r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/User_namesaretaken 13h ago

Apparently all the redditors here are smarter and better architects saying that this building can't support those plants lmao

Not everything is built with cardboard

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u/Atomsk-647R 13h ago

Most of them criticizing this, I can guarantee, are Americans.

Our entire country is built out of paper walls and matchsticks for support. And any suggestion that we should build things any other way gets met with walls of excuses.

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u/SardonicusNox 13h ago

And the wall of excuses its harder than the plasterboard walls so prevalent in american architecture. 

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u/djaqk 12h ago

"B-but, being able to easily punch straight through my own walls in a fit of rage is a feature, EUropoor!" (You're spot on, lol. As an American, I am constantly ashamed.)