My new favorite example of infrastructure cost disease: construction of the Eiffel Tower cost $40 million *in 2019 dollars*. (Also, it took 2 years and 2 months to build.)
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It's also 2x tall, but yes, even accounting for superlinear scaling law it's a lot.
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The Burj Khalifa cost 1.5b, which is less than I would have expectedhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/the-worlds-most-expensive-buildings/burj-khalifa/ …
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Hamburg Philharmonic cost 880 Million EUR, the tender was won at the price of 74 million euro. Construction took 11 years....
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