Drone captures overnight bridge demolition. Mendrisio is a municipality in the district in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It is best-known as the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian-speaking Switzerland (USI). But, for a moment, it will be better known as the origin of this great new drone video…Read moreRead more
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Video – Swiss bridge eaten alive…
Video – Out with the old…
New York bridge removed and replaced. Watch a Port Authority time-lapse of the demolition/reconstruction of the Travis Spur Rail Bridge, part of Staten Island’s Goethals Bridge Replacement Project.
Video – Demolition TV Special…
A fond farewell to the Boleyn Ground, the grand old lady of London’s East End. With the enormous help of Rye Demolition – we have created a Demolition TV special on the impending demolition of the Boleyn Ground, former home of West Ham United (incidentally, the greatest team in all of Christendom). As a lifelong…Read moreRead more
Video – Up close with latest CDI blast…
Harllee Branch implosion revisited. Earlier this week, we brought you some early footage that captured the explosive demolition of a 305 metre tall stack in Georgia. Now, thanks to our buddy Joe Vendetti at Envirocon, we can bring you some even better footage of the demolition, including a close-up of the CDI blast:
Video – Oklahomo bridge falls…
Washita River Bridge meets explosive end. This explosive demolition of a bridge spanning the Washita River actually happened earlier this year. But this film of the blast proved so impressive that it was featured in the annual GoPro video awards. US-177 Washita River Bridge Demolition Carter County, OK from ODOT on Vimeo.
Video – Clearing the way for a giant…
Time-lapse captures preparatory works ahead of New York skyscraper. New York has no shortage when it comes to skyscrapers. But by 2020, the city will boast yet another as the 427 metre One Vanderbilt will have taken its place alongside Grand Central Terminal. Upon completion, the 57-storey, 150,000 square metre skyscraper will be the second…Read moreRead more
Video – German bridge blast…
Weekend implosion fells bridge over Stuttgart autobahn. A footbridge on Germany’s Autobahn near Stuttgart was demolished early Saturday (October 15) morning to make way for a new stretch of highway with extra driving lanes. This video captures the explosive action:
Video – A drone in Paradise…
Fly-through captures DSM hard at work in native Birmingham. A few months ago, we were fortunate enough to be invited to the Paradise development where DSM was reshaping a key part of the UK’s second city. That visit became part of our first-ever edition of Demolition TV. Now, a drone pilot has taken a fly-bast…Read moreRead more
Video – Georgia peach…
Text-book implosion fells one of world’s tallest chimneys. With a height of 305 metres (1,001 feet), the GA Power Harllee Branch Plant ranked as one of the tallest chimneys in the world. But the stack came down this weekend in a text-book blast that landed the mammoth structure precisely in the drop zone as crowds…Read moreRead more
Video – Broadway Bridge finally succumbs…
Bridge that withstood blast pulled down. A barge-mounted crane finally finished what a team of explosive engineers couldn’t; and sent the near 100-year old Broadway Bridge into the water. As we reported a few days ago, an implosion did a pretty good job of kicking the paint off the Arkansas bridge whilst applying a liberal…Read moreRead more
