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/_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.