[TigerLikesRooster]

[mnehring]

Does this really count as leaning?

[americanophile]

...meanwhile, almost 9 years after 9/11, the skyline of lower Manhattan remains empty.

[OCC]

I saw a tv show on how they built this.... decided to slap a helipad on the roof after the building was almost complete. They are spending a lot of money on some crazy buildings over there.

[jz638]

cantilevered is not the same as leaning. Cool building concept though.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Let's say I'm a banker in a commercial real estate division of an international financial institution.

And let's say a developer comes to me and wants to build a 35 story high rise. Even more interesting, he wants it to lean at an 18 degree angle. And to make things more interesting still, he tells me he wants to build it on sand.

Gee, I think to myself, I wonder if it would be wise to make such a loan? I wonder what the underwriting committee will think? And what will the bank president and the Board of Directors think when they hear of this loan? And what will our investors think of us for having made such a loan.

[Gay State Conservative]

Looks to me as if a bad tornado,cyclone or earthquake could topple that thing.Don't know if such things happen there,but....

[SonOfDarkSkies]

I was watching a TV special on NYC real estate development and the speaker said the reason there were high rises in downtown and mid-town Manhattan (I used to work in high rises in both) and not in that expanse between the two (from, say, the Village to 30th St) was because that was where the bedrock was.

I'm guessing there's no bedrock in Abu Dhabi.

[Oberon]

A great example of “lean manufacturing.”

[Right Wing Assault]

It’s not leaning at all. The floors are level. They should have made them slant 18 degrees, too. That would have been more fun for the tenants.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Clearly intentional.

[seastay]

this ugly eyesore must have cost 10 times as much as a conventional buliding, meanwhile their Palestinian cousins complain to the world they have no money and are poor and downtrodden, and its not any Arabs fault at all for this plight.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Or that flex hose that brings water into a toilet tank.

[ridesthemiles]

Since I am not an engineer:
How many degrees off center can any building get before it tilts & goes DOWN with a big bang?

[baa39]

I remember the charming experience of visiting the small town of Pisa in the Italian Countryside, and slowing meandering up the Tower of Pisa on a late sunny afternoon, a few tourists milling quietly about, awed by the centuries old pillars. Then experiencing the gorgeous surprise of the never-mentioned Pisa cathedral and baptistry right next door. Unique renaissance beauty incomparable to any other buildings on earth. No, sorry, a shiny high-tech Arab monstrosity most definitely does not beat Pisa. And never will.