World Records
Seattle Kingdome
Seattle, Washington, USA
03.26.2000
Record
The world’s largest structure, by volume (19.821 million cu. m.), to be demolished by explosives.
J.L. Hudson Department Store
Detroit, Michigan, USA
10.24.1998
Records
At 439 ft. tall Hudson is the tallest structural steel building ever imploded.
At 2.2 million square feet, Hudson is the largest single building ever imploded.
Villa Panamericana & Las Orquideas
San Juan, Puerto Rico
08.16.1998
Record
The most buildings shot in a single implosion sequence.
WECT Television Tower
Elizabethtown, North Carolina, USA
09.20.2012
Record
At 2000′, the tallest manmade structure ever felled with explosives.
