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Surely, the tilting is the biggest worry. Anybody care to estimate how many more inches can this tall building tilt before the lateral stresses lead to its collapse?

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I think you would be amazed how far it could tilt before it collapses.

For example the Tower of Pisa (55m height) is leaning much worse: almost 4 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towers

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