09/01/2021 12:16
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/01/2021 12:16 PM
After an operation that took several days, the expected
demolition of 15 skyscrapers
was carried out
simultaneously
in the city of Kunming, China.
The video images of the moment are truly impressive.
The huge towers were part of one of those
urban megaprojects that tend to stop abruptly
.
According to information
Taiwan News
Broadcasting
Gizmodo
, the company had started work in 2011, but two years later went bankrupt, why could not complete the project.
Panoramic view of the moment of the explosion of the unfinished megaproject of towers.
Video capture
In fact, they report that
only four of the total had been able to be delivered
to their owners.
The others had been half finished, they were uninhabitable and with the passage of the years they deteriorated.
The spectacular blast
It is enough to see the images of the event of last August 27 to realize that the blast itself lasts only a few seconds.
But behind it there is a previous work of days that requires, for example, to
flood the foundations with rainwater and evacuate the residents
of the nearby neighborhoods.
In the distance, everyone was filming the demolition of the towers.
Video capture
The shocking demolition of 15 skyscrapers simultaneously in the city of Kunming, China.
Video capture
However, the demolition
did not end up as successful
as they hoped.
It happens that at the end of the explosions
one of the towers is still standing severely tilted
to one side.
Background in China
It is not the first time that China has carried out a massive and simultaneous blasting of buildings.
For example, in 2017 they
destroyed no less than 36 skyscrapers
in a controlled operation that lasted just 20 seconds.
This is the moment 15 unfinished buildings were demolished at the same time in southwestern China.
The impressive video was filmed in the city of Kunming in Yunnan Province on August 27 [read more: https://t.co/QfkmBnk29d] pic.twitter.com/uLLRrls5LN
- Massimo (@ Rainmaker1973) August 29, 2021
Many also remember that occasion when they decided to
demolish a viaduct in record time using 116 excavators at the same time.
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