China Builds “Leaning Tower of Zhejiang”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 6, 2011 12:53 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Architecture, Buildings, China, Made in China, Zhejiang
A China quality apartment building is currently being hailed as an inadvertent copy of Pisa’s famous architectural blunder, thanks to its increasingly pronounced lean – and as an added bonus, the tilting tower looks as though it may be about to create the world’s largest domino set.
Completed in China’s Zhejiang province in January, the 68m tall high-rise residential tower block was found to have started tilting in June, but specialists dismissed it as being “within design specifications.”
However, it kept tilting, and by the start of October it was so heavily tilted that even the local government was finally inclined to issue an evacuation order – not only for the leaning building, but also for several of the neighbouring towers, lest it suddenly topple into them.
A problem with the foundations is blamed for the tilt. It is not clear what will happen to the building.
The residents of the 18 households which had to be evacuated from the slanted building are now being housed at the developer’s expense.
Online, Chinese have dubbed the tower “The Rip-Off Leaning Tower of Pisa” and wondered if Italians would consider suing them should it lean any further – although given the fate of similar Chinese towers, it may not be around for much longer:
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Time to wait for the video of it collapsing.
With English subtitles.
Chances are the Chinese commentary on any of the buildings falling will be TEN TIMES funnier than just watching the building(s)collapse.
It didn't explode, so the Chinese can consider this a victory of sorts.
Hoping it explodes and then falls making it the biggest exploding domino set
Micheal Bay could film it and save a ton of money on special effects.
And here I thought Michael Bay was just engrish for ''Filmed in China''.
"China menaced by exploding leaning apartment buildings."
I'm not surprise since they build building finish with-in less than a week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxXU0hnEYcs
if it doesnt explode it has to collapse
thats the chinese way
in the end it breaks somehow
It could still explode! And collapse!
Maybe now that people were evacuated, the local government use it to store explosives for any reason...
It will probably collapse on some other building and then they both explode!
And the miraculous items that neither explode or topple are overrun by the Mongols and made into national monuments.
"You goddamn Mongorians! Stay away from my shitty warr!!"
if it didn't boom,
it has to bang.
that is the chinese way.
Just wait, it will explode when it hits the ground :)
It'll implode
They could goes for world largest explosive domino record
They need to fill up the higher side with tons of water and take the gamble it will straight itself up.
When it falls over, it will explode.
Just fly a airplane to it and it will come down cleanly. That's the american way.
Rofl XD
It was islamic extremist. Way to ruin a good joke Heigen.
The foundation is probably made out of garbage.
I thought that too.
I, for one, would love to see China make it into the records as the one with the largest domino set.
Lets see FlippyCat beat this one!
I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't a show on Chinese TV titled, "When Buildings Collapse!" followed by the even more popular, "When Things Explode!"
Bad engineering? Poor safety? Heck no!
It was all just another marketing ploy for sweeps. =‿‿=
I am really glad they evacuated the tower. Maybe they could use chemical anchors, shaped charges, detcord (etc.) to safely collapse the building before it finally collapses on someone.
Sir! Watermelons have been successfully planted around the base.
'safely collapse' vs 'leave to self destruct'
'medical cost' vs 'burial cost'
ring a bell?
Just this time around the safe way should be cheaper. Considering how they have to pay for all the residents and even their neighbours.
hahahahahah xD
china...do something smart?
oh you can make some funny jokes man xD
Well, we had so many deaths through professional negligence in China recently. I thought it'd be nice to see someone be take responsibility before other people are hurt/killed.
(Drill sergeant voice)
YOU CALL THAT A FOUNDATION???!!!!
MY GRANDMA COULD BUILD A STURDIER HIGH RISE!!!!
But sir... wasn't your grandma a highly qualified civil engineer?
Drill Sergeant: Shut up, Private!
SIR! YES SIR!
(Loli voice)
Sir! Yesu! Seru!
Ever see the episode of king of the hill where Dale made a 39 foot watch tower with no foundation to avoid building codes?
Pretty much the same with 90% of China's structures apparently.
The question is: can it explode?
Out of the eastern orientals how come china is seemingly the most richest but their products seem so damn cheap and third world, serious question. They have more economic power than say japan (earth quake proof buildings that withstand that horrible quake), korea (make tallest building in world in Dubai)
but China is a big fail their buildings trains and planes keep self destructing.
Serious question? Okay, serious answer. Outside of the incredibly upper class, the people of China will never see that money. Their government is keeping it all in order to hold the West hostage, a strategy that may or may not pay off. If China's economy collapses though, which is a very real and scary possibility, the entire rest of the world would be doing even poorer than it is right now economically.
Maybe the building is actually level and it's the whole rest of their country that is actually tilting?
nice one.
The world isnt flat y'know XD
"Mommy, why is all of our furniture sliding to one end of the room?"
How something like that is just possible?
Chinese people are a bunch of idiots that can't do anything right.
Racist people are a bunch of idiots who cant spell "human".
They also don't understand the function of the apostrophe.