The architecture and engineering teams fought to keep up. As the terminal ballooned from 200,000 to 340,000 square meters (dwarfing Frankfurt’s 240,000 and just shy of Heathrow Terminal 5’s 353,000), they parceled out the work to seven contractors. That soon grew to 35, and they brought in hundreds of subcontractors, says Delius. [...]
At the very moment Merkel and her allies are hectoring the Greeks about their profligacy, the airport’s cost, borne by taxpayers, has tripled to €5.4 billion.
— bloomberg.com
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I would love to read Van Gerken's tell-all book if anyone can find an english version of it.
well, just goes to show you don't need an iconic design or petulant starchitect for a large, politically-motivated infrastructure project to go all wrong.
the part where the chief PM proposed using 800 hired 'smoke observers' with cell phones in place of a functioning alarm system was amusing.
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