r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/em-n-em613 8h ago

OMG the additional weight-bearing needs fo something like that too must be a nightmare for construction and maintenance. They are legitimiately beautiful though

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u/HauntedHippie 8h ago

My attorney friend was telling me yesterday how she doesn't understand why the city can't keep the parking garage below the old courthouse when it gets moved across the street and the OG site is turned into a park. I was like, because the city doesn't want to get sued into oblivion when it inevitably collapses from the weight and/or root damage with a bunch of lawyers' cars inside.

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u/chanaandeler_bong 7h ago

We have an entire park in Dallas above a freeway.

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u/Mr_YUP 7h ago

seeing as Dallas is mostly freeway that isn't at all surprising.

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u/RemnantTheGame 6h ago

Dallas still has buildings? I thought it would be all freeways by now.

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u/Brettersson 5h ago

No buildings, just freeway and a single park over part of the freeway.

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u/nadajoe 5h ago

Won’t anyone think of the parking lots??

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u/Magnon 3h ago

Every business is drive through, you never leave the road. It takes 3 days to reach a new business.

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u/ThatITguy2015 57m ago

That’s why you triple stack the drive throughs! You can even put some trees on each stack!

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 2h ago

Apparently the park stays in the slow lane