[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hotel "Timberrrrrrrr!"

[BubbaJunebug]

I saw that appt building in shanghai last year just after it fell around mid june

[Gaffer]

Damn!....how’d they get away with pouring just a 1 foot footer?

[CalvinCalvin]

That picture is of Riverside Lotus in Minhang, Shanghai. I lived one block away from this location. (See the pink building in the background on the right? Other side of that residential development.)

It’s a residential complex, one building of several. As a rule urban Chinese don’t buy houses they buy apartments.

I was woken up by the sound of it falling over. It sounded more like a long roll of thunder- there had been thunderstorms through the night but this went on way too long which is what caught my ear.

It’s entirely possible that this hotel was built properly in just 6 days. It’s NOT possible that it was built in 6 days using Chinese construction managers, and quite likely that plenty of the actual construction crew was not mainland Chinese.