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- Metro Madrid L-12: (Metro Sur) Location Madrid, Spain Length (feet) 40,900m Type Metro [...]
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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 Area 581,400 m² (6,258,000 sq ft) 9- Air Force Plant 4 Name Air Force Plant [...]
July 30, 2010 12:54 pm
Top 10 longest runways of world
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 (feet) 15,420 Coordinates 04°23?08?S 015°26?40?E 9- Harare International Airport Airport name Harare International Airport Country Zimbabwe Length (meters) 4.725 Length (feet) [...]
July 29, 2010 2:01 am
Top 10 highest bridges in the world
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 level. Few of them may be under construction, but finally, they are in our list. [...]
July 25, 2010 3:34 pm
Top 10 most expensive construction works
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 Details: Project Specifications Mon-Fayette Expressway Highway Project Construction Cost $ 5.4 billion Country United States, The Mon-Fayette [...]
July 19, 2010 3:52 pm
Top 10 most expensive houses of world
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 and worth of house, we hope you like it. Starting it from number 10. [...]
July 15, 2010 1:30 am
Top 10 constructions that emptied the Banks
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 round the world and prepare the collection. We cover [...]
July 14, 2010 1:30 am
The worst building of the history
It’s the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, where the world’s 22nd largest skyscraper has been vacant for two decades and is likely to stay that way … forever. Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom (also known as the Phantom Hotel and the Phantom Pyramid) isn’t the [...]
July 4, 2010 1:37 am
Football Shaped house in Brazil
The buildings at most of the Brazil covering are square shaped, but this Sphere at Sao Paulo, Brazil is an extra ordinary among all. There are small balls, big balls, but this is someone called the giant ball. But you can’t kick it around J because this 32 feet sphere is 3 story building belongs to a director of cell phone company, who is actually a lover of football. According to him, people think it as some hotel, or some [...]
April 2, 2010 9:48 pm
Top 5 Mind Blowing Buildings
>No.5 - Caltrans District 7 Headquarters Los Angeles, USA When California’s Department of Transit (Caltrans) needed new headquarters for its Los Angeles County division, it hired Pritzker-prize winning architect Thom Mayne to create a massive and multifaceted complex that has come — with its profusion of forms, levels and materials — to define its downtown Los Angeles neighborhood. The building — which contains offices, various indoor and outdoor lobbies, an amphitheater, and four stories of underground parking — is covered in aluminum [...]
