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Santiago Calatrava's Gare de Mons Station Opens in Belgium
- zeristor 10mo agoScope creep to orbit: “Budget escalation: The initial budget was €37 million, but the final cost has grown to around €480 million.” Astounding though it is it sounds like it may have been stone souped.
- wiz21c 10mo agoBelgium is not exactly low on corruption... One hundred kilometers from there, there is this station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge-Guillemins_railway_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge-Guillemins_railway_... by the same architect, and budget exploded as well... So either local governments or Calatrava is messing around :-/