Archinect - News 2024-11-24T16:09:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149362109/starchitect-designed-public-projects-are-often-long-delayed-and-way-over-budget Starchitect-Designed Public Projects Are Often Long Delayed and Way Over Budget Alyssa Alimurung 2016-03-01T17:15:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ve/veak0kxdsg8vd9fo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Last week Port Authority decided not to hold an opening ceremony for Santiago Calatrava&rsquo;s World Trade Center Transportation Hub (followed by their sudden flip flop), citing the fact that it was six years delayed and that final construction costs came in around $4 billion in taxpayer dollars, twice what was projected. But it&rsquo;s hardly the only public project to face delays and skyrocketing costs. In fact, it&rsquo;s not even close to being the worst of the lot that are draining tax payer dollars.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>