skyscraper on fire in beijing

news article

the building isn't populated, afaik. it was still under construction:

amazing. hope no one is hurt, but that was great footage. I wonder what all the mini explosions are from.

i used to work for the madarin oriental in Miami :o

IDМ version of the wicker man

  thanks robert moses said:

I wonder what all the mini explosions are from.

the PLA executing all the construction workers no doubt

one fireman dead apparently, but that is an amazing sight.

ps that was a flawless post chaosmachine. embedded video, link and pics/relevant info. well done.

Awesome footage. It's like a volcano.

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unfinished Beijing hotel catches fire

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hotel caught fire Monday night after being showered with a burst of fireworks.

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The hotel, due to open this year, lies just north of Chinese Central Television's striking new headquarters building, also nearing the end of construction.

yeah, seems like it wasn't the CCTV building, thankfully. The CCTV building is beautiful (and IDM)

since it's still standing after burning for so long, it proves that the WTC towers were demolished.

what a wakeup into a new day video for me... checked out others on youtube as well....

  azatoth said:

since it's still standing after burning for so long, it proves that the WTC towers were demolished.

lolz

the pictures and video look so beautiful they seem like they would have to be a combo of CGI and paintings, fucking insane

  azatoth said:

since it's still standing after burning for so long, it proves that the WTC towers were demolished.

it only proves WTC7 was :) not towers 1 & 2

after all WTC7 was the steel framed first building ever to fall from fire damage alone.

the statistical improbability of such an event has caused me zero curiosity.

looks like blade runner

  xxx said:

Goddamn, it seems as though they built it out of firecrackers, kerosene, and dry grass.

heh .. pretty much .. didn't know concrete and stell could burn so well ... could have been the bamboo scaffolding .. that would account for both the fuel for the blaze and the popping sound heard

.. maybe insurance job eh .. ?? ... construction boom on the wane .. creditors at the gates .. quick cash needed ...

The footage reminds me of the opening sequence in Blade Runner.

this fell in free fall collapse and was on fire for 5 hours(wtc7)-

this did not fall or collapse and was on fire for much longer(beijing)-

goddam american buildings are built out of balsa wood, cost cutting assholes!

  patternoverlap said:

The footage reminds me of the opening sequence in Blade Runner.

lol look at the post above delets

  Z_B_Z said:

  patternoverlap said:

The footage reminds me of the opening sequence in Blade Runner.

 

lol look at the post above delets

Yeah, I'm slow.

kinda looks like this

look at delets too ... it's awesome ...

kinda reminds me of blade runner

eat my ass ludd

too bad, it looked like an awesome building