Look What I Built

There is a particular kind of disaster that comes from knowing how to build something, but not knowing what you've built. In Look What I Built, Risto follows four such disasters across four thousand five hundred years. A pyramid whose angle had to be corrected halfway up — Sneferu's second attempt of three. A Chinese imperial palace struck by lightning a hundred days after its dedication. A warship that sank a thousand metres from the dock on its first voyage. An airship that fell in flames on its first commercial flight. Each was the largest, the proudest, the most expensive of its kind. Each had been certified safe. Each was wrong.