1515 Tower is a former residential high-rise in West Palm Beach, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. Completed in 1974, it was the second tallest building in West Palm Beach with 30 stories and rising 98 metres (321.5 ft).
1515 Tower was heavily damaged during Hurricane Frances

Hurricane Frances

Hurricane Frances was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The system crossing the open Atlantic during mid to late August, moving to the north of the Lesser Antilles while strengthening. Its outer bands affected Puerto...

 and Hurricane Jeanne

Hurricane Jeanne

Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest hurricane in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make landfall in Florida...

 in 2004 and was subsequently vacant. The facade was heavily damaged and on August 1, 2006, the city issued a demolition order. The building was demolished by use of explosives, colloquially called implosion

Building implosion

In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings...

, on Sunday, February 14, 2010. 1515 Tower was the third tallest building in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

to be imploded.