The city was initially prepared to contribute €77 million to the project – but this figure has since gone up by nearly five times to more than €323 million – more than half the expected €600 million total cost. And the original completion date of 2010 has been pushed back to 2014.
The building’s designers had underestimated certain costs – such as an acoustic panelling for the main concert hall which cost five times as much as expected, adding more than €10 million to the bill.
— thelocal.de
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Materials price always in flux - what the hell do those people expect architects to control market prices? Sorry that's not in the job description. Not sure why the architects didn't tell the client up front they don't control the market. Nor are they magicians who control fire. I really don't get why people don't understand that architecture is NOT conceived in a perfect controlled little world - no we just live in the world and its forces (wind, fire, consumer markets, weather).
Really? Compassion for the out of control scope creep yes, but $77m to $323m this is not within the realm of reasonable...material price, no...this is a bit beyond commodity fluxuation. HdM needs to outline their side of the story, but I suspect their 'agenda' was the culprit.
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