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Default Demolition ooops

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Andy Dingley writes:
On 4 Aug, 17:51, Adam Aglionby wrote:
Obviously roofing grade concrete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diZU4bfxrKw


Flour mill. They're always difficult to demolish, as they're so
strongly constructed. Must be one of the few buildings where you could
tip it on its side without it immediately self-dismantling under
gravity.

One does wonder though just WTF the demolition engineer thought he was
doing with such asymmetry though?


I was searching for one I recall in London -- think it was this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsePUn5-88c
Next morning, full page ads in many of the daily papers, with a
super cool bloke standing in the foreground smoking a cigar, with
the half demolished leaning building in the background, and the slogan
"Happyness is a cigar called Hamlet". You had to admire the speed
that Hamlet and their advertising agency got that into print.

Hamlet produced some wonderful adverts in their day, such as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYMID5qCdE

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