Seatbelts for couch potatoes? Bedside airbags?
Pay per view with inside and outside views? Plus a toilet cam to gauge the angle of the dangle...
What a bust. I can’t believe anybody’s a tenant in there anymore.
The Architect Sketch in real life.
Nobody will have the guts to order its destruction before it falls and I don't see any engineering solutions being implemented in time either.
A perfect shelter for the ‘homeless’.
Looks like we’re dealing with “experts” again,as the article states. Waiting for the first expert to blame....climate change!
Put all the homeless on the high side to level it again.
Somebody doing the earthquake prayer dance 24/7....
So the city knows this thing is leaning. If it falls tomorrow how liable is the city?
Anyone else pause the video when they showed the graph? Looks like over 1.5” of settling since January of this year. Whatever was going on in July and August had it sinking at a pretty good rate. The spread of readings means the sinking is not uniform - adding stresses... I’m not a building/civil engineer but...this does not look good. It looks like it is going to need significant intervention/remediation or it is going to break up and come down.
What a bunch of dodos.
They still use toilets in SF?
The Empire State building was built in 1930, without all the hi tech tools that these architects had available to them.
That’s a true engineering marvel.
Crooked towers for crooked libtards 🤪
Seems fitting.
I am not a structural engineer or a lawyer but I do know that if this building comes down and people are killed there are going be criminal charges.
They know the building has structural damage and the fixes are not fixing anything. It should be condemned and it should be brought down. Believe me, it will be cheaper in the long run then the civil actions that will occur if it comes down on its own.
I doubt this building would withstand a major earthquake.
I remember reading about this place years ago. I wonder what their occupancy rate is now and whether any of the current occupants have had any success in legal action.
Here is a very understandable engineering discussion of the construction of the Millenium Tower. Fascinating and elucidating of what is involved. The building had already sunk 16 inches by 2016 when the public first learned about it. Many other projects are also using water drawdown wells in the area (common practice as described in the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY
Always comes to mind that this area is full of filled in bay after the big earthquake way back. At a sandy beach- watch the water come up and then recede and “dry”— then put your hand down on the surface press down a little and wiggle your hand. The soil becomes liquidified, and like goo- in short will not support weight.
These buildings— given enough subsurface shaking as is commonly seen in that area of CA— well, they’d lean and fall. Just a thought.
Phoenix doesn’t get much in the way of earthquakes. We also don’t have a lot of huge skyscrapers, I am told they obstruct the view of the mountains.
Although the old New York was a grand thing, I think the diminishing returns on the value of tall buildings kicks in earlier than city planners are willing to admit.
Just waiting for someone to find the section of the Build Back Better legislation that has the US taxpayer covering all the costs of this “crisis”.
Sounds like a joke, but I don’t hear anyone laughing.