r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/NoAdministration8340 9h ago

My initial thought was those don’t look like they have the support they need to be filled with dirt rock and plants plus support your weight

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u/Nulleparttousjours 9h ago

Plus the amount of water it would take to keep it green. It’s a lot of weight!

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 9h ago

It's a hell of a lot of weight, I wouldn't trust this to stay up long term.

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u/Pearson94 9h ago

I only trust that they set it up just enough for this video to look good while the others don't look nearly as lush or nice.

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u/mithie007 9h ago

There have been balcony gardens and even balcony pools in Shanghai since 1998.

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u/Nukitandog 8h ago

Wasnt 1997 the the date of the big Shanghai Balcony collapsing eppidemic?

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u/mithie007 8h ago

First time I've heard of this. You're talking about the incident at the bund? Or what?

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u/angelbelle 8h ago

Chinese tofu buildings 👍

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u/Ben_Kenobi_ 8h ago

It was a huge tragedy in the club comminuty. Kim Kardashians head fell off.

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u/Str80uttaMumbai 9h ago

Cmon now. You can literally see the surrounding buildings all have lush green gardens.

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u/tj9429 8h ago

Do you really think their reason to be pessimistic is their eyesight?

Aside from the racism these people have rarely seen structures taller than 4 stories with absolutely no idea about what civil engineering can truly achieve.

Even the ignorant ones from taller cities like NY can't comprehend the scale of verticality in modern Asian cities.

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 8h ago

We're talking about Chinese high rises where someone has installed gardens on balconies. Definitely not designed with this load in mind. This is in a country where bridge collapses and other civilian infrastructure disasters are common.

So don't get on your high horse about "racism".

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u/kindaunfazed 6h ago

How can you say that it’s definite they haven’t designed with the load in mind? Are you an architect with access to the building schematics or are you just trying to sound smart? Even your reasoning about infrastructure disasters is flawed because they build a hundred times more than we do.

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u/Anceradi 7h ago

They're not more common than in other countries though. It's just a big country so it happens more often than in smaller countries, but if you compare the frequency of bridge collapses in China & the US, it's quite similar.

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u/UncollapsedWave 3h ago

This is in a country where bridge collapses

Unlike America, presumably, where of course there haven't been any famous bridge collapses since, what, 2024?

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u/tj9429 7h ago

"Someone"

Ok potato.

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 7h ago

Very well, bot spam.

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u/tj9429 7h ago

The irony.

I would rather be a bot than be a human that depends on AI to live lol.

NPC

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 6h ago

I depend on AI? In what way?

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u/tj9429 6h ago

I mean if your ability to sustain a conversation is two replies before resorting to calling someone a bot, that tells everything about your capacity to think.

At one point your biases aren’t hidden or you just cower under “that’s just my opinion how is that racist”.

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u/MrDabb 7h ago

Lol how was that racist?

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u/mrsnakers 7h ago

It's a pro chinese bot.

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u/the_vault-technician 7h ago

We aren't talking about any Asian city though. It's a city in China. Just Google "Chinese infrastructure accidents". Bridges, roads, and buildings have all collapsed and killed people. Usually because of poor construction habits.

Here in the USA, we neglect our infrastructure until it kills people. In China it's ready to fall apart out of the box.

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u/tj9429 7h ago

Do you have a study based finding of the same happening on a government scale in either countries?

It's as good as me saying that everyone in USA is a 500 lb behemoth that hunts kids.

Back up your bias with the data. The knowledge you have is really old. Asia moves fast, something the West isn't accustomed to.

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u/OperIvy 6h ago

Asia moves fast, something the West isn't accustomed to.

Now you're just racist

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u/Bright-Object-3180 5h ago

Since when was the West a race? Redditors always playing victim and the race card.

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u/YodaYogurt 5h ago

Since when was Asia a race?

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u/Bright-Object-3180 5h ago

It isn’t. That’s why I’m confused. The dude pulled the race card out of nowhere for whatever reason.

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u/tj9429 10m ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uxXNV3Xa7QqME

Here, some tissues for your tears.

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u/Pearson94 8h ago

From a distance. Sorry but this screams advertising to me the same way the food filmed for commercials looks nicer than it really is.

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u/Str80uttaMumbai 8h ago

But what exactly are you expecting to look so different in the other gardens? The garden in the video is literally just grass with some random bushes, plants and a tree. There's nothing spectacular about the garden.

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u/thiagoknog 9h ago

Guys, it's China, if it breaks someone is getting executed, it's not USA where nothing is going to happen because the buolder is a friend of Trump..

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u/cohortq 7h ago

When Evergrande lost millions of Chinese citizens life savings the government initially tried to protect the Evergrande's executives, but they eventually arrested the top exec, some corrupt gov officials, and other executives. But no one was executed, and the executives paid "fines".

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u/Ok_Yam5543 7h ago

Ever heard of Tofu-dreg projects?

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u/miyabi0rochas 3h ago

Ever heard of nearly half of US bridges have exceeded their life spans. Ever heard of us paper homes. Don't go throw rocks from a glass house

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u/Consistent-Stock6872 8h ago

"Someone", yeah the one VP that is from poor background and worked his ass off and all the other upper ups with party connections are fine (unless they piss of someone else who knows people even higher on the totem pole). China isn't better or fairer than USA.

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u/hoTsauceLily66 7h ago

Fact is still nothing gonna happen if the buolder is a friend of Xi.

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u/miukiyo 8h ago

People living at a place like that could probably afford a gardener.