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Tourists check out collapsed high-rise in Shanghai

A FTV news report about how one tour agency in Shanghai has offered tours to visit the famous high-rise apartment that recently fell over on its side:

It’s a story about China, but I felt it was worth posting to display all the hard work FTV’s news graphics team put in creating a small animation of the building collapsing over and over.

I’m surprised they didn’t put a little stick figure under the building to represent the construction worker who was crushed to death in the accident.

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14 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 3, 2009 at 6:07 am

Categories: General Japan Tags: made in china

http://mf.rox.com MF

After the building collapsed, the people who had already bought apartments in it made a public complaint where they said this was another example of “tofu-dregs construction.” The construction company had the gall to say it wasn’t, because when the building toppled over, it stayed in one piece!
Adam

does the other buildings around it also have small supports?
http://www.vumiko.com Vumiko

Do I detect a bit of Anti-Chinese sentiment in this broadcast?

lulu

Well, if this had happed in the US or in Europe the reaction would pretty much be the same.
The only difference is that people have somehow gotten accustomed to reports of sloppy work, fake products, falsified scientific claims and so on from China.
I don’t see how they could have reported it in any nicer way.

http://www.chinasmack.com Fauna

The construction worker was inside the building when the building collapse. So, he could not be under the building.
http://mf.rox.com MF

The people who had apartments in other buildings in the complex have gotten their money back, apparently. It’s a good thing for them this incident got so much publicity.
http://www.hormel.com Vonskippy

Tell me again how China will become a huge world power when they can’t even copy simple structural engineering. I guess with all the internet censorship they filtered out basic math and material strength calculations.

http://mf.rox.com MF

Except that Hong Kong has been having short-piling scandals for years. The exception is that, luckily for the people in the apartments, none of the buildings has collapsed. Eason Chan’s dad actually went to jail for taking bribes in exchange for overlooking short-piling a couple years ago.

Brian

All it’s going to take is a slightly larger than normal earthquake (not likely, but not impossible in HK) to change that.

http://spaze.info rado

before going anti-china, please take a moment to appreciate the fantastic amount and quality of construction in shanghai, esp. pudong – some of the most amazing buildings in the world. this case hardly warrants generalisation about their practices. the fact that mori is chief player there should be interesting about japan-oriented people

The Overthinker

Pudong is a showcase. A Potemkin Village, in fact. Don’t judge a country by the face it wants you to see.
Brian

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe all major skyscrapers in China have been constructed by foreign firms.

…China does make some damn fine food, however.

Level3

before you go anti-China, please take a monet to consider that the Chinsese government pays some of it’s citizens cash to make pro-China postings on message boards and websites abroad (because they can just censor stuff insdie China)
it’s a good way for Chinsese uni students who have good enough English to get beer money.

Please send me an application form so I can make cash promoting China, too!
jony

nothing to be chamed on this. american bridges colapce very often after the inspections or cleaning. maybe its because they wash guano away wich holds those bridges together. neither are collapced mud-beton houses in Turkey.

Tourists check out collapsed high-rise in Shanghai

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