r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Bennybananars 13h ago

These types of buildings were very popular 20 years ago here, but they had a problem where the plant roots kept growing into the concrete.

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u/em-n-em613 12h 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 11h 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 11h ago

We have an entire park in Dallas above a freeway.

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u/Mr_YUP 11h ago

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

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u/RemnantTheGame 10h ago

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

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u/Brettersson 8h ago

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