Word: zeevaert
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...Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship, and the weight of the building that it supports exactly equals the weight of the soil removed in excavation. Mexicans call it "the floating embassy...
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