[DUMBGRUNT]

Maybe the "Fine German Engineering" thing is not working?

"Fine Corinthian Leather" may be a better bet.

[nwrep]

Architect was a woman.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I’ll stick with the crushed velour

[packagingguy]

“In Miami, bedrock is typically found just a few feet below the surface, often around 3 to 4 feet deep, but it can vary depending on the location. The bedrock is primarily composed of Miami limestone, which is part of the Biscayne aquifer.”

DuckDuckGo Beta AI assistant

[PGR88]

barrier islands are large deposits of compressed sand and silt being washed over slowly eroding bedrock, on otherwise unprotected ocean coastline, for thousands or millions of years

Can’t imagine how deep one needs to go with a foundation to find something solid to build a skyscraper upon.

[Jim Noble]

The wise man built his house upon the rock - which excludes Florida.

[Leaning Right]

Could be that the tower is not sinking, but the ground is rising.
🤔

[1Old Pro]

I’d hate to have to pay that special assessment.

[citizen]

"...have sunk by as much as three inches between 2016 and 2023. That includes the Porsche Design Tower, the Ritz-Carlton Residences, and both Trump Towers..."

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There's their out, they can blame Trump's towers...too heavy, inadquate foundation design & construction b/c Orange Man Bad.

[SaveFerris]

The world is rising...?

I don’t know

But I hate it!

[AAABEST]

lol at you thinking Germans build commercial real estate in Miami.

[dfwgator]

[freepersup]

The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood,[2][3] in what is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history.[4][5][6]

The dam was built to serve the growing water needs of the city of Los Angeles, creating a large regulating and storage reservoir that was an integral part of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. It was located in San Francisquito Canyon of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the present day city of Santa Clarita.

However, a defective soil foundation and design flaws led to the dam's collapse just two years after its completion. Its failure ended the career of William Mulholland, the general manager and chief engineer of the Bureau of Water Works and Supply (now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power).[7]

[SGCOS]

…the Porsche building is sinking…

Karma for building an electric car.

[TangoLimaSierra]

End of the click-bait article:

"many newer buildings—like the Porsche Design Tower, which is just 10 years old—naturally sink into the soil years after completion due to their weight."

[hinckley buzzard]

Miami Beach and much of Miami is built on filled in swampland. It settles, slowly, for years. Plus Miami is built on porous limestone bedrock which tends to dissolve over time as groundwater does its thing, which is why Florida has those sinkholes btw, and which also causes buildings to sink into them. The building was probably built fine, but on sinking sand.

[Lockbox]

Well, Porsche’s tend to be marketed toward older gentlemen and to say it nicely there is shrinkage as they age. So maybe the tower’s just emulating its owners.

[EVO X]

Here is the website for anyone interested in taking a look at the pizzazz.

https://pdtowermiami.com/

[Wuli]

Coastal areas usually do not have the bedrock of granite so close to the surface as Manhattan, New York City - one reason Manhattan Island hosts so well so many giant skyscrapers.

[ChildOfThe60s]

One only has to read John D McDonald’s novel “Condominium” to get a picture of the wisdom of erecting tall buildings on Florida’s coasts.

[Nik Naym]

“Vell, vaht is it sinking about?”