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When demolition and camera-shake combine. Hilton Park Rugby Club in Leigh, Lancashire is being demolished, literally, as we speak. Here is a brand new video showing the work in progress; and apologies for the severe camera shake.

On this side of the Atlantic, demolition contractors are forever scratching around looking for office blocks and toilet blocks to demolish. But, in the US, there seems to be an endless supply of Las Vegas hotels and sporting stadiums that are ripe for the wrecking ball. And here’s the latest; the controlled demolition of the…Read moreRead more

Those readers of a certain age will remember the original Batman TV series (with Adam West as the caped crusader) in which Batman and Robin would occasionally “scale tall buildings” using the tried and tested special effects method of making the floor of the studio look like a wall and laying the camera on its…Read moreRead more

Five-storey building succumbs to top-down demolition using Brokk machines. Brokk, the pioneering manufacturer of remote-controlled demolition machines, brings us this video showing the top-down demolition of a five-storey structure in the US.

Yet ANOTHER time-lapse demolition video Make the most of this post as this is going to be the last time-lapse video for a while….they’re just a bit 2008 now aren’t they?

A nice time lapse video showing the demolition and reinstatement of a toll booth in the US. Interesting to note that they managed to keep the traffic flowing, despite the works:

Here’s a new video showing the demolition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers building close to the famous London Bridge landmark.