Imploded.
Wow, the Diagnostic Hospital implosion was big enough news to make CNN video. (Rice reckoning: the horizontal building at top left with all the windows is new Wiess college; the vertical building revealed behind the dust cloud is Sid Rich.)
Ted captured his own video from the event (frame at right), which seems to have drawn a pretty solid crowd to the soccer fields on the south side of campus. (The explosions seem a lot louder from the Rice side of the building, compared with CNN’s video.)
Other coverage: Some photos by Ian Rees, taken from the vantage of the BCM’s Human Genome Sequencing Center down the street.
Still more coverage (6/27): Cherry Demolition has footage of their own; several lovely photos [r2blue,irees] are appearing on Flickr.
(Previously on dsandler.org: Implosion, in which Google Maps points to the wrong building—good thing the demolition team didn’t use it.)
One Response to “Imploded.”
Thanks for linking to my hosted page instead of journal. I made that later in the day to avoid having my photoblog containing personal details blasted everywhere :) I didn’t know about the implosion until the night before; otherwise I would have scouted out a better location that didn’t have a giant crane in the way. I think if I’d taken it from the DeBakey building instead (9 floors), it would have missed the crane. Oh well.
btw, I’m also a PhD student. Biologist trying to become a python/c++ developer. And I also do most of my work on OS X (and also Linux.) I’ll add you to my RSS feed if you don’t mind.
comment posted at 3:06 pm on 26 Jun 2006