Palace of the Parliament. With a greater volume than the Great Pyramid of Giza, it has 20 floors, 1100 rooms and is the heaviest building in the world. Multiple mountains were levelled to source materials to build it, and ten thousand homes were demolished to make room.
You can learn more about this incredible building here. It has an astonishing and ultimately tragic story.
Keramzytsays
World’s most expensive administrative building according to Wikipedia. Why doesn’t it surprise me that it’s in Romania? I honestly feel bad for the tax payers there
GraaKantsays
Multiple mountains?
cragglerock93says
IIRC, many of the rooms still aren’t finished.
KaiserMoneyBagssays
There are tunnels underneath too. I remember seeing Top Gear drive thru them.
stefantalpalarusays
> Multiple mountains were levelled to source materials to build it
Plus a small moon and some asteroids.
latflickrsays
Well done Ceausescu, you have done all of that, spent probably the equivalent of your entire GDP, and all you’ve got is this lousy wedding-cake-looking monstrosity.
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Speech500 says
You can learn more about this incredible building here. It has an astonishing and ultimately tragic story.
Keramzyt says
World’s most expensive administrative building according to Wikipedia. Why doesn’t it surprise me that it’s in Romania? I honestly feel bad for the tax payers there
GraaKant says
Multiple mountains?
cragglerock93 says
IIRC, many of the rooms still aren’t finished.
KaiserMoneyBags says
There are tunnels underneath too. I remember seeing Top Gear drive thru them.
stefantalpalaru says
> Multiple mountains were levelled to source materials to build it
Plus a small moon and some asteroids.
latflickr says
Well done Ceausescu, you have done all of that, spent probably the equivalent of your entire GDP, and all you’ve got is this lousy wedding-cake-looking monstrosity.