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Everybody Fine After Giant British WWII ‘Tallboy’ Bomb Finally Blew Up In Poland

6 months ago

Everybody Fine After Giant British WWII ‘Tallboy’ Bomb Finally Blew Up In Poland

Justin T. Westbrook

Here’s The Drone Footage Of That Smokestack Demolition Gone Horribly Wrong

5 years ago

Here’s The Drone Footage Of That Smokestack Demolition Gone Horribly Wrong

This Office Tower Is Being Demolished, But Not Before A Giant Art Party

7 years ago

This Office Tower Is Being Demolished, But Not Before A Giant Art Party

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Buildings get old — most office towers aren’t designed to stand for centuries, as they once were. In Tokyo, a team of artists and curators got permission to interrupt this a near-perpetual cycle of construction and demolition by throwing one last party inside a tower destined for the scrap heap.

This Concrete-Recycling Robot Devours Entire Buildings

8 years ago

This Concrete-Recycling Robot Devours Entire Buildings

Adam Clark Estes

Out With The Old: 10 Mesmerising Demolition GIFs

8 years ago

Out With The Old: 10 Mesmerising Demolition GIFs

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

We tend to think of demolition as destructive: dynamite, dust and plenty of fireworks. But as a New York Times article recently described, demolition in dense cities is more and more often a “stealth” operation, where a building is dismantled over a number of weeks.

Watch Five Huge Power Plant Towers Collapse In Slow Motion

8 years ago

Watch Five Huge Power Plant Towers Collapse In Slow Motion

Kyle Wagner

This Floor-By-Floor Demolition Of A Skyscraper Is Amazingly Peaceful

8 years ago

This Floor-By-Floor Demolition Of A Skyscraper Is Amazingly Peaceful

Watch An Arena Collapse Like A Fiery Mess Of Lincoln Logs

9 years ago

Watch An Arena Collapse Like A Fiery Mess Of Lincoln Logs

Early on Sunday morning, Orlando Amway Arena was demolished in under 20 seconds by 236kg of dynamite. The arena was originally built in 1989 and served as the home for Orlando sports teams for more than 20 years.

Pakistan To Demolish Bin Laden’s Compound

9 years ago

Pakistan To Demolish Bin Laden’s Compound

Andrew Tarantola

I Never Expected A Bridge Demolition Would Look Like This

10 years ago

I Never Expected A Bridge Demolition Would Look Like This

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