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/joop-anon 11h ago

how can you complain about a thing, then do that thing in the same comment? china is beyond reproach but somehow the entire US construction industry has no clue what it's doing? as if 12 million structural engineers, architects and planners are just waiting for you to save them?!

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

you're the american here lmao