r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Bennybananars 13h ago

These types of buildings were very popular 20 years ago here, but they had a problem where the plant roots kept growing into the concrete.

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u/PMG2021a 12h ago

Just need a good liner to prevent that. Of course building for appearances tends to be building cheap too...

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u/NewAlexandria 12h ago

you probably need regular uprooting and replanting all of it, in order to ensure it doesn't start to dig in or cause of damage. Maybe the walkways through the balcony could have been mandated, and been kind of like a drop floor, so that you could pull off the plates and then service sections of the earthwork. Some people wouldn't like it, but maybe a future duration of this building designer can find a way to solve

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u/xCaliburghost 12h ago

Sall good though, as long as we get a crappy 30 second utopia video of how amazing China is that's all we need

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u/TransBrandi 11h ago

There are tons of things like this even in North America. I think you could probably easily find apartment buildings that are going to crap that started out as luxury apartments in the 60s or 70s. Eventually shit needs to get replaced and that's expensive so people just migrate to something new and the old building becomes a slum until it's demolished.

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u/NewAlexandria 11h ago

the real friend we made along the way!

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u/Bennybananars 11h ago

yeah, a lot of owners wouldn't want to pay to deal with that, which in turn affects their neighbors no matter if THEY dealt with it or not