Vancouver hotel comes down. Demolition crews are demolishing the hotel portion of Red Lion Hotel in Vancouver. This short but great-looking video captures the action:
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Video – Red Lion roars its last…
Video – Leave it to the professionals…
40-watt club for the terminally dim welcomes first Russian member. There is virtually no need for explanation here. Just take a look at the opening shot of the video below, and you will get a pretty good idea f what is about to transpire. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the oxygen thief hitting…Read moreRead more
Video – The wrecking ball that couldn’t wreck…
Have you ever seen anything more pathetic in your working life. Winter storms buckled and twisted the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, cracking concrete and displacing columns and rendering the entire structure unsafe. And so, Caltrans called in a crane equipped with a three tonne wrecking ball which it intended to drop repeatedly onto…Read moreRead more
Video – Hammond Exchange building imploded…
Controlled explosion fells building in Atlanta. The Hammond Exchange Building on the edge of Dunwoody was imploded two weeks ago with help from 500 pounds of explosives. We have no idea quite how this massive implosion bypassed our news-feed radar at the time but we are grateful to our subscriber Russ Gardiner for pointing out…Read moreRead more
Video – For your viewing pleasure…
The latest (and longest) episode of Demolition TV is here. The all-new episode of Demolition TV is here. Shot at five locations and featuring contributions from (among others) AR Demolition, Maylarch Environmental, Mick George Ltd, Shorts Group and several parts of the BBC, the new episode is our longest (and, in our opinion, best) episode…Read moreRead more
Video – Montana power plant felled…
Brandenburg removes last vestiges of J.E. Corette plant. The J.E. Corette coal-fired power plant in Billings, Montana is fast disappearing. And as these two new films (the first featuring a welcome smidgen of Tom Petty) from demolition giant Brandenburg show, some of the largest parts of the facility are now on the ground: PPL Montana…Read moreRead more
Video – Bratislava building battered…
Time-lapse captures all the high reach action. We can tell you virtually nothing about this video. However, in our determination to feature demolition footage from the four corners of the globe, an opportunity to bring you a film from Bratislava (a first for us) was just too good to pass up:
Video – Downing the dome…
Ron Hull Group machine pulls down glass dome at Queen’s Park Sports Centre. Glass really does make a satisfying sound when it is dropped to the ground in large quantities. So crank up the volume and listen as a pair of excavators pull down the famous glass dome portion of the former Queen’s Park Sports…Read moreRead more
Video – Last orders at Kaier Brewery…
Booze-hounds should look away now. Aside from the demolition of my beloved Upton Park, there are just some buildings that should be beyond the reach of the demolition crews. And, despite having taken a vow of sobriety some years ago myself, I still firmly believe that breweries (and distilleries, for that matter) should be sacred….Read moreRead more
Video – Down she comes….
Former Pitney Bowes building bows out. With one well-placed big bite, an excavator operator fells much of the former Pitney Bowes building in Shelton, Connecticut. Thankfully, a cameraman was on hand to capture the dramatic moment:
