Woah.
We have a shopping center here that is right by the beach. It's quite massive, and my mother knew people who worked on it while they were building it. A tiler said that each day he came back to carry on working, half the ones he had laid the previous day had cracked due to the building sinking/morphing as the foundations were sand. A concrete worker said that each day he came back there were new cracks in the building foundations/walls/pillars. He said that his company just filled them in with paste instead of redoing them.
The building literally is built on sand.
If you stand on a nearby grassy landing, you can see the building like this:
_Building_
| |
Sea __| |__Ground__
~~~~~| |
The building has a big crack down the exact middle of it, if you look at it like this.
The half closest to the sea is on a big lean and is splitting away from the other half. If you park your car on top (it includes a parking garage) on the normal half, it's fine. If you park on the half closest to the sea, you start rolling towards the sea, quite instantly and quite quickly.
Sometimes when you're inside, the building will shake like a mini-earthquake thing.
Here are some images:
It's the horrible green thing down bottom left corner.
Note the filename (ugliest waterfront building) lol.
Possibly the best photo so far. See the big sign on the circle part? That's where it has split. This photo is quite old though.
Taken from the top, that's how close it is to the beach.
Here's a good photo of the side that I'm talking about. I added red lines to illustrate.
Again, this is an old photo, it's worse and there's a noticeable crack there now. They painted the whole building again to hide the cracks as well since the photo.
Again.
I wouldn't be taking that up there, buddy.
We were warned by people who helped build it never to actually go in it. It's a scary ass building.
