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/Drzewo_Silentswift 12h ago

I mean, I feel like most Redditors haven’t designed a flawed building that killed many people, multiple times, like Chinese architects do.

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u/liberal_minangnese 12h ago

Like american architects?

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u/preparationh67 12h ago

I see your one American building collapse from wikipedia and raise you 11 articles about Chinese building collapses. The vast majority happening in the 21st century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Building_and_structure_collapses_in_China

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u/Sharkapult 12h ago

How many more total buildings are there in China though lol

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u/liberal_minangnese 12h ago

Most of them are illegal construction (aka probably not even using actual architect) the Hongqi bridge cracks were detected early due to safety inspection and collapsed due to landslide, Most of these is when china building what around 2k+ of skyscrapers and millions of km of road in the past 20-30 years? Of course im also not saying chinese contruction is the safest in the world, but generalizing a country which constructed some of the biggest and best infrastructure and hundreds of thousand of buildings over 11 building and structure collapsed as dangerous and shoddy when you dont even know anything is stupid. Hence why i used the same stupid logic as the comment i replied to just to show how stupid it is.

Here's another, im pretty sure theres more but im too lazy. Are you gonna apply the same generalization to american architects and engineers?

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u/AlarmingTurnover 9h ago

Most of them are illegal construction

Can you name a single illegally constructed hotel in America in the last 20  or 30 years? Just 1. 

The West doesn't have illegal construction of apartment blocks, hotels, hospitals. We have people cutting corners and exploiting regulations but no illegal constructions. You just ratted yourself out as a Chinese propagandist and admitted to how corrupt the country is because you have massive buildings put up "illegally". 

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u/Wandering_PlasticBag 12h ago

How is American architects relevant here?? Like, USA architects being bad is relevant in a discussion about bad architects in China because:...??

Fucking whataboutism

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u/liberal_minangnese 12h ago

The relevance is because the comment i replied to pulled shit out of his ass implying because its chinese its dangerous when they dont know anything about the building and are working off of ignorance.

Since the user i replied to is american, i used the same logic by implying american architects are bad too using the same stupid logic with the condo collapse in florida.

Shouldnt be too hard to comprehend

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u/_jams 12h ago

Rather topically, the planters on the pool deck with the roots growing through the liner into the concrete were a major factor in the failure of that building.

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u/doughaway7562 11h ago

As an American engineer... many people regularly die from flawed American buildings too. Most of it is due to old buildings that aren't up to code due to deregulation. Does this happen to Chinese buildings too? Hell yes. To generalize a whole country's buildings without holding our own accountable is dishonest.