Posted on 11/01/2022 7:32:35 PM PDT by dynachrome
Miami’s Waldorf Astoria residential tower, poised to be South Florida’s tallest skyscraper, is a test case for new techniques meant to enable the more than 1,000-foot tall building to withstand hurricane-force winds and remain stable near sea level.
Developers broke ground on the building’s foundation in downtown Miami in October. The 100-story tower, which resembles a series of glass cubes stacked on top of each other, will feature 205 hotel guest rooms and 360 luxury condo residences. It would be the city’s first supertall structure, and the tallest residential building south of New York City when completed around 2027, according to the development team.
Supertall towers, which architects tend to define as buildings that rise at least 300 meters, or 984 feet, have been common in cities such as New York and Chicago. But no one has succeeded in building one in Miami.
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Right after Ian paid a visit.
Apparently the developers didn’t believe that Florida will be underwater soon due to climate change.
WTF!? Is that what it is supposed to look like?
I wouldn’t have thought Miami had enough earth underneath to ever support a 100 storey building.
This does not sound like a good idea. It seems like something a Sheikh would do in the desert, simply because they can afford it and there is no one around to say no or ‘that’s a crazy idea!’
Looks like a drunk forklift operator stacked a bunch of shipping containers
I agree. It looks a nice building where things went wrong during construction.
“PMG, which is developing the Waldorf tower, said the structure will require Miami’s first tuned mass damper, which is like a pendulum, to be installed at the top of the building to keep it from swaying in the wind.
Developers are also utilizing a specialized technology called deep soil mixing to strengthen the ground beneath it, which they say will cause minimal vibrations to the buildings adjacent during construction.”
Let’s see what the storm surge from a hurricane in that area does some day.
Miami bedrock is porous limestone, which is hard but water soaks through it like a sponge. Ancient reef. I’m sure the engineers know all about the geology, but it does sound a bit dicey. After all underwater limestone dissolves.
The Waldorf building is so heavy and so large that the 150-knot or 200-knot hurricane-strength winds would not affect it, said Mr. Maloney. The building’s floor plates are each around 20,000 square feet, compared with a recent supertall tower PMG built on Manhattan’s West 57th street, the Steinway, where floor plates are closer to 5,000 square feet, Mr. Maloney said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/miamis-first-supertall-tower-breaks-ground-11667307538
The woke jerks at the Wall Street Journal just can't resist injecting "climate change" BS into the story.
Some structural engineer is really going to need to earn his money.
They need to get a reverse osmosis plant going before they start on this project.
Given that nearly the entire state is built on karst geology, unless it’s the Everglades, this is beyond foolish. Karst topography is the equivalent of limestone sugar cookies.
“Miami bedrock is porous limestone, “
They going past the limestone.
“First Category 3 hurricane will knock it over.”
Want to bet?
Looks like many more uses have been found for them.
Still, I keep thinking that the Millennium Tower in San Francisco is just a case of wrong approach, wrong location - in an earthquake zone.
Building such a heavy structure in Miami? Well, get some pro athletes to invest in a condo first before I send my hard earned pesos to buy a spot.
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