It should have been the pride of Benidorm, a town on the southeastern coast of Spain. And with its 47 stories soaring 188 meters (677 feet) in the air, it was also set to be the tallest residential building in the European Union. When the plans for the building, called Residencial In Tempo, were first proposed in January 2006 during the construction boom, there was no talk in Spain of a financial crisis. But shortly after construction on the building began, the crisis hit the country hard. The project progressed only in fits and starts, and then apparently went a little haywire -- because the architect forgot, among other things, to fit the skyscraper with an adequate elevator shaft.