To anyone who might want some context, this relates to the Elbphilharmonie, a new opera house in Hamburg, Germany. Intended to rival the other great opera houses of the world, as-is tradition it was 10× over budget and eight years late

    > The cost to taxpayers climbed from an initially planned
    > 77 million euros to 789 million euros ($835 million).

It had it's opening on 2016-01-11 and 2016-01-12. It's already had it's ticket system hacked (and fixed) and it's beautiful. [1] [2] [3]

[1]:https://i.redd.it/ybs5ba59yt4y.jpg

[2]:http://seasidemagazin.de/wp-content/uploads/elbphilharmonie_...

[3]:http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/media/thumbs/d/dbba6ff9beacb55...