A 116-meter-high (380 feet), 32-story, 50,000-ton university tower built in 1972 was razed to the ground in a matter of seconds yesterday in Frankfurt, Germany.
It's the tallest-ever building in Europe to be demolished by a blast. They used 950 kilograms of explosives that they inserted into 1,500 strategically placed drilled holes.
That really is clever: no need of explosives, cleaner, quieter, more eco-friendly… plus it generates electricity!
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Some 235 kg of explosives and only 20 seconds were needed to demolish the home arena of the Orlando Magic NBA team.
There will be a new business center built on the place of this old 80-meter (262-feet) high office building that was demolished in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China, last weekend. Find the pictures of the explosion inside this post.
These photos capture incredible moments of a 17-storey concrete building being blown to pieces in Scotland. Glencairn Tower block that opened in 1964 needed about 55kg of explosives to be reduced to 12,000 tons of rubble. Inside this post, you can watch spectacular video of the building crashing to the ground.
Check out these crazy photos of the controlled demolition of a bridge.
Two high buildings were demolished in Ningbo to clear the way for new subway lines. The tallest 21-story building was 80 meters high.
Demolition of a chimney at a former brewery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant's smoke stake that was 275 feet tall fell the wrong way and crushed the surrounding buildings during the demolition process. The tower also knocked down two power lines and caused the power loss in the city for two hours. It all happened because the demolition company didn’t detect a crack on one side of the tower. Luckily, no one was hurt because of this mistake.
You just shouldn't be anywhere close to the demolition area, in a 3 mile radius...
Different countries use different methods to tear down a house. People in China probably use the most extraordinary and surprising method of house demolition.
It took over one thousand pounds of explosive to put this 450 feet tall and 345 wide monster down.
The demolition was considered potentially dangerous so people or the media weren’t allowed to approach the scene.
It took place on May 24 in South Carolina at the Savannah River Site.
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