For the true power of this material lies not so much in what it shows -- we've seen film footage, fictional and real, of airplane crashes and imploding buildings before -- than in what we do not actually see: the death, despair and suffering that took place beyond our sight in those planes and buildings.
Unable to implode the building because of the building density of the area, E/R Partners began an eighteen month, US$23 million process to dismantle the building.
Finished in late 2001, after the technology sector imploded, the building, which cost about $100 million to build, never could find a tenant for its 17 floors.
The Spurs' effort in Game 4 of their first-round series against the Grizzlies looked a lot like a building imploding — it might have been scheduled (Duncan is, after all, 35) but nonetheless startling — and then there was the small matter of United States District Judge Susan Richard Nelson's complete demolition of the N.F.L.'s lockout.
Methods for demolishing, imploding or otherwise subtracting building material are not among the essential skills imparted to architects in training.
The shape of one building imploded in 1994 was still visible in the rubble (right).
"The way the building imploded after the explosion, it must have happened on the bottom floor," said Carmen Vangas-Rosa, an employee at the Spanish Christian Church located in one of the buildings that collapsed.
I looked up, trying to photograph the building, and realized it was imploding.
When damaged those buildings eventually plummeted to the ground, imploding in upon themselves.
Maybe I did force global inflation higher, and global wages too, to the point of imploding the U.S. banking Ponzi scheme (and the U.S. dollar) faster than Building 7 on 9/11.
