Archive : Mega Structures

Here’s a little science factoid that might bake your noodle for a moment: It has been one year since the planet Neptune was first discovered. Specifically, although the distant icy world was initially spied in the night sky back in 1846, it has taken 164.8 years for it to complete one solar year, which is a full orbit of the sun. And to commemorate June 12’s landmark achievement, NASA has released [...]

In china, Ark Hotel is recently constructed. This video is made via still camera installed in front of Ark Hotel, in a nearby building. The time lapse recorded for the construction of infrastructure was 2 days. See the video below

A shimmering new skyscraper in Abu Dhabi claims to be the “World’s Furthest Leaning Manmade Tower.” Lets look at some other structures also living on the edge. #1 Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy The Leaning Tower was supposed to stand straight and plumb, an imperious monument to the trading power of 12th century Pisa. Built on soft clay, however, the tower began to list only a few years [...]

The fact today is that the longest large tunnels in the world is constructed for water distribution, followed by tunnels for railways and metro. The top 10 of all of the tunnels are below with longest to come at the end, starting from number 10. 10- Tochomae - Shiodome - Hikarigaoka (Toei Oedo Line) Location Tokyo, Japan Length (feet) 40,700m Type Metro Year 2000 (started in 1991) Details -NA- 9- [...]

Taller buildings to mud houses, every person is living in some constructed place for survival against the environment and off course for a shelter. From small homes to farm houses, and from streets to main roads, we have collected the list of top 10 widest buildings and constructions from round the world, starting it from number 10. 10- Marina Bay Sands Name Marina Bay Sands Location Singapore Floor [...]

Runways of airport might not be of interest, but they are considered mega structures in construction. Collecting information about longest runways of airports of different countries of the world, here is the top 10 list of Longest runways of world starting from 10. 10- N’djili Airport Airport name N’djili Airport Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Length (meters) 4.700 Length [...]

Bridges have been state of art for road construction, shortening the ground distances, bridges have always played role in meeting up the inaccessible sites via ground. The inaccessibility of most sites via ground is mainly due to deep, hollow naturally created long spaces, we have collected some of the top highest bridges from the world, that are ranked on the basis of their height from the ground [...]

World is a barren land without construction work, in fact life would be baseless, meaningless and worthless without construction. From highways to railways, from houses to buildings, from airports to space stations, we have collected the top 10 most expensive construction works of history, and ranked them on basis of estimate cost of construction, we start if from number 10. 10- Mon-Fayette Expressway Project [...]

Who don’t loves to live in lunary house equipped with every cheap to fantastic facility? Number of types of living houses are found round the world, some squared, some ir-regular shaper, and some farm houses. The race of designing and cost of construction is continued since ages. We have collected the list of top 10 most expensive houses from round the world based on cost of construction, design [...]

Its such an age, where someone think of a building, make a design and it actually appear on the land in no less time. There were few too that emptied the banks too. Might look a joke, but some of the projects started never ended, some started with quite less perception of estimated cost, but expenses increased like hell when construction started. We have collected top 10 of such constructions from [...]