Posted June 30, 200915 yr via curbed blog -- sure buildings sink and collapse, but you don't see this too often :-o did they forget the foundation? :roll: actually, remarkably the building itself looks like it held up pretty well. Building Collapse Betting Pool Goes International Monday, June 29, 2009, by Joey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While we've seen our fair share of building collapses over the past 18 months, we can't say we've seen a building fall completely over on its side, Hollywood slapstick style. That happened Saturday in Shanghai, China, where construction mishaps are always done to the extreme. According to Reuters the 13-story apartment building's fall killed one construction worker. The horizontal skyscrapers trend is really taking off. · Nearly completed high-rise collapses in Shanghai [Reuters] · Photos: Building Collapsed in Shanghai [Zona Europa via Digg] http://curbed.com/archives/2009/06/29/building_collapse_betting_pool_goes_international.php
June 30, 200915 yr The guy in charge of building the foundation must have been out sick the day they built the foundation.
June 30, 200915 yr What do the residents or future residents think when they see that? I mean, they are all identical.
June 30, 200915 yr ^ Seriously, I doubt it will prevent them from moving in. I'm sure they'll do an inspection, but it's not like disasters like this haven't happened before.
June 30, 200915 yr Isn't there a superstition that if your building falls over, it's bad luck for a year?
June 30, 200915 yr Uh... this should be a wake up call to the people who live in the buildings identical to this one. Get the frack out!!
June 30, 200915 yr Geotechnical report. Learn to get those before building 13 story towers on top of mud pits. You can tell by the way the soil is al turned up, and the footings lifted right out of the ground. I'd be surprised if the rest of the buildings around don't start to lean over Pisa-style, or at least have significant cracking and foundation damage within a year or two.
June 30, 200915 yr How did it stay in one piece as it fell? I was under the impression that if a building leaned to much, the forces on the frame went out of balance and it fell- but mostly into it's own footprint.
June 30, 200915 yr Maybe all the concrete that was supposed to have gone into the foundation was put into the structural frame instead. :) Engineering professors will certainly be using this as an interesting case study for years to come.
June 30, 200915 yr It kinda looks like a giant tried to play dominoes but failed.... If only they had been planted closer together we could have the largest dominoes ever. But for real, the problem in China is bribery of the people who inspect for safety. But if the tainted baby formula incident is any indication, those found guilty will hang, literally.
June 30, 200915 yr But for real, the problem in China is bribery of the people who inspect for safety. I don't know if you follow the news in Cleveland, but bribery of building inspectors is hardly a China-specific problem.
July 1, 200915 yr I've seen an example of this effect before, except that it happened because of an earthquake. The article states that the building was under construction. I suppose this minimized the damage, compared to an occupied building. :-o I suppose it landed softly! I can only see cracks on the exterior. Much of the window glass survived!
July 1, 200915 yr I don't know if you follow the news in Cleveland, but bribery of building inspectors is hardly a China-specific problem. It's an art form in China. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 1, 200915 yr Now that I think of it, Flint, MI had two brand new buildings that collapsed. And Detroit's buildings are basically collapsing by the hundreds. So I guess China ain't all that bad.
July 1, 200915 yr Aside from the oddity of this, anyone else notice that this looks the projects? Looks like they'll need a car to live here, and that's a lot of cars.
July 1, 200915 yr yeah and if you can even make much out past the haze, everything in the background looks like projects too. sheesh, does anyone live in the countryside in china anymore? :|
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