Would NOT want to be anywhere near those things if a good quake happens.
This building is a colossal eyesore in the SF skyline! It looks like a gigantic glass-covered penisI It is completely out of scale with the rest of the city. Another Liberal disgrace in the city of my birth. Austin Powers would say “It’s a Big Dick!”
Engineers who have examined the damage say the broken glass indicates the facade is separating from the building itself.
So not only is the bldg sinking and tilting, it looks like it may split in two.
Another episode of “Engineering Catastrophes”?
What a pane!........................
Who is John Galt?
If it’s cracked it is obviously not tempered glass, at least the type I’m familiar with. Tempered doesn’t crack it shatters into a thousand pieces.
The millennium tower, the salesforce tower and the new transportation center are all showing some signs of failure or at least manufacturing defects - they sure do know how to build things out there - Wouldn’t want to be anywhere near downtown SF when an earthquake hits thats for sure.
Chinese-made glass? And maybe Chinese-made glass that is labelled “tempered”, but really isn’t tempered at all.
It’s bert’s fault
Is the building settling? Lots of loose ground around there, from thousands of years of quakes and building on fill.
I dislike the current trend of skyscrapers being a sort of vertically-oriented amorphous blob. There’s no compelling functional reason for it and the aesthetics are not great either, they’re just doing it because they can. That building will look horribly dated in a decade, like all those pink granite towers from the 80’s did.
Not a problem. Just have the super-genius Elon Musk dude go over there and do some of his tunnelly majick and put a few bags of concrete in the strategic places. After all, its just another engineering problem. /s
I once met a guy who installs windows on skyscrapers in New York. He said he makes a LOT of money for it. Whatever they pay, it wouldn’t be enough for me to do that job!
Concrete doesn’t ‘bend’ or ‘give’ ... at a certain point it ‘explodes’...
Salesforce Tower
https://www.concreteconstruction.net/projects/commercial-industrial/salesforce-tower_o
Once completed, this 61-story, 1,070-foot skyscraper will have used close to 100,000 cubic yards of concrete. For the mat foundation, more than 130 ready-mix concrete trucks from Cemex plants in the San Francisco region performed an 18-hour pour to supply 7,300 of the approximately 12,000 cubic yards of concrete required for the job. This was the second largest mat pour in the history of the city.
“The 58-story tower has settled over 18 inches on one side and is also leaning by 14 inches, according to recent reports.(snip)”
That’s why I had a soil test done before having my house built...so that we’d know what kind of foundation to design. Surprised they didn’t consider it (or ignored it) for these buildings.
...and no, my house is still not ‘leaning’