the shocking demolition of 15 skyscrapers simultaneously in China

After an operation that lasted several days, the demolition of 15 skyscrapers simultaneously in Kunming City, China. The video footage at the moment is truly shocking.

The huge towers were part of one of these urban megaprojects that tend to come to a screeching halt.

Based on information from Taiwan News which spreads Gizmodo, the company started work in 2011, but two years later it went bankrupt, which is why it was unable to complete the project.

In fact, they report that only four of the total could be delivered to their owners. The others were half finished, they were uninhabitable and over the years they deteriorated.

The spectacular explosion

One need only look at the footage from the event on August 27 to realize that the explosion itself only lasts a few seconds.

But behind there is a preliminary work of days which requires, for example, to flood the foundations with rainwater and evacuate the neighbors neighboring neighborhoods.

Anyway, the demolition it was not so successful as expected. It happens that at the end of the explosions one of the towers is still steeply inclined next to.

Context in China

This is not the first time that China has carried out massive and simultaneous blasting of buildings.

For example, in 2017 they destroyed no less than 36 skyscrapers in a controlled operation that lasted barely 20 seconds.

Many also remember that occasion when they decided demolish a viaduct in record time with 116 excavators at the same time.