Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing Engulfed by Fire!

February 10, 2009 · Filed Under Architecture Rumbling · 8 Comments 
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Yesterday was the end of Lunar New Year, unfortunately it ended with an unforgettable celebration where the 40-story luxury hotel in central Beijing known as the Mandarin Oriental engulfed in massive fire – yes, it was massive, the top of the building exploded with a big bang as fire consumes the entire structure.

According to an eye witness via CNN citizen reporters:

The fire reached past the 30th floor, but did not spread to any adjacent buildings. The hotel is next to a newly constructed tower for China Central Television (CCTV), but no one has moved into that building either. The blaze erupted in the final hours of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration as people set off fireworks across the city.

“Snow-like ashes fell as far as [half a mile] from the building and smoke eclipsed the full moon,” Xinhua reported of the blaze in the capital’s central business district.

And I googled for ‘Mandarin Oriental Hotel China After’ and found the following image.

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After the Inferno, image source and copyright: The Jakarta Post

Surprisingly the building is still standing, isn’t that funny? Consider the fact that the entire building was engulfed in fire and the top of the building exploded sending debris all over the city. Whereas Building 7, also known as WTC7 (with image of the building collapsing) was the third skyscraper in the world to be reduced to rubble on 911, the other two being Tower 1 an 2 of WTC. WTC7 wasn’t hit by a plane, was not engulfed in inferno, and no explosion or fire from or within the building yet it collapsed into heaps of rubble.

The more I think about this ’structural failure’ thing, the more I believe this entire 911 incident is nothing more than a US government conspiracy by the Bush regime, shall we say “License to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and possibly Iran?”

Perhaps the Chinese have leapfrogged the US in term of building and structural engineering? I don’t think that is possible in another 100 years!

Is the moon landing another American conspiracy? The American was caught off guard when China announced to the world their first manned mission, and 2024 as the date of China’s first moonwalk. I am puzzled by the need for America to revisit the moon before the year 2024, before China. Not to mention the Blueprints and design and development drawings of the machines (Apollo spacecraft) involved are missing. Apollo 11 data tapes containing telemetry and the high quality video (before scan conversion) of the first moonwalk are missing. Source: Wikipedia and Sydney Morning Herald. Another Hoax? Hopefully it isn’t!

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Billboard Advertising Advertisement on Building

May 16, 2007 · Filed Under Architecture Matters · 2 Comments 
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Billboard Advertisement on Buildings

There are literally thousand of ways to demolish a building but this could be the one and only in the world – demolishing a building with wind power. Well, not really demolished but rather a collapse due to structural failure.

It all begins when a mobile phone company decided to place a huge billboard at the top of a multi-storied building; the hoarding proved to be too heavy for the structure and was destabilized by 10 miles per hour wind. There are no casualties as the authority evacuated the building when it show signs of cracks.

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