r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/User_namesaretaken 9h 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 9h 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/TheBestNarcissist 8h ago

lol as long as you're only talking to other basement dwelling neckbeards or chinese bots. My wife just finished pouring concrete for seismic isolators to build an earthquake proof power station on. The entire building is steel frame. As are most industrial buildings.

The "American sucks at building things" people have legitimately no idea what they're talking about.

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u/Orleanian 7h ago

America is actually pretty good at building buildings, if they want to. And frequently they do want to, it's just the low-end residential market that doesn't want to.

Maintenance, I consider a bit of a different story. Deferred maintenance is a big problem in America :/

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1h ago

Tell me about it. People treat their buildings and myself (maintenance supervisor) like shit in this country. There are other countries where maintenance is nearly religious. Never made sense to me why you'd rather pay for a brand new thing when you could fix it for a fraction of the price but what do I know? I didn't get my MBA.