TIL that a skyscraper called the Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking and tilting
The tower, opened in 2009, is a mixed use building. In 2015, it was discovered that the tower was sinking and tilting due to foundation issues. As of 2025, it has tilted 29 inches to the northwest and sunk 18 inches.
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Its all the duels happening at the top.
And not one friggin picture of it on that site.
Here you go:
Was it designed by a medieval Italian architect?
The tilting tower of Francisco?
*Francesco
isn't that the Salesforce building that engineers warned was going to do this exact thing before they built it?
Just put a wedge under the one side
Oh wow.
Looking at the article, it sounds like they tried to fix it and found the repair work was making it tilt even faster.