Along with the German capital's new Berlin-Brandenburg airport and Stuttgart's large-scale urban renewal project around its train station, the Elbphilharmonie has for years formed a troika of embarrassing building projects for Europe's richest economy.
The alternative outcome would be one in which the government proceeds with its anti-lobbying stance and makes our scientists comply with its new clause in order to stop them from embarrassing government projects in future.
While Shekhar is off to Darjeeling on a business trip, Navin Ray violently thunders at Lalita about the loss of his hotel project, embarrassing and humiliating her.
Chelsea Through March 1 While not as good as his three appearances at the Gagosian Gallery (1995, 1999 and 2001), this exhibition of new paintings by David Salle at least shows him recovering from the embarrassing project-space show he had at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery a few months ago.
Most modern black metal groups with any degree of success have bloated into embarrassing cash cow showbiz projects like Mayhem.
The project embarrassed Washington because it was announced while the vice-president, Joe Biden, was in Jerusalem to kickstart Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Glossop ended the season rock bottom, never to return to the top flight, with Hill-Wood said to be vaguely embarrassed that his project very publicly failed to bear fruit.
The original cost estimate of $1 billion has ballooned to over $6 billion, and the project has been plagued by embarrassing setbacks.
Cody Battershill, the founder of the embarrassing I Love Oil Sands campaign, rapidly distinguished his pet project from the ad.
The mishaps, and the added scrutiny these have prompted from America's government, are embarrassing for the company, which has sunk some $5 billion into the project so far.
