Here’s What Happens When Architects Over-Promise And Under-Deliver, In 61 Hilarious Pics

The experts note that the biggest disasters rarely result from a single mistake. Rather, they're often a series of small assumptions and mishaps that might be forgiven on their own but are a lot more difficult to defend when viewed together.

"Designing with construction in mind does not mean architects need to think like contractors," posits ArchEyes. "It means understanding how design decisions behave once they leave the page and enter a real assembly sequence."

While some expectation vs reality architecture fails are funny at best, and disastrous at worst, many would argue that we should cut the architects some slack.

"If architects are, in some sense, futurists, then visualization is the medium through which those futures get proposed," says the Archetizer team. "Of course, much of the challenge, as always, is to carry that vision through. But it starts with having the courage to draw it in the first place."