In The Wire, how did they film the scene where the Franklin Terrace towers are collapsing?

Did they actually collapse an old building for the sake of the series? Or did they film the collapse of a different building that was going to be destroyed anyway?

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Best Answer

It's CGI. Quality/grain of the linked video make it look more real but I remember watching this and thinking "this is some serious Dr WHO graphic". The building is too uniform, clean and repeatable to be real. Real buldings have some blemishes, stains or something "odd" in them that is a sign of life in and around it.

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Where were the Towers in the Wire?

Franklin Terrace is a mixed-use high-rise public housing complex comprised of six buildings located on Fremont Avenue.

What were the towers in the wire?

The housing blocks, Franklin Terrace Towers as they are called, had provided the backdrop to several key scenes in the preceding series, constituting the central pillar of drug dealer Avon Barksdale's West Baltimore empire.

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