NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: In what will surely go down in history as one the greatest architectural blunders, the town of Benidorm in Alicante, Spain, had almost completed its 47-story skyscraper when it realized it excluded plans for elevator shafts.
Despite its name, the InTempo skyscraper was, seemingly rushed through the blueprint process, and its attempted message of prosperity through the country’s economic tumult has become one that is more fitting to the current state of things in Spain as a whole.
As El País headlines, “InTempo, an incompetence of high stature,” the construction of the massive building has been plagued with problems beyond the oversight of being inaccessible. The construction was initially funded by the bank Caixa Galicia, but as of December 2012, financing for the project was taken over by Sareb, which is “known as the bad bank” in Spain… (more)
EDITOR: This was simply run-away corruption.
