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Shanghai Building Collapse & Chinese Netizen Photoshops

by on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 47 comments comments

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Four days ago, a brand new apartment building in Shanghai collapse. If you have not heard this news, you can find more information here:

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(Click on pictures for larger version).

Of course, it did not take a lot of time for Chinese netizens on Mop (and KDS) to make many funny photoshops of this incident. Many popular trends such as Brother Chun and

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  • http://reshaw.blogbus.com 痘不列颠

    我操，超牛逼啊！

  • Zhangsan

    Oh come on…wtf with the last one, haha.

    First?

  • Joe #2

    Here in the west, we must beg the folks of Fark if we want destroyed buildings fotoshopped to include folks farting fire on them.

  • http://yusann.blogspot.com/ SaNn

    Photoshop is just wonderful….as I’m also using it….^^,

  • http://yusann82.blogspot.com/ SaNn

    I think the first one is very creative…

  • famours_in_chiner

    Funny pictures. I kinda wish I was there to see that building collapse. If stuff like this actually happened in Beijing, we could finally start seeing some reform. It’d be even more helpful if some foreigners were killed in the event.

  • The John

    The love of the ultramen gets me every time….

  • poyo

    oh noes

    china is being invaded by transformers

  • jason

    lame………………

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  • too yellow

    From the way it fell. It looks like they didn’t do a good of estimating the building’s geological foundation and design the building’s own foundations accordingly. From the pictures, it seems like the pile never reached the bedrock. And choice of materials seems to be a bit weird, as similar size buildings would have used steel pipe piles with a concrete core.(which is done in building near my house in Changsha, they even drive piles at night, get me insomnia for two days…) They need to examine others building in the complex too, as it looks like a design error.

  • fireworks

    So the blame is not on the developer but on the Shanghai ground?

    The leaning tower of Pisa is still standing even if its not upright. I feel sorry for people who’s put in a deposit or bought the apartments.

  • Peter

    It seems they left some guy in charge of the excavation for the underground parking garage to be built in front of the building who wanted to save a few RMB(or not so few) by not removing the excavated material to a safe location. He just had the earth excavated in front of the building moved to and piled high at the back of the building. Of course the pile foundation was not designed to withstand the added pressure created by the mountain of material now pushing from one side. When in addition heavy rains softened the excavated material, it began to move foreward,pushing the now on one side unsuported building into the excavated pit in front. It looks as if the piles snaped off at a plane below of which they where more firmly embedded in undisturbed soil. My feeling is that the design engineers were not informed about what was planed here as far as the excavation for the parking garage was concerned. If the contractor had ask the engineers:” Can we do it this way” the answer would have been “NO” for sure.

  • http://webdesign.coolstart.nl Building Standards

    Following modern highrise building safetystandards this kind of buildings must have an underground foundation that is 28% of the total length of above and underground length together. Therefor the management of this company showed is totally incapable and irresponsible ans should immediately be imprisoned.

  • bf

    Except one that I think is creative and well executed, others are crap.

  • CHGossip

    That’s not the only amazing stuff, we have “card building” in Xian. Have a look at the shots in this post.

    http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/photo/143760054.html

    the constructor insist that they use a new material which they call cellular board.
    but the board is made of card paper. XD

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  • me

    those are some very very very bad photoshops.

    chinese peoeple suxx0r @ PS

    • JoeH

      Come on… How much time do you want them to put into their joke photoshops?

  • me

    hehe :P

    go to fark.com and watch the photoshop activity threads.
    those dudes shit out worldclass PS in 5 min.

  • krdr

    Building didn’t collapsed, it fell-of or turn over or

  • African

    Go to http://www.youku.com and search for the discovery channel documetry on shanghai, it was bound to happen.lucky not too many lives were lost though.

  • http://www.orienthq.com Eamon

    lol some of those pics are awesome, especially the ultraman ones hahah

  • Laowai9

    An excellent example of Chinese greed. Do whatever it takes to get the job finished, regardless of safety or thought for the future. This is why nothing that is Chinese has lasting quality – not goods, not services, and especially not mainland Chinese people.

