If 2 office buildings go down in a cloud of dust in what looks like a forest, will anybody see it? In Houston, certainly — and so many onlookers have been kind enough to upload their own demolition videos, too. So here you go: vids of this weekend’s Controlled Demolition implosion of 2 unloved former Hewlett Packard office buildings at the future Lone Star College University Park campus near Hwy. 249 and Louetta. A much longer video from Hewlett Packard here features details and interviews.
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- Lone Star Campus Building Implosion [HP Broadband]
- Previously on Swamplot: The Coming Local HP Implosion
Videos: YouTube users justthompson, drjjr, cmedlin, mmjaco, jordanmarie9
These are the first two buildings that IAN+A designed for Compaq way back when – and my first two high-rise buildings. Sad to see them go. I guess this means I can get rid of the drawings now.
Aww @Tbarrow,
don’t get rid of your dwgs.
Rather attach one of these demolition videos and save for posterity –
or for when, one day, you’re feeling just too full-of-yourself as an architect and need to be taken down a peg!
Fitting to watch that almost 10 years after 9-11.