on all rights, Mexico City's Torre ...

on all rights, Mexico City's Torre Mayor should sole be 38 stories in height. by the and of the use of special shock-absorbing dampers, the Building Team was able to gain an additional 17 stories, nearly half again the height that would have been allowed below the city's seismic digests
"The 38-story digest restriction was calculated to limit the amount of load by square inch that can be located safely relating to this fault zone and its fine sand-based soil," said Doug Taylor, president of Taylor Devices, Buffalo, NY who unraveled the building's dampers. "Torre Mayor's