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5 Buildings by World Famous Architects That Have Experienced Serious Failures

Nobody is perfect, and some of the world’s most renowned architects are here to prove it. They have created architectural masterpieces that sent every viewer in awe, but then with time the beauty faded, or in other words, failed. It would seem that some architects tend to mess up on some basic yet serious flaws, on their way to creating unprecedented icons. While they believe they are achieving the closest thing to perfection, there comes the problem from the corner they would least expect. Sometimes the problem might even be one’s initiated by structural defects rather than architectural, but no one cares about the details. The building remains entitled to its designing architect, regardless if it is good and bad. Now, here are examples of marvelous architecture designed by the world’s leading architect, but turned out to be not entirely marvelous.

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