[Faline]

A company in Japan has come up with a new way of demolishing high-rise buildings in densely built-up areas, as an alternative to using wrecking balls or explosives.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.

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[Bouncer]

Did these guys ever think about over engineering a solution? Must be prohibitively expensive and looks to take far too long in bringing a building down.

[kellyhound]

cool

[Sharon]

Cool but not as fun as demolition balls and explosives

[sassieroses]

[zinchenko]

So they make buildings like a penis now? When you want them they go up, but when you don't want them they shrink.

[AmericanIllusions]

These guys are 30 years ahead of us.

[Insideoutbodies]

let them play

[ices]

Too expensive.

The only way it would be applied here in the west is if it got cheaper and when a client wanted to erect a building in a place which needs redevelopment.