[Professional Engineer]

Where and when was this collapse? Was it earthquake related?

The building was built first, then the excavation for the parking garage started. Canal and rain soaked earth on one side and a void on the other. Nature stepped in.

[rolling_stone]

also the round pilings used in it were hollow, not filled with steel and concrete as they should have been there is a long article on it somewhere on the net

how would you like to be living in one of the other sister buildings? lol...I think they tore them all down but don't remember

[rolling_stone]

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/13-story-buliding-collapse-china.shtml

[gleeaikin]

My first thought was, what kind of idiot doesn’t excavate for the parking garage and then build up from there. The link supplied by rolling stone has lots of interesting info.