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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > Architectural failures - "nah, it'll hold."

Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

Volcott posted:

Here's some light reading on times where it did not hold.

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

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

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

Which all culminates with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse

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Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

Benagain posted:

So JGM Architects did a building in Chicago last year for a college campus on the far NW side.

Looks to me like they've been watching a little too much Kamen Rider.

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Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

Grim Up North posted:

Use a wastewater processing plant and you don't need to crop out much.

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Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

And now we come full circle; the Chinese company NetDragon actually licensed rights from CBS in order to build their headquarters in the shape of the Enterprise.

Video flyover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbl45otRBiw

# ¿ May 22, 2015 04:22

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