An allowable cost is a cost that can be paid by your contract or grant. UCSD considers a cost to be allowable when it meets the following tests: 1  The cost is reasonable; it reflects what a prudent person might pay.
Why wasnât it built? The design proved too expensive and complex to realize in Tatlinâs day, and he only managed to complete a few wooden scale models. However, thereâs some evidence that a group called Tatlinâs Tower and the World is planning to build a full-scale version of the monument. Unfortunately, they only plan to build it in separate sections, which will be housed in different venues.
Engineers and architects have always speculated about how tall skyscrapers could be. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a mile-high tower, the Illinois, to be built in Chicago. It was proposed in 1956. Most experts agree that the technology was there to build it at the time, but not the investment.