Actually some of the buildings in México city got pile driven suports, some only to the hard mud others further down to the rock, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, fine arts palace was left on a tonge of hard mudd from all the buildings arround it being pile driven, and started sinking lopsided, they have stabilized it today by injecting a concrete slurry on special hollow tubes.
A hotel on Paseo de la Reforma was actually lowerred on the piles while it was still open, the street in front had sunk to much for another step to be added, so the Engineers and the Architects that constructed it supported it with hydraulic jaks and sawed off the piles and lowered the building milimeter by milimiter, it took 5 years, my brother in law is one of the architects and I had the oportunity to go and see the operation, awsome is little to the enormity of the proyect.
There is a very old and excelent restaurant behind Palacio Nacional it is "Las Casuelas" good food fom many years, the other one is "El Caballo Ballo", I know how to get there but I could not tell you the address, started going many moons ago.
May the god of the underworld spare us from shaking we need to drink ower mescal in his honor.
navegator
