Apocalypse Beijing
- Started
- Last post
- 29 Responses
- TheBlueOne
The yet unopened luxury hotel in beijing just went poof...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-…
"
AdvertisementFirefighters have been battling a blaze at the yet to be opened Mandarin hotel. The skyscraper in Beijing is thought to have been set alight by a stray firework set off for China's Lantern Festival.
"The luxury hotel was due to open later this year in a complex which also houses the new headquarters of the main Chinese TV company."
- uberdesigner0
cool
- TheBlueOne0
I'll just timeline myself then....
- you posted better pics thoughbrandelec
- fuck you ;) i posted videobolus
- I posted a link to a video!TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
I think I had snappier headline copy on my post anyway,,,
- bolus0
I hereby endorse this thread due to its better title
you failed to mention the architect though
- Technical Batesolebrandelec
- are those fireworks?uberdesigner
- Lol, Batesole. Love it!odinie
- Nairn0
Fuck me, they's some beautiful images.
- Horp0
So let me get this straight: this apocalypse we've all been warned about for 2000 years or more, its actually just a hotel in Beijing that got hit by a firework?
I bet all them Revelationist Christians feel proper silly now eh?
- bliznutty0
its like nine eleven times one thousand
that's right! - nine-hundred and eleven thousand
- uberdesigner0
why are they setting off fireworks right next to buildings?
- The_Lone_Ranger0
Rem Koolhaas must be pissing himself
- Its the engineers and construction that will be quids in.Horp
- No, he means that Koolhaas loves this shit.waterhouse
- CALLES0
godzilla up to npoooo good
- mg330
- GeorgesII0
wow, thats fucked up,
at least it wasn't open yet, because the death toll could have been massive,conspiracy theorist will go nuts over this one
- why? what's the conspiracy?TheBlueOne
- The Carlyle Group has a match-box factory in China.Corvo2
- its simpler than that, this tower burned for hours and didn't fall, the metal didn't melt, blah blah blah,.....GeorgesII
- GeorgesII you're an idiot with absolutely no pointbliznutty
- Good point, GeorgesIIstyleplus
- bliz if you can't see my point, you are the fool, a building that burner for hours without falling is the ultimate proofGeorgesII
- you have no point - no building has ever fallen from fire alonebliznutty
- steel does not melt at the temperature of fire - period.bliznutty
- lolz, bliznutty.mtgentry
- How do you melt steel if you dont use fire? Ovens?odinie
- waterhouse0
Update for interested parties:
- doesnotexist0
glad it wasn't the building next to it