The Leaning Tower of New York

Little trivia about... The other famous leaning tower. Pisa has a very soft soil, and there are other 2 leaning bell towers. One is even more tilted than the tower of Pisa. Although much smaller, its tilt is quite strong imho.

https://www.pisatoday.it/cronaca/torri-pendenti-pisa.html

The cathedral of Pisa is slightly leaning as well. If you look at the base just above the steps on its side facing the lawm, you can see the bricks are misaligned

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by ipnon » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 3:01 PM UTC

This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 3:08 PM UTC

galleywest200 wrote: post #5

thisismytest wrote: post #4

Has any skyscraper actually just tipped over?

Not that I can see, but the Citicorp Center in NYC could have if not for emergency actions that were taken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_cr...

Re: The Leaning Tower of New York

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Post by charliebwrites » Sat, Feb 08, 2025, 3:08 PM UTC

Sounds like Millenium Tower in SF

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/millennium-...