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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…

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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.

Via Heaven, original Chinese source here.



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    Comment by doeman
    13:37 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, that's where i live =(

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:38 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, that's where i live =(

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:42 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, that’s where i live =(

    Comment by Onsokumaru
    13:43 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    xxxxxxxxtreme!

    Comment by firaku
    17:27 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:42 04/07/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I think the problem is stopping all the people from the highway from ninja leaping INTO your balcony and into your house.

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:24 22/10/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL! "Belcany"!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:34 10/11/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    what the fuck is a belcany, it's spelled balcony like Anonymous 07:42 04/07/2009 did.

    Comment by AmericanOtaku83
    13:48 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:50 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Lost
    14:51 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    if that aprentment hapend to have a femail with panties drying on it

    Comment by Mia
    19:08 23/02/2009 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Granny panties, large enough to cover the windscreen.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:41 27/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You made me lold

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:51 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Mia
    13:51 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Nit
    15:07 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    You certainly won't wish to live long if you were there..

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:54 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hardcore...just hardcore...

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:01 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:14 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I can see myself standing there waving at people lol

    Comment by Nit
    15:10 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    can see myself standing there showing my ass to people wwwww

    Comment by Palmtop Tiger
    14:16 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Sakagami
    14:16 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, that’s where i live =(

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:21 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    <_<;

    Comment by Firo
    22:03 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yeah yeah, we know, you live there >_>

    Comment by Ace
    21:15 25/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I lol'd.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:27 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anon
    14:28 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:29 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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. :) :)

    Comment by LoliHat
    14:30 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    I used to live by a cemetary. The neighbors were a lot let noisy...

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:31 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    That's what they'd want you to think...

    14:46 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    this is kind of normal here in my place...

    Comment by repure
    02:02 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    i know...
    i live that country too...

    Comment by Sil
    14:51 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:05 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    this sure puts MYV jackass behind shame...

    Comment by dario
    15:22 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by sankyuu
    15:28 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    ...i said i was sorry.

    Comment by iapfah
    15:39 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Elaborate, please.

    Comment by XSportSeeker
    15:39 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:10 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Kip
    16:22 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:27 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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

    Comment by Riiku
    18:13 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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."

    Comment by boneless
    23:44 26/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    More like:

    "Wow, we saved a bunch of yuan by not hiring that urban planner."

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:52 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Fastest way to commit suicide :p

    Comment by Jason
    20:42 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    XD

    Win.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:36 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    BUILDING OR HIGHWAY FIRST?

    yet another mystery to solve...

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:53 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Victor Delacroix
    23:10 23/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by MaidNiac
    00:27 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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..

    Comment by Muzaffar
    01:59 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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

    Comment by LxVxTx
    02:15 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    hey, that’s where i live =(

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:34 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    dad? is that u?

    Comment by LxVxTx
    03:46 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    woot?

    Comment by GNdynames
    03:50 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    That family would have to install steel bars on their windows if they don't want to get robbed...

    Comment by motaku96
    09:35 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:04 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:38 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:15 24/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

    Comment by Nit
    15:46 28/02/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japanese building: freeresearcher.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gate_tower.jpg

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:05 20/09/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

    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.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:13 22/10/2009 # ! Neutral (0)

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

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