Few will shed a tear as Tulip Hotel falls. A closed-down hotel in the Cape Town City Business District, the Tulip Hotel and Conference Centre, was demolished earlier today to make way for a new development in this sought after area. Building plans for a new hotel have already been approved, and demolition to the…Read moreRead more
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Video – Fitting end for Cape Town’s worst hotel…
Breaking News – Manhattan rocked by building collapse…
One person seriously injured as building collapses in NYC. A building under demolition partially collapsed yesterday on the West Side of Manhattan, injuring a construction worker. It happened at about 2:35 p.m. at a 4-story garage at 622 West 57th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues. Fire department spokesman Brian Norton says the worker rode…Read moreRead more
Video – Philly ‘ice palace” comes down…
Demolition crews finally get to grips with structure encased in ice. After mesmerizing amateur photographers and worrying neighbours for a week, a Philadelphia building left encased in ice after a two-alarm blaze last week has been torn down. Surrounded by heavy metal walls, a backhoe clawed away at the insides of the Locust Medical Center…Read moreRead more
Video – Hancock Group chewing a toffee…
High reach munches on Everton building. This is one of those very rare occasions in which it is best to turn the volume down or off altogether as the dreamy commentary on this video quickly descends from faintly trippy to druggy and stupefying. Still, of you’re willing to embrace the spaced-out voiceover, then the footage…Read moreRead more
Video – Norwegian bridge imploded…
Crossing damaged by landslide dropped using explosives. Engineers have demolished the southern lane of the Skjeggestad bridge in Vestfold, Norway. It follows the partial collapse of the bridge a few weeks ago. Norway’s Public Roads Administration described the demolition as technically challenging, however it reportedly went to plan.
Video – Bay bridge progressing well…
Detailed video update shows demolition is bang on schedule. The distinctive S Curve of the old Bay Bridge are no more as demolition continues to progress. This latest video update provides a superb overview of the project to date and reveals plans to remove the bridge foundations by explosive means.
Video – DSM does the double…
Leicester’s New Walk Centre destroyed in double-blast. DemolitionNews reports.
Video – Bucket protection reinvented…
Form meets function as excavator buckets are made demolition ready. If there are two things in the world that excavator buckets hate most, it is impact and abrasion; demolition delivers both – quite literally – by the bucketful. Hidden rebar encased in jagged concrete grind, wear and eat away at buckets. And all the Hardox…Read moreRead more
Video – Dock gets knocked…
Hyundai excavator and Prodem hammer tackle 100-year old dock demolition. London’s docks were built to last. The very hub of the British Empire, they were the terminus for a network of trade routes that spanned the globe. During the height of World War II, they withstood a constant barrage of attacks by the German Luftwaffe….Read moreRead more
Video – A Grand outcome…
Full story of the demolition of quake-hit New Zealand landmark. It was the tallest building in Christchurch, New Zealand. But when the devastating earthquake hit in February 2011, the Grand Chancellor Hotel was rendered unsafe and marked for demolition. This following video charts the painstaking demolition, and its place as the figurehead of the city’s…Read moreRead more
