"The tilt of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has deepened as engineers work to reverse lean"
From the New York Post, June 11:
It’s the leaning tower of San Francisco.
The Bay Area’s 545-foot-tall Millennium Tower has only continued to tilt further and sink deeper west in spite of architects’ best efforts to steady the ritzy building.
The multimillion-dollar-per-unit tower is leaning more than 29 inches at the corner of Fremont and Mission streets — a slant over half an inch deeper than previously revealed, according to monitoring data reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.
The half-inch reportedly was gained while engineers dug beneath the sinking condominium earlier this year to support the weight of the tower — which was built atop a former landfill — along its two sides.
Engineers saw progress in stabilizing the Millennium Tower’s north side along Mission Street after installing six concrete-filled steel piles along its base in January, but it may have come at a cost to the tower’s west side, the data show....
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Bringing to mind the comment of former Prime Minister and Acting President of Russia, first Chairman of Gazprom and Russian Ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin:
"We meant to do better, but it came out as always"
