Living on the Edge, Extreme Chinese Architecture

hey, that’s where i live =(

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.

It looks like a neighborhood in an old JetSetRadio game. Actually, it looks perfect for an action scene.

Having my balcony as the neighborhood bus stop would get old after awhile.

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.

BUILDING OR HIGHWAY FIRST?

yet another mystery to solve...

When I was in Japan, I saw something similar to this.

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

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..

must be some awesome precision engineering, those Chinese engineers have master the art of designing and building a structure within 0.001mm of error.

I'd still take this over the NIMBY attitude that most Americans have -- they'd rather let any potential for efficiency and economic growth choke in traffic congestion. They'd also rather let people die in crashes at overcapacity interchanges (cf. the I-95/395/495 "Springfield Interchange" south of Washington DC) than give up a few feet of driveway/lawn or have their precious aesthetic views encroached upon.

I wonder if the highway was there first or the building. xp

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.

Fastest way to commit suicide :p

Reminds me of a building in Japan where the highway goes right throught it.

I can see myself standing there waving at people lol

Does the sight of that building gets me erotic in my erogenous zone?

hey, that’s where i live =(

<_<;

If the traffic is consistently like that displayed in the pictures, it's not a habitual problem.

Looks like an invitation to a new type of crime, lol

hardcore...just hardcore...

It must be nice to wake up every morning to the smell of exhaust fumes. Life span for people living there <=50years or ~3min.

hey, that’s where i live =(

hey, that's where i live =(

hey, that's where i live =(

xxxxxxxxtreme!

And there's a house causing a backup on the 405...

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.

If that cloth just happened to fall off and covered a car's windscreen..

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...

Must be very handy for a 911 call. They just jump to your house with no delay...lol

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.

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."

i remember the time i woke up and saw a car parked on my kitchen the problem was.... it wasnt a dream

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 is kind of normal here in my place...

this sure puts MYV jackass behind shame...