The first ever explosive demolition in Athens

31 May 2023

Archive footage from 1995 shows the dramatic moment a 20-storey city-ccentre building was brought down in a controlled explosion, causing a giant cloud of demolition dust to engulf the city of Athens, Greece.

How the event was reported at the time:

“A 20-storey building collapsed in a pile of rubble in Athens on Sunday (May 21) in the first-ever demolition using explosives in the Greek city.

British company Controlled Demolition used 900 sticks of dynamite to level the former Red Cross building.

The…

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