# Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388
**Category:** Tracking with Closeups
**Tags:** san-francisco, geotechnology, millennium-tower
**Created:** [17 November 2021 13:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388 "2021-11-17T13:23:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)
#### Post date: [17 November 2021 13:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/1 "2021-11-17T13:23:47Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [30 November 2021 15:35 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/2 "2021-11-30T15:35:28Z")
Who would have thought that drilling for pilings adjacent the sinking sides would accelerate the sink?
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### Author:  [@Mettelus](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Mettelus)
#### Post date: [30 November 2021 18:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/3 "2021-11-30T18:23:05Z")
I thought that SF was the epicenter of “follow the science”. Maybe I missed it that “science” is now an alias for media.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [22 January 2022 18:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/4 "2022-01-22T18:37:13Z")
Building Integrity channel offers a take and promises a detailed analysis in a series of future videos:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWn-HMd5Co)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [12 February 2022 23:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/5 "2022-02-12T23:06:56Z")
Building Integrity channel second episode:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIxhpP7hQu4)
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### Author:  [@TrinityWaters](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/TrinityWaters)
#### Post date: [13 February 2022 00:29 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/6 "2022-02-13T00:29:37Z")
I have become painfully convinced over the years that Mother Nature is tricksy and false. Natural environments are difficult to model and quantify. My Koi pond sank into the hard blue clay subsoil in my backyard more than I guessed it would, about 6 inches. It caused me to repair and modify plumbing and adjacent plantings. Maybe that sinking had something to do with supporting 45 tons of basalt and 5,000 gallons of water (=40,000lbs), all in a rainy locale. Good news is that it’s stabilized now, after about 12 years since we enlarged it so much. Used to be about 600 gallons and maybe 5 tons of rock.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [21 March 2022 14:24 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/7 "2022-03-21T14:24:38Z")
Building Integrity channel third episode:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsl37A0KMj8)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [6 April 2023 13:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/8 "2023-04-06T13:27:53Z")
More from Building Integrity:
[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e7e487a7788bb56db8e19983dd52f2f38cf8a513.jpeg "Did I Uncover a $100,000,000 Mistake with the Millennium Tower "Fix"?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xezg8PxVSYA)
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### Author:  [@pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/pturmel)
#### Post date: [6 April 2023 16:29 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/9 "2023-04-06T16:29:19Z")
I watched the whole series he put out. The real scandal is that the Old Bay Clay under the original friction pilings can’t carry the load, and never could. Computable without resort to FEA or other modern tech.
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### Author:  [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)
#### Post date: [6 April 2023 17:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/10 "2023-04-06T17:19:36Z")
> [@TrinityWaters](#):
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> I have become painfully convinced over the years that Mother Nature is tricksy and false.
I think the architect of The Learning Tower of San Francisco deserves Reparations from Mother Nature.
Let’s go shake her down.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [17 August 2023 21:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/11 "2023-08-17T21:32:13Z")
NYC pencil tower:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrvbUxOamo)
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### Author:  [@drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/drlorentz)
#### Post date: [17 August 2023 23:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/12 "2023-08-17T23:06:53Z")
Idiocracy. Look for more of these going forward.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [18 August 2024 21:14 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/13 "2024-08-18T21:14:01Z")
Injury, meet insult.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asJHx-WShnY)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [13 October 2024 14:20 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/14 "2024-10-13T14:20:41Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6uuGqFLY2Q)
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [17 May 2026 20:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/15 "2026-05-17T20:02:40Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI4Di2uRDUs)
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### Author:  [@civilwestman](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/civilwestman)
#### Post date: [19 May 2026 16:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/16 "2026-05-19T16:06:28Z")
How could any rational actors expect stability of any substrate in a jurisdiction were “female” cannot be defined, is a varying number of genders by fiat, 2+2 may be 5, crime is solely defined by non-adherence to the latest woke nostrum, truth is a matter of revelation to self-described supremacists (easily identifiable by their amplified hatred of those they complain are “supremacists”). In other words, don’t expect any structure to remain stable in thoroughly unstable California. Just sayin’ (the obvious).
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### Author:  [@pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/pturmel)
#### Post date: [20 May 2026 00:55 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/17 "2026-05-20T00:55:30Z")
> [@civilwestman](#):
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> truth is a matter of revelation
Heh. It struck me that the HOA’s approach to the foundation problem is to declare it isn’t a problem “because we say so”. And claims that subsidence is bad for the building is just biased egghead nonsense. 🙄
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [21 June 2026 14:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/18 "2026-06-21T14:32:01Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enSNa1O-f8)
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### Author:  [@drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/drlorentz)
#### Post date: [7 July 2026 19:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/19 "2026-07-07T19:12:47Z")
New York, no slouch in decadence, has their own leaning tower. The best part is that no one in the video is speaking English.
> **[New York High Rise Evacuated After Terrifying Discovery](https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/07/new-york-evacuated-building-collapse-beams-buckled/)**
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> Two columns buckled in a 33-story high-rise in Midtown New York on July 7. The building has been evacuated.
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### Author:  [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)
#### Post date: [7 July 2026 20:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/20 "2026-07-07T20:21:23Z")
The actual NYC “Leaning Tower”
> [@Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/faulty-foundation-the-leaning-tower-of-san-francisco/388/11):
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> NYC pencil tower: [[The Wild Story of New York’s Abandoned Skyscraper] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrvbUxOamo)
Background on this 1960 Pfizer Building conversion below. To think they were going to add 16 stories including a gym plus a rooftop pool.
[https://newyorkyimby.com/2026/06/pfizer-hqs-residential-conversion-expansion-progresses-at-219-229-east-42nd-street-in-midtown-east-manhattan.html](https://newyorkyimby.com/2026/06/pfizer-hqs-residential-conversion-expansion-progresses-at-219-229-east-42nd-street-in-midtown-east-manhattan.html)
> **[Pfizer Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer_Building)**
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> The Pfizer Building is a skyscraper on 42nd Street in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. The structure consists of two formerly separate buildings at 219 and 235 East 42nd Street, which housed the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The older building at 219 East 42nd Street, completed in 1905, was originally a 10-story building. The building at 235 East 42nd Street, designed by Emery Roth & Sons in the International Style, was constructed in 1960 and has 33 st...
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