought me back to the source.. greatest hits of urban sprawl 80's edition with 66 images. posted from the lounge in #8

The Irish Bungalow Book | Archiseek - Irish Architecture

Bungalow Bliss by Jack Fitzsimons was the best-known book, but there were other planbooks in Ireland during the 1970s. The Irish Bungalow Book by Ted McCarthy, and published by Mercier Press, Cork, circa 1979 displays a good selection of the standard Irish house designs from the period...

www.archiseek.com

 

[therealjohnny]

Behind the green door: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and Stores | theLONDON i

In the madness that is the current rebuilding of Tottenham Court Road station as part of the Crossrail development, there is one small oasis of calm. Tucked in...

thelondoni.com

 

[ann post]

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[therealjohnny]

Fantastic

Spoiler

Ireland's is the tower at Glendalough

 

[ann post]

The Ethiopain was carved from the ground down with no additional materials.

The new zealand one has a vw beetle with two fronts.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Belgium one, Leuven Town Hall, is one of the most over-engineered eyesores I've ever witnessed in real life. It gives you a headache just being in the square.

 

[ann post]

The abandoned half-built mansion in Sussex that's bigger than Buckingham Palace

Development began in 1985 and has still not yet been completed

www.sussexlive.co.uk

 

[ann post]

The Belgium one, Leuven Town Hall, is one of the most over-engineered eyesores I've ever witnessed in real life. It gives you a headache just being in the square.

Sorta like the beer

 

[Unicron]

The abandoned half-built mansion in Sussex that's bigger than Buckingham Palace

Development began in 1985 and has still not yet been completed

www.sussexlive.co.uk

When we were in England last week we visited Blenheim Palace, monstrously large gaff.

It was built by some ancestor of Churchill because he led * 50somethingodd thousand poor English pricks into battle against 50somethingodd thousand poor French pricks and 36,000 of the French were killed so Queen Ann gave him the land and money to build it as a reward.

That wasn't how the tour framed it, but that's how I took it.

* stood at the back probably

 

[ann post]

When we were in England last week we visited Blenheim Palace, monstrously large gaff.

It was built by some ancestor of Churchill because he led * 50somethingodd thousand poor English pricks into battle against 50somethingodd thousand poor French pricks and 36,000 of the French were killed so Queen Ann gave him the land and money to build it as a reward.

That wasn't how the tour framed it, but that's how I took it.

* stood at the back probably

Jesus what did churchill event want a country for with that gaff. You could have a war inside it

 

[Unicron]

Jesus what did churchill event want a country for with that gaff. You could have a war inside it

I was simultaneously horrified by the opulence and the back story to it, but really interested in the history of the place.*

In the late 1800's the estate was running out of money so the then Duke married an American railroad heiress, one of the Vanderbilts, she came with a dowry of $80 million. Which was a lot of money back then.

* See also my visit to the Pitt Rivers museum of archaeology and anthropology in Oxford, AKA a 3 story high room of stolen things from around the world. It's a good thing it was 3 stories high because otherwise they couldn't have been able to fit the GIANT totem pole that used to belong to first nations people in Canada in there.

 

[ernesto]

I was simultaneously horrified by the opulence and the back story to it, but really interested in the history of the place.*

In the late 1800's the estate was running out of money so the then Duke married an American railroad heiress, one of the Vanderbilts, she came with a dowry of $80 million. Which was a lot of money back then.

* See also my visit to the Pitt Rivers museum of archaeology and anthropology in Oxford, AKA a 3 story high room of stolen things from around the world. It's a good thing it was 3 stories high because otherwise they couldn't have been able to fit the GIANT totem pole that used to belong to first nations people in Canada in there.

jeeeeesus nice of them to store other peoples shit there

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

In the late 1800's the estate was running out of money so the then Duke married an American railroad heiress, one of the Vanderbilts, she came with a dowry of $80 million. Which was a lot of money back then.

Was it Downton Abbey?

 

[Unicron]

Was it Downton Abbey?

Apparently it was part of the inspiration for the programme

 

[Cormcolash]

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Hey, I'VE BEEN TO SOME OF THOSE PLACES!!

 

[ann post]

OP can get fucked, I'm posting off topic.

All I can see is the amount of crap to trip and injure yourself on during a simple trip upstairs to the jacks.

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