  • Whahaha

    Laowai9 and Guobao,

    read this :

    http://blog.taragana.com/n/part-of-parking-deck-collapses-in-downtown-atlanta-crushing-cars-no-report-of-injuries-95145/

    http://www.wesay.com/Top_Photos/News/126200917362548/

    You people talk like Al Sharpton if you know who he is and how Americans think of him.

    • Laowai9

      Absolutely right! Americans are just as greedy, but the Chinese are more viciously so. Here there is no legal recourse for shoddy practice, and these vampires get one of their number singled out for lynching and then it’s back to business as usual.

      The difference is that all these Mainlander sheep will act all shocked and aghast for a while, then forget all about it when they are the ones building apartments – the almighty Yuan will remind them that ‘rules don’t apply to me.’

      Al Sharpton is a moron, as is Jesse Jackson and all their publicity-whoring ilk.

      Only when Chinese – and Americans – take responsibility for their own actions will things improve. The way Chinese are desperately trying to become Americans these days, I fully expect political correctness and carpet-bomb blaming to appear all over this land any day now.

      Back to you, crusader.

  • Jenny

    Ahh it’s nice to see this outburst of creativity the collapse triggered :o)

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  • John

    yeahhh! ultramen! lol

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  • Mademyday

    wtf is with the last one, i sprayed my screen with water…

  • http://www.sidonieyang.com Shawn @SIDONIEYANG

    That’s quite an unfortunate thing to happy anywhere. Funny photoshops, though!

  • Nanny Hiccups

    Okay, admittedly these photoshops are funny.

  • Celkian

    Just part of an ad pitch.

    “We just knocked this over to show everyone how tough our buildings are. Just look at it, barely a scratch. Studies show most buildings eventually fall down, don’t you want to live in one that can fall down safely?”

  • Prime

    See.. if there are occupants in the building, none of them would have been hurt since it only fall to its side..this is a true wonders of chinese engineering.. a lesson learned from the recent sichuan earthquake

  • Mandalore

    I heard that the building collapsed because the land it was built on was unstable. All of the apartments were built on land next to a river, some of the earth around the foundations of the apartment became muddy (so basically it was floating), and then it fell over.

    But really, I would say that the fact that building is nearly intact is a testament to the engineering of the building. The safety and inspection standards though, are obviously not up to snuff in china.

  • ITS A TRAP

    yeah, except that the building obviously had no foundation. Anything that tall should have at least one basement or subfloor – judging from the photos, this thing had none. A stiff wind could have blown it over.

  • Miako Tamatsue

    It’s not nearly in tact. If they raised that building and plant it on another ground, I would not live in it if it means being homeless. It may appear to be in tact, but I guarantee you that the building is in so many pieces that they will have to destroy it.

    That building collapse like that because the foundation was extremely weak. If the foundation was strong like it should be, the only way the building will collapse is if it crumbles (like the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in NYC).

  • too yellow

    it’s actually has a foundation, it’s in form of concrete pipe pile. Basement and sub floor is a form of shallow foundation used mostly in low rise building. (for the tall ones, they simply just another floor, as the it almost always require a deep foundation base such as piles) The key here is that the piles never seems to reach the bedrock, as the piles on the “top” of the collapsed structure seem to be pulled out of the ground snapping.

    To me it looks like the geological engineer failed to take enough core sample and managed to build a building right on top of a clay pit without give it extra long pile foundations.

  • too yellow

    here are wikipedia link, you want to know more about foundations and the engineering that goes along with it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(architecture)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_capacity

  • JoeH

    you forgot to add tags around your comment.

  • JoeH

    *sarcasm tags*
    software saw my sarcasm tags as actual markup and took them out…

  • Jordan

    Miako, what kind of machinery, and how many we need to lift that building up if in fact it is still intact…?

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