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Old Posted Jul 28, 2010, 11:38 PM
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This thread should have probably gone in the engineering section.

Anyway, Torre Escollera in Cartagena was built with inadequate wind bracing(virtually none). When a wind storm hit the tower during construction, it permanently twisted the frame. Fortunately none of the cladding had been added at that point because otherwise the tower might have completely collapsed.



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Torre de la Escollera-Emporis
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