More than 30 luxury high-rise buildings in Miami Beach, FL, are currently sinking into the ground, shocking new research has revealed—but that hasn’t stopped a swath of homebuyers and developers from ...
Shanghai’s skyline glitters with sleek financial skyscrapers and glossy residential towers, but below the city’s lustrous facade lies an enduring problem. Thanks to mass urban migration, soft soil and ...
A map of New York City shows where it's sinking and how much, including a hotspot around LaGuardia Airport.Adapted from Ohenhen et al., Nature Cities, 2025 All the biggest US cities are sinking, a new ...
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Sinking skyscrapers? As buildings got bigger in Sunny Isles, so did engineering concerns
As one firm wrote a decade into the building boom: "We note that this area of Sunny Isles has had several tower structures settle significantly more than predicted." The reports, crucial to the design ...
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. — Almost three dozen high-rise condos and luxury hotels along the beach in South Florida are sinking or settling in unexpected ways, in some cases because of nearby ...
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29,000 Buildings Sinking Into The Ground
A study published in Nature City, “Land subsidence risk to infrastructure in US metropolises,” shows that most American cities are sinking. “Here we use space geodetic measurements from 2015 to 2021 ...
SURFSIDE - Residents in Surfside are raising concerns about sinking buildings as construction on a new condominium gets underway. Jennifer Albanesi, who lives next door to the construction site in a ...
Southeast Florida’s porous limestone and pockets of quartz sand drawn by longshore currents from the Appalachian Mountains can bear the tonnage of towering coastal high rises but may be bowing under ...
The Mile High City is sinking by two millimeters a year, which could be a “slow-moving hazard” for critical infrastructure, warns a Virginia Tech University study published on Thursday, May 8, in the ...
A University of Miami study that found 35 buildings along the coast sinking has prompted the Surfside commission to discuss tightening standards for monitoring the impacts of new construction on ...
More than 30 luxury high-rise buildings in Miami Beach, FL, are currently sinking into the ground, shocking new research has revealed—but that hasn't stopped a swath of homebuyers and developers from ...
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