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[Gallbaro]

Under construction building just sort of fell over, I have never seen a collapse like this.

http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/

 

[Thai]

shite, i'd be super wary if i were a tenant in one of the finished buildings

 

[Divvy]

Doesn't dominoes usually suggest a series of things tipping over?

 

[sprsk]

Mahjong?

 

[spoon!]

O_O

 

[Cow Mengde]

Ah yes, the quality of Chinese construction. Oh and I wouldn't lick that building if I were you.

 

[atkbob]

Now it's the world's largest bungalow.

 

[NetMapel]

Mahjong?

That building declared "HU !". In Mahjong term, it means I won.

 

[R2D4]

Chinese quality right there.

 

[Kool Aid]

I saw the whole thing. First it started falling over...

and then it fell over.

 

[ChRoNiTe]

Doesn't dominoes usually suggest a series of things tipping over?

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Gallbaro]

Well you see the two other buildings that are exactly the same?

 

[Medalion]

We can build a huge long-ass wall but can't make an apartment from falling down...what's going on you guys?

 

[Zaptruder]

Although you guys mock chinese construction, I'm impressed the thing managed to stay together so well after falling over like that. It's basically kept its form, bar some distortion... it hasn't collapsed in on itself.

If the foundation weren't so shit, the building seems like it could've weathered storms and earthquakes.

 

[sky]

Am I a little crazy for thinking it looks like a semi-delicious cake?

 

[SRG01]

Although you guys mock chinese construction, I'm impressed the thing managed to stay together so well after falling over like that. It's basically kept its form, bar some distortion... it hasn't collapsed in on itself.

If the foundation weren't so shit, the building seems like it could've weathered storms and earthquakes.

Yep, from the looks of it, the foundations/soil mechanics did the building in.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Although you guys mock chinese construction, I'm impressed the thing managed to stay together so well after falling over like that. It's basically kept its form, bar some distortion... it hasn't collapsed in on itself.

If the foundation weren't so shit, the building seems like it could've weathered storms and earthquakes.

This.

My friend who's been completing civil engineering projects in China pointed out to me that most large scale building projects are being (at least) part-undertaken by western companies anyway.

Looks like someone fucked their soil mechanics calculations at a guess?

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

That building declared "HU !". In Mahjong term, it means I won.

Hu is mandarin for booyakasha?

 

[Jamesfrom818]

I haven't played mahjong in ages. I lent my table and set to my sister a few years ago and I haven't seen it since.

 

[jasonng]

So how many tenants from the other two buildings are shitting bricks?

 

[KRS7]

So how many tenants from the other two buildings are shitting bricks?

If they shit these bricks strategically around the foundation, they may be helping.

 

[Schmitty07]

I like how the building is still intact after falling over.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Hmmm...I wonder if it's just a thing with Asian construction...

Build it fast and cheap and then afterward it's not your problem anymore.

 

[Gallbaro]

Hmmm...I wonder if it's just a thing with Asian construction...

Build it fast and cheap and then afterward it's not your problem anymore.

It is a developing nation thing. NYC slums et all.

 

[manofmandango]

Sounds like some good ole' liquefaction.

 

[SRG01]

This.

My friend who's been completing civil engineering projects in China pointed out to me that most large scale building projects are being (at least) part-undertaken by western companies anyway.

Looks like someone fucked their soil mechanics calculations at a guess?

My off-hand guess is that the piles weren't driven deep enough into soft soil.

 

[KHarvey16]

Looks like the weather wasn't much help either.

 

[YYZ]

That foundation looks like shit :lol

 

[MickeyKnox]

That foundation looks like shit :lol

If by "looks like shit" you mean looks to be non-existent then I agree.

 

[DoomGyver]

Under construction building just sort of fell over, I have never seen a collapse like this.

http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/

It clearly says "Made in China" on the bottom.

 

[Replicant]

Wow. Is it because the builders did an awful job or is it because the soil can't handle the construction?

 

[Nonoriri]

Wow. Is it because the builders did an awful job or is it because the soil can't handle the construction?

A little bit of column A...a little bit of column B

 

[KTallguy]

Well the builders choosing a site like that for the construction is already a silly mistake to begin with.

 

[Divvy]

Well the builders choosing a site like that for the construction is already a silly mistake to begin with.

Said the developer:
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build an apartment on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest apartment in all of Shanghai."

 

[zaccheus]

It clearly says "Made in China" on the bottom.

you stole my line :[