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Hammer and shear double as demolition poles as Cali pool comes down. Contractor Choppin Demolition Services describes it as the “granddaddy of all pool demolition projects”. We can’t confirm that but any demolition project in California is immediately of interest. And while we might question the use of the shear and hammer attachments as something […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/19/video-you-know-they-do-more-than-push-right/

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Time-lapse captures textbook Scandinavian demolition. If someone asked you to describe a Scandinavian demolition site, you would probably come up with something just like this. With a light flurry of snow; tidy, well-organised site; Volvo excavator, it is a project straight from demolition central casting. The job is under the control of AF Decom of […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/19/video-af-decom-gets-the-munchies/

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Kyle Field checks out in awesome style. In some ways, it’s a shame that this film didn’t drop just a few days later; because this would be a truly awesome way in which to draw a veil over 2014. The implosion of a portion of the Kyle Field stadium this weekend was an object lesson […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/22/video-epic-stadium-implosion/

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And put up a parking lot. “Don’t it always seem to go,” sang Joni Mitchell. “That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Well, the residents of Pentagon Park are about to find out what they had as the Pentagon Park Tower is being demolished. This excellent drone-shot film (so detailed, it even […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/23/video-they-paved-paradise/

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A very merry Christmas and a safe, happy and prosperous New Year to all the readers of DemolitionNews.com.


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Russians end demolition year with egg on their faceski. It was an opportunity to see out the old year with a spectacular high rise blast for the ages. But good fortune was, apparently, still feeling the effects of its Christmas excesses when Russian engineers hit the plunger on this high rise blast. And, instead of […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/28/video-russian-stand-up-star/

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Curbed magazine has chosen its 10 most aesthetically-pleasing implosions of the year. Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder (which suggests that Piers Morgan’s wife must have very strange eyes indeed). But curbed magazine has pulled together a compilation of the most aesthetically-pleasing demolition blasts of the past 12 months. Regardless […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/29/are-these-the-10-best-blasts-of-2014/

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One of London’s best-loved cinemas faces uncertain future. The Curzon Soho, one of London’s flagship arthouse cinemas, may be knocked down to make way for the Crossrail 2 development. The Shaftesbury Avenue venue was once named the best cinema in London by readers of the listings magazine Time Out, but its reign looks to be […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/30/curtain-could-fall-on-curzon/

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Concrete columns fall as Bat Bridge demolition stays on schedule. We have been following the ongoing demolition of the Bay Bridge – sadly, at a distance – for some months now. So we were delighted to uncover this excellent video that shows the ongoing demolition of the old bridge’s concrete supporting columns.


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/30/video-bay-bridge-update/

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Management buyout for Black Country contractor. The demolition arm of the Black Country-based Humphries Holdings group has been sold to its management by the couple who have run the business for the past 45 years. David Humphries and his wife Elizabeth, part of the four generations to run the Humphries Demolition business since 1919, have […]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2014/12/31/humphries-hand-over/