While such a crash would cause great damage to the building, the design is such that the building would not topple.
Despite the implosion, parts of the old resort still stood, due to the building not falling into its footprint, but toppling into its parking lot.
Seen from below, it's as though a 17-story building were toppling on deck.
Somewhere a building toppled and crashed.
Around her, up and down Market Street, walls, chimneys, and entire buildings were toppling.
Other men did not cry out, nor did the buildings on the Street of Smiths sway and topple.
There are lateral shifts in the earth and rifts open up; trees and even steel-frame buildings topple.
It looks as if a whole building had toppled and sunk into the ground as a result of some natural or supernatural disaster.
Ancient buildings toppled in the city, cut through scores of times by tangled thread.
In some cities, taller buildings can topple over sideways that can crush other monsters, killing them instantly.