“It was supposed to be a 30 story tall building, but they built it sideways.”
Sideways Stories from Wayside School.
I was beginning to feel a little Mandela-y about this series. Thanks for confirming its existence.
Hold on now… Maybe the stories don’t line up… Did your universe have one about the kids eating ice cream flavored like the other students’ mouths?
It’s just pining for the fjords.
China, I assume? They’re quite famous for this shit.
Still more durable than US paper houses lolol
I mean, no, but two things can suck at the same time
Two tankie downvotes sitting in a tree
Not the kind of housing market crash the people were hoping for.
It’s rare to get a photo of a building sleeping.
It’s never done that before.
Side fell off
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
How is it not typical?
It’s ok, it’s out of the environment.
Well there’s yer problem!
Chance in a million.
That’s why you don’t build a million of them.
So that was China’s mistake…
They got pills for that these days
That thing is in shockingly good shape
Maybe they build them laying flat like that and then get a bunch of Amish guy to raise it with poles?
Yeah, much easier to build all of it at ground level, then prop it up. Genius!
Good luck getting the Amish to work with Poles.
I know they have a reputation as manual labourers but I feel like you’re being unfair to the Poles.
Scale is right, too. Just need to fix the rotation.
I know, right? They must have built it really solidly. Except for the whole falling down bit.
seems like they should have driven in some pylons before the foundation, of course, the REAL worry now is what about all those other ones?
You must build additional pylons.
too many pylons, not enough struts
“It don’t mean butt if it don’t got that
jutstrut.”-Captain Hazel Murphy (sort of)
That’s how it got knocked over, they built pylons, the damned Protoss moved in
They skipped on the foundations and the ground was soft. The rest of the construction was fine or at least good enough to outlive the footings.
They dumped the tailings behind the building and it slid after heavy rain, toppling the building.
- Plainly Difficult.
I mean since it’s a small percentage of ones that fall down. And this one’s already falling down and taking up that percentage. I wouldn’t even worry about the other ones.
I am absolutely certain that’s what the paperwork says :)
forgot foundations are a thing apparently.
That’s a different department.
This is intentional they build them on the ground then pull them up. Much less crane fees
Assuming that doesn’t y do fucky things with structural integrity… That’s pretty clever
Much like the Amish.
It fucken WIMDY
👈 there’s yer problem
What did that mean for the remaining instances of the same building? I imagine they were all built to the same high quality China is known for.
Actually this one wasn’t a case of bad construction quality, but bad oversight on surrounding projects. They compromised the foundation by digging out a bunch of earth next to it for another project.
The family of the migrant worker who died in the collapse, Xiao Dekun, received 775,000 RMB (approximately $113,000 USD) in compensation.[3]
13 were tried over the collapse, 8 others including local regulators and subcontractors had their licenses terminated and were fined 500,000 RMB (approximately $68,000). 9 investors were fired from their local government jobs for conflicts of interest.[4] The 2 top shareholders, Que Jingde and Zhang Zhiqin, were sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted on charges of graft, embezzlement of corporate funds, and negligence leading to a serious accident.[5] Zhang was also fined 5 million RMB (approximately 687,000 USD) and Que was fined 2 million RMB (approximately 275,000 USD).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Lotus_Riverside_Block_7
Found a wiki article about it cause I have to turn off my VPN everytime I accesses the wayback machine.
That seems like a lot of fallout from digging to close to the foundation of a completed building. I suppose the investigation kept digging up more corruption, so they kept throwing people in jail.
Nice this (lengthy) article has a handy (if tiny) graphic of what the problems were:
In that case, the building might actually be built to a very high quality? I’ve never seen a building do that. I would think it’d save lives.
Like those 1960 mercedes that’d survive a car crash, but people were splattered around inside.
Also, the building looks like plastic, lol.
Right? I’m genuinely impressed it stayed in one piece. It looks like most of the windows are still intact too!
I’m guessing that because the ground beside it wasn’t retained properly, it may have slowly leaned (like the famous pizza joint) and instead of stopping it, the just allowed it to continue to a relatively gentle fall.
Now for sale: Luxury 1st story apartments
Prime filming location for Inception 2
I think the oversight must clearly have been someone holding the blueprints sideways while they were constructing it
I mean given that the building still looks fine and did not just smash to rubble boy is that constructed well
Designed by Escher.
serious case of concrete shoes
The Amish will be there shortly to raise it.
Looks like a fancy mixing board in a recording studio
