Saturday, July 19, 2008

So Much for Blowing Up a Building the Old Way

I still remember when they imploded the old Kingdome Stadium in March 2000. We had front row seats downtown at The Harbor Club and witnessed the perfectly-timed demolition of Seattle's old Mariners' Stadium to make room for the new Safeco Stadium. Although it went down perfectly, it still left a lot of dust and debris all over the downtown area for months.



I was just reading about a new approach to demolition in Japan: They take it out one floor at a time... starting from the bottom up!

Incredible to watch and you can read more about it HERE on Freshome.com.

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