We guess that if they managed to build the pyramids, St. Peter’s and Notre Dame without the assistance of modern scaffolding, then a poxy little block going up outside our office in Bucharest can likewise make do without:
At least they splashed out on a steel crane
Perhaps the developer is a keen historian eager to preserve medieval know-how?
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Go to Hong Kong and see the ultra modern blocks being constructed using bamboo scaffolding. Always struck me as very impressive and made me wonder if it is us who have got it wrong
It is funny until you see how many people get killed each year on construction sites in Romania.
Craig, this just makes me laugh. There is a certain sort of perverse reveling in backwardness here that you do indeed have to see to believe. Another fine example.