Construction, Chinese Style
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jun 28, 2009 06:15 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Bizarre, Buildings, China, Image Gallery, Made in China, Shanghai
The prowess of Chinese engineers has resulted in another Middle Kingdom marvel, in the form of this spectacular building collapse; so expert was the construction of the structure’s foundations that the collapse occurred cleanly and without much damage to the structure, breaking neatly at the base.
The structure itself was a 13-storey Shanghai apartment building, still under construction, built alongside a number of identical developments, the owners of which are likely eyeing their own foundations with no small trepidation.
Investigations into cause of the collapse are ongoing, though it hardly takes much insight to realise the likely reason.
Only one worker was horribly crushed when the structure fell, as nobody had yet moved in.
Such innovative construction techniques are said to be typical throughout China, a nation whose superficially impressive economic foundations also at times look as unstable and ephemeral as some of the buildings…
Via Itai News.
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Im just impressed that It managed to stay together so well after falling over.
I can't help but wonder what would have happened if it had fallen over in the other direction. I'm thinking dominos here people xD
Well at least they can just push it upright again ^^
Convincing people to move in is another matter entirely.
LOL, if only that were possible.
Whoever was responsible for the shotty foundation work done on the building will most likely lose their jobs and/or end up in prison.
Consider this another textbook example of poor structural engineering at its worst.
Prison?
It's China, dude.
Guys responsible will be billed for bullet and shot.
When I see this sort of stuff, I always wonder:
* was it bad engineering?
* was it bad implementation (i.e., cheaper, weaker materials were used than what the design called for, and inspectors bribed/blackmailed into signing off that the proper materials were used)?
i agree with Wynn, typical chinese, when they get the money on their hands, rest is just random
bad materials and slipshort work i guess
So your saying that there half-smart.
yup. the building collapse because some dumbass didn't pile the pilings until the bedrock only half-way.
Quote Anonon: "Yup, Up from the foundation it seems like they did a good job. At least on the outside anyways."
Yeah thats the only part the engineers couldn't take pictures of.
Just tell everyone the plastering over the cracks is alien language.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/44054__468x_china-build-quality-029.jpg
Yup, Up from the foundation it seems like they did a good job. At least on the outside anyways.
They did a pretty good job on the railroad tracks in the US.
The railroaad tracks were built vertically, they fell too.
Chinese Engineering is an oximoron.
Ahh... The wonders of chinese engineering.
Who knows, maybe the Great Wall was just a giant stone tower that snapped off at the base and fell. XD
And knowing China, they probably said they did it on purpose.
In American, we'd just chalk it up as "New-Age Housing Complexes", where the "sideways feel adds a new dimension to our lives".
I love this country. XD
Successful failure?
"y must this thing happen in china?"
If they build it, it will fall.
Unfortunately, yes， chinese engineering
y must this thing happen in china?
A new wonder after the great wall. XD
it's said that the building fail is caused by foundation problem.
"there half-smart"
people in glass houses...
smg? submachine gun?
bmg
a .50 cal SMG should do the trick.
It's funny because he made himself look like a moron. ^_^
Unless he's talking about the 15lb Thomson, AKA the Tommygun, in which case it's Classic.
.50 cal sub machine gun? Can anyone even handle firing three rounds continuously without breaking an arm?
You want me to throw stones at your house?
bulletproof glass lol
at least they're smart enough as to not build the apartments so close together that it would create a domino effect if this were to happen
That would have been funneh.
LOL it's built out of cardboards. Reminds me of a board game back in my childhood called Hotel.
HOTELS WAS A KICKASS GAME!
china will need to borrow japan's gundam to pull the building back up
Nah, the minuts it sets foot in China, its breaks too.
Quote of WIN.
Both fail and awesome on a lot of levels.
What do you call this..
The cement on the walls of the buildings looks like Cybertronian language.
In China buildings flatten you.
Lol, took me pretty long to realize that the last two pictures aren't actually apartment walls scribbled with white paints...
looks like a dominoe. no foundation
Made in China
pfft.. a lot official figures are made in china.
anime/game/manga figures**
Architect failed...
Chinese can make decent products if they didn't try to pinch every penny out of it. China = Cheap end of story. Oh save half money by only halving pillars for foundation.
If this was Old America (1950's and before) they would have over engineered the hell out of it, and then doubled it just to be on the safe side. Unfortunately America is turning just as cheap.
I lol'd hard at the pictures of those buildings with a million patched cracks
... If only i could rent them , i would have wanted them to bring them our government's corrupt "palace". Yeah!
And the damn thing fell clean...
Instead of talking about how Sankaku seems to be putting China down and all that crap, you guys should realize that we had a victim here. Isn't that more important?
0_0
You're actually right about that. I wanted to say "Hope nobody was hurt/died.." but i thought that apartment actually collapsed right before it was occupied..