Monday, March 02, 2009

Before and After at CCTV Beijing, China

I just thought I'd share a before and after shot of the building that burned down during the Lantern Festival fireworks celebration this past month. I think it shows why it's a good idea that most big cities ban the use of fireworks within city limits! You may need to click on the photos to enlarge them to see the major differences.

Before



After

Pretty vivid reminder to be careful on the 4th of July! ;-)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what a mess. what a nice bilding S T E B

Rodney Surber said...

Hope no one got hurt .But if it was going to burn that one there was all ready leaning looks like they got lucky to me in a way..

Thunder said...

STEB - The first photo is the one you took with Jivuel's camera!

Rat Man - The leaning tower is actually designed that way. I think I have some pictures of it in an earlier post, it's the CCTV tower. They also call it "The Pants" building, and the one that burned was called "Under Pants".