#supertalls — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #supertalls, aggregated by home.social.
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"In 2024, the University of Miami published a study about how high-rise towers on Miami’s barrier islands, specifically in Sunny Isles Beach, were settling, or sinking, more than expected, many years after construction had been finished...The study hypothesized that one of the primary reasons for this excessive settlement was that the vibrations of nearby construction, combined with Florida’s unique geology of limestone and sand, could cause the sand to rearrange itself and get more compact." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/realestate/miami-skyscrapers-supertalls-development.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.hYRL._0q6hUiwjOFO&smid=url-share re: #climateurbanism #supertalls et al.