i never saw any discussion of the leaning millennium tower so here it is

i never saw any discussion of the leaning millennium tower in san francisco, so i figured i would offer something different to talk about

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A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking — and residents say their multimillion-dollar condos are 'nearly worthless'

Millennium Tower in San Francisco is still sinking and leaning.

But there's finally a bit of good news for residents of the luxury building at 301 Mission Street, which has sunk 17 inches and tilted 14 inches since it was completed in 2008.

Engineers have proposed a fix for the tower's troubles. They want to drill hundreds of steel and concrete "micro piles" (a type of foundation shaped like a pillar) into bedrock, in order to stabilize the tower and prop it back upright, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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how can such a huge frickup like this even happen?

i thought every building going up that high must have a foundation going down and anchored into solid bedrock to prevent something like this from ever happening

here is the story LINK