Architects all over the world have taken Khan's flexible principles to heart, allowing their skyscrapers to shift and sway and keep on standing even during severe earthquakes. For instance, a carport will sway a lot less if the concrete footings go much deeper into the ground, say four or more feet. BEIJING Authorities in the southern Chinese city Shenzhen evacuated a 70-story skyscraper Tuesday after it inexplicably began swaying. You could get tanned in winter if you sat right by the window: theres a bit of a greenhouse effect, the owner of a 64th-floor apartment above Chicago tells me. And because of the variation in height of the tubes, the force of the wind is disrupted. Australia 108 tower Melbourne sways during wild winds, storms | news Its like a little oasis right in the city. But the architect is happy that Manchester is on the rise again. The Building Technology Behind a Mile High Skyscraper - Trimble Inc. As a result, the tower reportedly sways only about 6 inches in high winds. Meanwhile in India, the 442m Mumbai World One will push higher still, its Armani-designed penthouses on level 117 offering airliner views of the Arabian Sea. If I sit on my sofa and look out, I can only see sea and sky. Do skyscrapers move in the wind? - EasyRelocated High anxiety: super-rich find supertall skyscraper an uncomfortable You see that brown building there? As the video explains, once winds reach a certain speed, the flow of air around a skyscraper separates further from the surface of the building, and . Tall buildings are designed to sway in the wind. This was one of several incidents . This is my area. In Manchester, the first 200m building outside the capital is due for completion next year. "They can't not sway," said John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer at MIT who was not involved in the project.