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Famous Glasgow Slum Meets 600 Lbs. of Explosives
The '60s-era Red Road Flats complex was once seen as the solution to urban overcrowding in Scotland; now it's turning to rubble.
The Red Road Flats complex was once seen as the solution to urban overcrowding in Glasgow, Scotland. On Sunday, part of it became rubble.
The first of the eight buildings in the Flats development underwent a controlled demolition that left all but its base in flinders. Machines will remove what's left of it in the months to come. The remaining condemned properties – which at the time of their construction in the late '60s were the tallest apartment buildings in Europe – will suffer similar implosions until nothing remains standing in 2017.