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This brings me back to a question I have frequently asked myself: What do you do with unsafe or old skyscrapers? How would you raze such a thing? What if it fal
by RGamma 10y ago
This brings me back to a question I have frequently asked myself: What do you do with unsafe or old skyscrapers? How would you raze such a thing? What if it falls over, breaks apart or breaks in on itself (9/11 gives an idea)?
To a layman (with slight acrophobia) skyscrapers seem pretty fragile, and I'd much rather have them built into the ground than towards the sky, but obviously they're holding up in general and I'm interested to see what happens with this one: Hope that it stops tilting or sinking? Raze it before anything bad happens?
- spectre 10y agoI did a bit of work on a 28 story building that developed a 1.5m lean during an Earthquake. The story of the demolition http://www.ward-demolition.co.nz/grand-chancellor/ http://www.ward-demolition.co.nz/grand-chancellor/
- JonRB 10y agoAs a fellow layman I imagine that's where incredibly skilled demolition work comes in. There are some wonderful videos of very precise building demolitions out there.
- ChoGGi 10y agoSlowly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf9LoS9Xt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf9LoS9Xt8
- overcast 10y agoThat's INSANE.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoWonderful! Thanks for sharing that. I work in the steel construction industry, we put buildings up all day every day, so watching them come down always interests me.