Something smells funny in the Cologne City Archive Collapse

The archive was built in the 1970s, and there was initially no clear answer to the question of why it would suddenly collapse.

Eberhard Illner, a former archive employee, told German radio station Deutschlandfunk the collapse was a “foreseeable catastrophe” and that he had noticed cracks in the building’s basement walls.

I wonder what the toll on the archives will be. Original works lost? Only nine people are still reported missing. The images look like an entire city block has imploded.