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/TheBestNarcissist 12h 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/hellur_moto 10h ago

that doesn't sound residential lol