13-story Building Topples

By Miss Cellania in Architecture on Jun 28, 2009 at 10:46 am

You don’t want to be around when a high-rise apartment building falls over! The unfinished 13-story building in Shanghai toppled Saturday morning and killed a 28-year-old worker.

“It was just like an earthquake,” witness Zhang Supong told China Daily.

Construction of the building has been halted pending an investigation of the collapse, including reports that cracks had appeared Friday on a flood prevention bank near the apartment building, Xinhua reported.

Link to story. Link to pictures. -via J-Walk Blog

Tags: building, China, construction

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sadtomato
Jun 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
The picture link does not have pictures.
phoulx
Jun 28th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
The picture link has lots of pictures now. Somehow the thing fell over in practically one piece and all the windows are intact.
That’s some kind of engineering! (or photoshopping)
v.dog
Jun 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
If that’s a photoshop job, they’ve done their homework. That would be more impressive than the building actually collapsing.

I’m guessing the ground subsided, it look very soft there.
Alex
Jun 29th, 2009 at 4:21 am
The thing is that these apartment buildings are sprouting like mushrooms in China. They have rows upon rows upon rows of them. Someone told me that on average, a building like this one goes up in China every single day.
Christophe
Jun 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
They were short on steel apparently…
Pangolin
Jun 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Considering that the building is intact, the problem isn’t in it’s design/construction but rather in the substrate it was built upon. It looks like a clear case of soil liquefaction to me.

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