BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK |||| NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Source: Daily Mail
In Manhattan, an unfinished building towers over it's neighbors, with an unusual design. The project, known as 'The Leaning Tower of Fidi' - is a high rise near Wall Street has been abandoned.
1 Seaport was praised for having all glass, with 60 stories no less. The $300 million dollar project hit an unstoppable roadblock when it sunk 3 inches into bedrock, putting the building into a dangerous position.
via Daily Mail:
Despite being a lucrative site, the site's ground was far from ideal to host such a large building and developers opted for a departure from usual skyscraper foundations.
Rather than drilling steel pylons through the ground until they reach bedrock, Fortis opted for soil improvement, which is where concrete is directly injected into the ground in order to make it firmer.
It was reported at the time that this would save the constructors $6 million, and developers went ahead with it despite all other surrounding buildings being anchored by piles.
Fortis hired Italian construction firm Pizzarotti to direct the project, but there were problems from the beginning - workers reported carrying out jobs in darkness and in areas scattered with debris, the New Yorker reports.
By 2016, the two firms were already butting heads over working hours and ambitious targets to finish the building within a year.
But matters became far worse in 2017, when a worker at the tower plunged to his death.
Juan Chonillo, 44, a father-of-five and carpenter originally from Ecuador, had moved to Queens with his older sister Angela and joined cousins working in construction.
Eleven years later, on September 21, 2017, he was working on the high-rise site on floor 29.
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