This is some very well shot footage of the eight 375-foot decommissioned cooling towers at Cottam Power Station in North Nottinghamshire, England being demolished simultaneously with a half ton of explosives. The coal-powered plant operated for 51 years and supplied power to some 3.7 million UK homes. Unsurprisingly, the demolition

Because demolition isn’t for everyone, this is a video of two boys attempting to remove the railing of an old deck when one boy loses his hammer and gets hit in the head with the handle. Luckily for him, it wasn’t the business end of the hammer. Still, I’m not

This is a video of a man demolishing an old brick building in the rain (hardcore!) when the chimney falls on him, presumably because he demolished whatever was holding the chimney up. Obviously, there was cause and effect at play here. That’s an important thing to remember whenever you’re doing

Because what are big brothers for if not almost getting you killed, this is a video of a kid bringing down a healthy part of an abandoned building after removing enough bricks from a pillar while (I assume, based on my own relationship) his brother films. That, wow — that

This is a video of the controlled demolition of the old Tappan Zee Bridge in Terrytown, New York as executed by Controlled Demolition, Inc. in 2019. Such precision — it just falls straight down. I wonder what they charged for that job. Because I would have done it for way

This is a drone video of the simultaneous demolition of four cooling towers at the former Rugeley Power Station in Staffordshire, England, having ceased its coal-burning operations some five years ago. The area will now be converted to a residential neighborhood, where children will grow up not knowing that their