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..
In China buildings flatten you.
The cement on the walls of the buildings looks like Cybertronian language.
Stop Legoland build, it's solid but have no stability.
Construction companies taking shortcuts to maximize profits and government officials taking "campaign contributions" to look the other way never happens in other countries in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig_ceiling_collapse
Nope never happens.
Made in China
pfft.. a lot official figures are made in china.
anime/game/manga figures**
I lol'd hard at the pictures of those buildings with a million patched cracks
looks like a dominoe. no foundation
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.
... If only i could rent them , i would have wanted them to bring them our government's corrupt "palace". Yeah!
Lol, took me pretty long to realize that the last two pictures aren't actually apartment walls scribbled with white paints...
OHHH NO WAY!!1 BUILDING FAIL >.<
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..
This reminds me of Malaysian's Highland Tower collapse in 1993 which cost 48 lives. My good friend was killed in that incident. The way the building collapse look remarkably similar to Highland Tower incident.
Luckily no one is staying in the Shanghai building.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Towers_collapse
simpe FAIL...
lol! even those buildings which are still standing looks horribly unstable. :/
No one was in there, would have been a hell of a roller coaster ride.
Obviously the people who built the foundation sucked but the building itself is pretty sturdy :p
China QUALITY
yup, just like those cheap "made in china" electronic stuff with a warranty of 1 month.
everything is made in china. that makes it possible for you to RMA those motherboard you keep roasting for 1:1 replacement. Otherwise, they'd check, recheck and double check the motherboard first, to see if you used it even 1 mhz higher than it's supposed to be..
I would move out from the neighbouring building immediately.....
I would move out from China immediately
Whoa... I didn't realize the Biereco opened shop in China.
Now we know who fucked up the Tower of Babel. I guess that's why the Chinese were punished the hardest, being given a language that requires thousands of symbols instead of 26 simple letters.
actually 26 simple letters are pretty much a lazy way to make words
Architect failed...
There goes my apartment....
Now I'm wondering who actually built the tower of Piza
Looking at the diagram and the pictures they did not drive support pilings to the bed rock nor did they use enough re-bar in them.
All if these are going have to be knocked down and rebuilt properly if at all.
A river bank is a very poor location for a high rise building.
If they insist on developing that location low-rise buildings such as condos might be the only option.
There's a reason why only certain parts of NYC have tall buildings it's called geology.
make fun of dead earthquake victims
racism is here to stay.
long live the land of the rising sun
Tora Tora Tora Tora
Pearl harbor gone.
They weren't kidding when they said Chinese quality control sucks ass.
So what, they used plastic bottles for steel supports now?
made in china has a new meaning lol
they probably didn't construct the building straight enough with piling not reaching the hard bedrocks.
Reading through the comments, i can tell someone here is hiding that he is chinese.. yes indeed.
While the article is old, some comments are new, so i think a better explanation is in order. I think the explanation of the following article is the best among the internet http://simonteefb.blogspot.com/2009/08/shanghai-building-collapse.html
Basically, on one side of the building they dug 15 feet to build an underground garage, while on the other they piled the dug material. The soil creeped from the heavy side to the dug side. Piles are not meant to work that way, though a pile containment wall on the dug side would have prevented this. The piles failed by shearing and the building tilted toward the dug side
It IS impressive that it did not disintegrate upon falling though.
extreme engineering, discovery channel. china style
The Communists will probably find a way to blame this on foreigners.
okay seriously how the fuck did they manage that?
chinese = profit + fucked up safety standards
Why allways in this blog almost time show the worst part of China?? All this only happen in China?? Sure?? Japan didn't have some bad things too??? or the people who manage this blog only know to show how many they hate China?? Only becouse have one new in one zone of China didn't means that this is chinese style and aaaaall chinese do the same... please!! I guess japan have his bad news too.. and not only japan... all the countries in the world! But stop to only show the worst face of China!! Im living in China for looong time and i never seen anything about this and all the news you explain here about chinise news... China is so big... and if happen something in one town or some village not means that all the chinese people do the same!! my god...
PD: Sorry if my english is not perfect
They need to have a talk about rebar. I know... it is expensive to add metal to concrete.
the last 2 pics are shoppd
hahahaha
fuck china
wow you are brave to fuck this country. but before you can nuclear weapon will be fucking you first.
dammit~you guys wanna suck my balls~fuck!
hahahaha
internet trolls
no wit, yet so funny. hahahahaha
TIMBERRRrrrr!!!
Made in China
Well at least the Chinese have something they're good at... Destroying things...
uno stacko
AC参观团+1
The building itself is fine
It fell clean, and not even one piece of glass was broken O_O
Lol, from that picture, I'm guessing they failed to anchor into the bedrock. Skipping the preliminary investigation = fail.
ac参观团路过
This is why earthquakes are a lot scarier to me in China.
Oh modern China, will you ever find new ways to erode my heart and soul?
No one cares about the single worker who was crushed....OH GAWD JUST IMAGINE!! All of a sudden after hours of hard work, you suddenly feel a weird vibration. Looking up, you see the HUGE apartment slowly tipping over towards you...poor guy D:
poor worker...
I wonder if his last thoughts were, "oh man, I knew I should've called in sick today.."
+1
finally a human being wrote something
American construction is number one