A more complete set of photos of this June's Shanghai building collapse and diagrams explaining what happened and why.
Jeff
that building is in pretty good shape for just falling over. Most of the windows even look intact.
I thought the same, but there are lots of references to that event via Google, and Snopes has nothing (negative) to say about it.
Jeff (If I've been had, I've been had.)
Yeah, it really happened.
You'd think they could just stand it back up... But the whole thing is concrete and masonry, and all fractured to heck - look at the side view with the big curve in the formerly vertical side of the building. They should be able to go through and salvage most of the windows and fixtures, and get out all the personal belongings...
But the building itself is now landfill rubble, bulldoze it and start over. They might be able to salvage some of the bricks if they want to put people on it with cold chisels and mallets, but most of it would be best crushed and recycled into fresh cement aggregates.
Digging a big hole on one side and stacking the dirt on the other is a huge mistake, but... Looks to me like the footing pilings were woefully inadequate too, but what do I know?
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