This Is Awkward

Having seen how buildings are constructed in that part of the world, I wouldn't go up it even if it did have an elevator!

Closer to home I recall that the university of waterloo's library built in the 70s designers forgot to take into account the weight of the library books and thus the place was very roomy.

I once lived in a four story walk-up in Winnipeg.These lucky fitness freaks have the chance to live in a 47 story walk-up.

Great metaphor for the entire EU, but especially Spain.

I recall reading about a six story apt. building in the US that when they fired up the boilers to heat it, it was discovered the chimneys ended on the third floor........

Who cares about the elevator, that is one ugly arsed building.

There were some "changes" written into the design of this building... and all the architects resigned upon discovery of said omission.
It's a wonder this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. In the second to last tower we built here in Calgary, (during 2010) there was a revolving door of staff in the mechanical subcontractor's sector. Twice in a year, a third of the 33 plumbers / pipefitters at the site were fired/quit during heated discussions in the lunch rooms. Those that remained have kept in touch at other building sites here, we're not that large of a group and those that cause trouble are well known.

And then there's sort of thing, which I make no attempt to explain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pQdjwliLMA

The Dubai train of poop trucks.

I'v dealt with a crap load of "engineers", nuff said:-)))

Remember! A camel is nothing but a horse designed by a corps of engineers.

They date the fall of empires by the decline of its construction. Nuff said.

I am so glad that Chris got bankrolled way back when the King & Queen of Spain had smarter engineers. I guess forgetting a elevator doesn't have the same cache as sailing off the ends of the earth.

Too many Social Science Bureaucrats and not enough engineers.

I remember reading, sometime during the Soviet era, that a rather large apartment block was built in some unfortunate Communist jurisdiction. It was hailed as an excellent example of workers' housing as built by the state. That is, until it was discovered the architect failed to include elevators in its construction.
At that time, accommodation was granted to those who curried favour with the local commissars. In this case, the architect responsible was assigned a nice new apartment in the building - on the top floor.
Not sure how they'll sort this one out, though.

I would imagine that a 47-story skyscraper would be subjected to series of reviews by outside engineering firms before construction began. It's not just the architects who screwed up.

This got me thinking about the alternative -- what if the building next door to this one is designed to be 47 storeys tall but then gets built to only 20? Would it have 27 storeys worth of elevator sticking out into the sky?

47 stories wouldn't scrape the sky's foot fungus. We've got taller parking garages.

Maybe they'll get lucky and some Muzzie will fly a plane into it.