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To add on, Chicago and New Orleans are both built on swamps, and the outer edges of New York are filled in -- making land for cities isn't the issue with the to
by was_boring 10y ago
To add on, Chicago and New Orleans are both built on swamps, and the outer edges of New York are filled in -- making land for cities isn't the issue with the tower.
- Animats 10y agoThe tallest buildings in Chicago have foundations drilled down to bedrock. The Sears Tower (now Willits Tower) is built on bedrock. The Trump Tower [1] has pilings down to bedrock. The John Hancock building has foundations down to bedrock, even though they had to go down almost 200 feet.[2] How unusual is 83 floors in earthquake country without foundations down to bedrock? [1] http://faculty.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/4433/trumptowechicago.pdf http://faculty.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/4433/trump... [2] http://khan.princeton.edu/khanHancock.html http://khan.princeton.edu/khanHancock.html
- vacri 10y agoAs an aside, the land in New Orleans is so flat that the zoo has a 28' hill donated by a benefactor, "so that the children of New Orleans can know what a hill is like" according to the plaque next to it. And when I visited, the kids were going nuts over this little hillock, running up and careening down it, giggling.