Living on the Edge, Extreme Chinese Architecture
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Feb 23, 2009 13:35 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, China, Made in China
Yet another example of some rather extreme architecture, this time found in China. Though the building itself looks relatively sound, one has to wonder what kind of nuisances are present from living so close to the highway, though there is a more pressing question raised by the building’s construction…
Just which was built first to secure this overhang, the apartment or the highway? In either case we have to wonder what was going through the minds of the architects involved.










hey, that's where i live =(
hey, that's where i live =(
hey, that’s where i live =(
xxxxxxxxtreme!
lol, if you need a phone to call for an emergency just jump onto the belcany, or ninja leap off it into the passerger seat of a passing car.
I think the problem is stopping all the people from the highway from ninja leaping INTO your balcony and into your house.
LOL! "Belcany"!!
what the fuck is a belcany, it's spelled balcony like Anonymous 07:42 04/07/2009 did.
And there's a house causing a backup on the 405...
If that cloth just happened to fall off and covered a car's windscreen..
if that aprentment hapend to have a femail with panties drying on it
Granny panties, large enough to cover the windscreen.
You made me lold
The Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle cuts the corner of one building so close that the building actually sticks several inches into the shoulder of the road. It's kind of freaky to drive by.
It must be nice to wake up every morning to the smell of exhaust fumes. Life span for people living there <=50years or ~3min.
You certainly won't wish to live long if you were there..
hardcore...just hardcore...
Does the sight of that building gets me erotic in my erogenous zone?
I can see myself standing there waving at people lol
can see myself standing there showing my ass to people wwwww
Reminds me of a building in Japan where the highway goes right throught it.
hey, that’s where i live =(
<_<;
Yeah yeah, we know, you live there >_>
I lol'd.
Looks like an invitation to a new type of crime, lol
If the traffic is consistently like that displayed in the pictures, it's not a habitual problem.
Gee, when you live on what looks to be the 4th floor, you usually don't have to worry about a car crashing through your living room window. :) :)
I used to live by a cemetary. The neighbors were a lot let noisy...
That's what they'd want you to think...
this is kind of normal here in my place...
i know...
i live that country too...
Geez, they have so much barren land to build houses on but instead they build a house next to the highway.
It's going to cause health problems due to the dust generated from cars driving pass, and not to mention the carbon monoxide the residents breath in.
this sure puts MYV jackass behind shame...
i remember the time i woke up and saw a car parked on my kitchen the problem was.... it wasnt a dream
...i said i was sorry.
Elaborate, please.
Gah... we have stuff very close to this in Brazil too...
All due to poor architecturing and administration.
Even more when you consider the size of both Brazil and China... I mean, something like that in Japan would be understandable due to lack of space.
Must be very handy for a 911 call. They just jump to your house with no delay...lol
Hmm.
In Sim City I just bulldoze an apartment that's in my way with no qualms about the people living within.
I'll just build them a new one when my pointless highway is done anyway.
The building looks pretty old, I will say that the high way wasn't there when they built the building, and they were suppose to evacute the people inside the building and destroy it when they planned to build the highway. Either they were not obeying the rules or the people inside the building didn't want to move. Who knows
What was going throug the architector's mind? I'll tell you what was he thinking:
"Damn, our company doesnt have enough space available to build this house, oh well, lets just stick it in here, barely touching the road. What? The inhabitans health? Who cares, fuck them."
More like:
"Wow, we saved a bunch of yuan by not hiring that urban planner."
Fastest way to commit suicide :p
XD
Win.
BUILDING OR HIGHWAY FIRST?
yet another mystery to solve...
It is obvious that the apartment was built first. It is almost impossible to build the house after the bridge is built. It only shows how reckless these bridge designers are, ignoring the existing housing arround.
When I was in Japan, I saw something similar to this.
Melamine dairies, explosive pressure chair, haystack manhole cover, and now this...? Are they really expecting people to die due to cheaply made stuffs? I don't want to believe it but it seemed the rumour about China trying to put people to death as much as possible for organ "donations" is possibly true..
This is something normal everywhere you go, even in Malaysia. The developers are just selfish individuals who only cares about making money and couldn't care if they cause problems for others. I mean even my area is turning into chaos with highways and apartments under construction everywhere! Just to think that my place used to be an oil palm plantation some 20+ years ago....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subang_jaya
hey, that’s where i live =(
dad? is that u?
woot?
That family would have to install steel bars on their windows if they don't want to get robbed...
Doesn't look too dangerous. Maybe potentially dangerous but it depends on if there's been a history of crashes there and what the speed limit is.
Having my balcony as the neighborhood bus stop would get old after awhile.
It looks like a neighborhood in an old JetSetRadio game. Actually, it looks perfect for an action scene.
must be some awesome precision engineering, those Chinese engineers have master the art of designing and building a structure within 0.001mm of error.
Japanese building: freeresearcher.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gate_tower.jpg
Lmao, i dont want to imagine if someone sits on the balcony and a big truck just crashes right through it, i bet the building would collapse.
I wonder if the highway was there first or the building. xp