Death of a Building

Usually we witness the birth of buidings, or at the very least a slow and steady decline to death.
Here a photographer, Christoph Gielen,  discusses witnessing a sudden death (ie blowup demolition) of a failed housing complex.

"What compels me most in the resulting images is the sudden absence of the Whitfield tower and the way the cloud’s shape describes an impact of a large mass hitting the earth. The idea that something so large, so present in the landscape could disappear almost instantly is more interesting to me than documenting its fall frame by frame. I prefer to let the image of the apparently vanished structure conjure up speculation over its former shape, its history and the reasons for its demolition."
more at the NYT