Some of these cant be real, lol, but they are still funny. Also a lot of those doorways to nowhere or stairways to nowhere would have led someplace at one time. In many cases the doorways get bricked over or the stairways are torn down only to leave the door just hanging there. The urinal one cracked me up though. I just imagine two dudes trying to take a piss there at the same time lol
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There’s no greater abomination to mankind and nature than Ryan Home developments.
The builder of our neighborhood must have been a shady character. While some things in the houses exceeded code and normal construction (like a redwood frame), some other things are really strange.
First of all, our neighborhood was outside the city when it was built 48 years ago. So the houses weren't on the city sewer system, they had septic tanks. That's common, but what wasn't common was that our bathtub didn't drain into a the septic tank. It didn't even drain into a pipe! It just drained straight into the dirt below the slab! So my dad had to tear out the wall and connect the drain with the drain pipe for the toilet and sinks. The 2nd big goof was that the main stress beam in the attic was two pieces. Instead of being one continuous beam along the spine of the roof, for some reason it was cut in half. This caused the roof to sag and we had a lot of (small) cracks in our ceiling because of it. So my dad had to tear off the roof above the beam so he could get a 2nd piece through the roof to brace it. This was 16 years ago this month actually. It's fine now, my parents had it inspected after it was done and it passed perfectly afterward. Also our house never had a backdoor. The only way into the backyard was through a door out of the kitchen into the carport. From there you turned left and went through a gate into the yard. So later my folks replaced a double window in the kitchen with a sliding glass door. The 60s were also popular for not having any kind of ceiling lights. So our living room never had a light on the ceiling. Naturally we fixed that with a ceiling fan. I swear, with all the things my parents did to the house, the builder probably wouldn't recognize the place. And most of the houses on our street are the same way. Almost every one of them has had some major modifications/additions.
I went to a local new home show here in Indiana a few years ago. All of the houses had attached garages that opened into the laundry or the kitchen like most new suburban houses do. Except for one two story house, it was connected to a laundry room with a half bath.
So if you entered the house from the garage, the first thing you saw was the toilet. The show homes were on a cul-de-sac and this very house was the house you saw in front of you when you drive down the street. So if the garage door was open and the door from the garage to the house was open you could see the toilet clear as day from the whole street! Image sitting there doing your business and someone else comes home and opens the doors!
There's a 400+ foot tall residential high rise in South Padre Island, Texas that is under construction (or was). The building is leaning slightly, you can't tell with the naked eye, but it's bad enough that cracks are forming at the base and construction had to stop so engineers could evaluate it. Well, with the downturn in the economy, they stopped construction indefinitely and the developer is refunding people their money on their units. Not sure if it'll be fixed or end up being demolished. It sucks, because it would have been 2nd tallest building, about 470 feet tall.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
KevinFromTexas, as mentioned in the first sentence of the thread
the photos are from a site called Miragestudio7.
Cartagena: Torre La Escollera, which was to have been Colombia’s tallest building, will not now be completed. The decision was taken by ActionCol S.A. - the building’s owner - after floors 28 to 40 were damaged as the result of a storm that hit the city last week. The building’s developer had planned to rebuild the damaged floors but the structure was deemed too unstable, resulting in the removal of the beams.
Originally to have been 208 metres tall with 58 floors, doubts had for months been expressed by Colombian construction experts about the structural stability of the tower’s slender profile.
The developer is now planning to build a tower that will have between 15 to 20 floors.
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