Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai

[_Cathy_]

Made in China kasi

This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it's still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.

Sounds like there was a problem with some nearby flood prevention walls at the Dianpu River, but there's no hard evidence as to why this huge building simply fell over. Anyway, here are some sweet pictures of the architectural carnage.

[170kphlang]

what did they expect :D
i wonder if anyone would still buy/rent from the building behind the one that collapsed

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[robot.sonic]

Cdr king condo.

Parang ang babaw ng foundation para sa 13 storey building.

Disclaimer: not a civil engineer.

[niky]

What foundation? Looks like the entire building was just bolted to the foundation with a few tubes, instead of the supporting structure being tied into it with reinforcement bar...

[roninblade]

you have to give credit for the integrity of the rest of the building though, it's still mostly intact.

[Retz]

Usually lulubog pag mahina soil pero ito nag flip. But in fairness tumatayo pa ung building sa likod.

[Manilablock]

Ung mga pipes na nakakabit sa foundation ng building ay micropile foundation, ginagamit yan kung malambot ang lupa. Sa picture kita naman na hindi maganda ang connection ng micropile dun sa building, naputol.

Ang problem ng isang building ay magiging problem na din ng iba kaya unsafe na din ung the rest of buildings.

[Retz]

akala ko nga mat foundation ginamit at first glance. Goodluck na lang sa ibang building pag dumaan dyan yolanda.


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[number001]

Is this recent ? It looks familiar bec. I believe its an old pic circulating around the net.

[Monseratto]

May gumuho din sa Divisoria dati... nag tip over.