building demolition goes wrong in Vancouver

[tissot]

[video=youtube;G-nYq1ujVsw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-nYq1ujVsw[/video]

[video=youtube;20kfYOoSu0c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kfYOoSu0c[/video]

Found the second video hilarious. I guess Vancouver isn't perfect

 

[ShonTron]

They've both the same building, each screw-up is in order. You can see the hanging street light from the first video in the second one.

 

[ShonTron]

Here's the CBC news item, and two other You Tube videos.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/11/bc-vancouver-demolition-failure.html

The Vancouver Sun (in Vancouver unlike the rest of Anglo Canada, the Sun is the better paper) has a better follow-up. The demolition company, despite giving the spiel about safety, is clearly incompetent.

http://www.vancouversun.com/Vancouver+building+demolition+goes+awry/3142759/story.html

The best part? The building demolished is the former home of the William Davis Centre for Actors Study. That would be William B. Davis, most known as "Cancer Man" in the X-Files.

 

[officedweller]

Here's what's going up in its place:

http://www.jamesschouw.ca/artemisia/

Check out the bizarre floorplan for the last remaining townhouse.

 

[Catapult]

Here's what's going up in its place:

http://www.jamesschouw.ca/artemisia/

Check out the bizarre floorplan for the last remaining townhouse.

Wow - that's got to be the worst floor plan ever.

 

[Second_in_pie]

You think so? It does strike me as very much outside the box and perhaps not the best choice for inner city, but I wouldn't call it inherently bad.

 

[neuhaus]

there should be criminal charges, just like those collapsing cranes in New York City.