Raw video captures the final minutes of Rio’s university hospital.
We awoke this morning, bleary-eyed and lightly hungover (well, it is almost Christmas) to find a brief message from Fabio Bruno Pinto to say that his long-awaited implosion of Rio de Janeiro’s University Hospital had gone exactly according to plan and assuring us that he would get us an English-language video later this week.
But impatience is our middle name. And while we are looking forward to seeing the professional footage so see just how it compares to the computer simulation we brought you a few weeks ago, we simply couldn’t wait. And a quick scan of YouTube turned up trumps, allowing us to bring you a very raw (and overlong) clip of the implosion. Quite why the photographer makes us wait until the second minute to fee the block fall is anyone’s guess; but when it does go, it is every bit as spectacular as we had hoped.
