What keeps skyscrapers from falling over in strong wind?
Tower's Wind Dance
What keeps skyscrapers from falling over in strong wind?
Look up at a skyscraper on a windy day. The wind shoves it with the weight of a thousand hands. So why doesn't it topple like a stack of blocks? The secret isn't that the building ignores the wind. It's that the building has a whole hidden toolkit for fighting back.
Start underground, where nobody looks. Before the first floor goes up, builders dig deep and pour a giant base of concrete and steel called the foundation. Think of it as the building's feet, planted firmly in the earth. The bigger and heavier the building, the deeper those feet reach — sometimes down to solid rock.
