96:. The Tunghsing Building was completely destroyed although most buildings near it were undamaged. It was the only building in Taipei to be completely destroyed by the quake, and all 87 Taipei fatalities were residents of the building. After the bottom stories folded, the rest of the building collapsed and fell, crushing the nearby Haomen building (豪門世家). A fire from a gas leak was doused with water. Over 100 people were rescued from the wreckage. The two brothers Sun Chi-kuang and Sun Chi-fong were rescued from the rubble almost 130 hours after the earthquake, having survived by eating rotten apples and drinking their own urine. Several of their family members died in the disaster. The building's collapse made more than 250 people homeless.
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case was that building codes were not yet well developed at the time of construction. The case was finally decided by the
Supreme Court on October 3, 2014, with an award of NT$ 330 million to the residents. As the defendants involved were either dead or companies who had no assets, the residents were unlikely to receive any payout. The cause of the collapse was determined to be a design flaw due to underestimating the building's weight by 18 percent.
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Tunghsing Building was a 12-story building started in 1982 and completed in 1984, with two underground stories. The architect was Chang Tung-Hsin (張宗炘). It was a mixed-use building including a bank, apartments, and a hotel, the Sungshan Hotel (松山賓館). Some later media reports assumed the
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of inadequate design of the building and asked for NT$ 2.5 billion compensation. Hung Kuo group denied being involved in the construction and stated that they had taken over the construction company Hung Gu
Construction (鴻固營造) only after the design was completed. A difficulty in assessing the
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