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Apartment building fell down in China (12 pics)

Posted in Pictures 29 Jun 2009 / 81646 views

13-storey apartment building collapsed in Chinese city of Shanghai, which was almost finished. It fell without being destroyed, like a domino.
It gives the impression as if the building was razed as a tree and was laid down...
According to the official version, the reason of the building collapsing was the construction of the underground garage and the loose soil.

Apartment building fell down in China (12 pics)

[via dailymail.co.uk]
[via zonaeuropa.com]

Tags: China, Shanghai, building collapse

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Double J 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

Holy shit, Im glad it fell before it was finished, could have killed hundreds if not thousands of people.

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thinkker 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

hmm i bet the neighbours living in identical buildings will want to move the **** out. dance3

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bobnine 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

It missed the next building so closely its almost like they expected them to fall down and left some space just in case.

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exor 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

It missed the next building so closely its almost like they expected them to fall down and left some space just in case.

in Mexico City they buld like that

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Tarzan 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

you mean you want them to fall as dominos...?

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich :)

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PETE 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

But their windows are allright though. acute

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grah 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

New way of building, cheaper - flat on the ground then lift it. Takes more space, but it much cheaper.

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Premo 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

26 employers dies

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kami 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

oh my GOD it is horable JC_OMG_sign

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Chinaman 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

Something is fishy in this story. Shanghai is VERY short on space - I doubt they could afford to build at such distance between blocks.

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Jo 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

But there is NO trace of any underground garage.... seems like a little lie there..

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Jacek25 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

I'm civil engineer. Building near river banks is complicated cause of soil conditions. Those guys should consider slab foundation, or just use reinforcing steel in those poles :) And I was afraid of upcoming flood of affordable chineese engineers :>

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ICL 3 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

If I was living in the nearby apartments I would move out.

Hollow concrete piles are designed to have reinforcement and concrete poured into the central core once the pile is in place. The reinforcement is then tied into the strip foundations.

Look at the close-ups of the piles. The concrete and reinforcement has only been placed at the very tops of the piles.

Someone has been cutting costs and deserves to go to prison for a very long time.

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Kane 2 year s ago MARK AS SPAM

Haha i wonder if it landed on anyone... I mean I hope it landed on someone. In fact I would find it really funny if all the contractors were having a family BBQ in the park behind the building admiring their work and showing off, then "oh no godzirra!!" splat... Hilarious I laughed so hard I popped a boner.

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