This is the moment a controlled explosion to take down six enormous tower blocks in Glasgow went wrong.
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The six blocks, which were brought down as part of the city’s regeneration plans, were supposed to be demolished in one go.
Glasgow’s Housing Association will now have to complete the demolition at a later date.
Controversial plans to knock the towers over came to a head on Sunday (NZT) when they were readied for an explosive ending.
It was originally hoped that the demolition of the flats would feature in the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 – but the plans were scrapped due to safety fears.
However, two of the Red Road flat building proved to be a greater pillar of strength than expected.
Hundreds of families that live in the surrounding area have now been left stranded after the botched demolition left the remaining two towers teetering on the brink of collapse.
Another tweet said: “The Red Road Flats “Fail” has made it to the Australian news channels and they are looooving it”.
Glasgow’s iconic multi-storey Red Road flats were brought down as thousands of people watched – from a safe distance – today. Two of the original eight 30-story blocks, built as a “scheme in the sky” to house over 5000 residents, were levelled in controlled explosions in 2012 and 2013.
Professor Lynn Abrams said: ‘Red Road polarises people. To others, however, it was home’.
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They found that the vast majority of high rise tenants at the time were said to be satisfied with their new homes.
