This is hilarious and scary at the same time:
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/showthread.php/146566-Build-to-Fail-Fail-to-Build.-What-is-this-I-don-t-even
Pages 1, 5 and 7 will give you an overview. Funny photoshops around 24 or so. Someone even made one of those Hitler videos about it.
Hah!
By astonishing coincidence, a colleague of mine tweeted just this morning asking if anyone knew of a good architect for a shed. I have to send him this link.
Wow. That makes the temporary things we build at the Renaissance Faire look like we hired Mike Holmes by comparison.
I once had neighbors who bought one of those $899.00 open air garages. He decided to build walls using particleboard. What a disaster that was. He bought a few sheets at a time and used bungees to hold them in place. The first pieces were wet and crumbling apart before he was halfway done.
I had to share a link with my husband. We’re about to tear down a shed that took a tree to the roof - I suggested I might have found someone to build us a new one! 
When I was a teenager the neighbor widow down the street decided to build her kids a playhouse. She had never built anything before. Ran into a problem and asked for help. My dad spent perhaps a couple of hours showing her how to figure the roof slope, notch rafters, etc. It came out WAY better than this shed.
Rafters layed flat…sheesh, some people really are clueless. And yet the floor supports (I hesitate to call them joists) are standing on edge. I didn’t make it to the roofing part. Wonder if they will start shingling at the peak? It reminds me of stuff we threw together with scrap lumber when we were like 6 years old.
As a real Architect–that hurt my eyes to watch that go up. The thought process was the amazing part. I don’t give that one season before it collapses. Maybe it has already, I didn’t get to the end of that thread yet.
I knew exactly what you were going to post!
Unfortunately, I don’t it will ever be finished- I’m really hoping to see the final vision that the artist has in mind.
British Columbia is in America now?
North America…
North America?
ETA: Jinx.
I feel bad for the guy, obviously he’s working his ass off on the thing. D:
That’s the funniest shit I’ve seen in a while. Can’t wait to get home and check out the video.
Only half of it.
I’m surprised at the shed’s strength. Theres a point in the video where they stack at least six sheets of plywood in one spot on the roof. Then this guy gets up there sheeting the roof. I thought for sure that stack of plywood would collapse the bad framing. But it held up.
From a distance it doesn’t look that bad finished and painted. Close up it looks like crap. 
But it is probably just storage and workshop space anyhow.
That has to be some of the worst framing I’ve ever seen.
I love the “trim” around the windows. What attention to detail.
I love it. Page 7 also has a timelapse video of the thing being built.
The incipient non-Euclidean warpage of it makes my brain hurt.
I don’t see how it’s possible to build something that bad unless it was an art project.