The Torre Latinoamerica is a 182 meters tall skyscraper located on Mexico City, Mexico. The skyscraper was hailed as an engineering marvel due to it being the first major skyscraper successfully built on seismically active land, In 1957, it survived a 7.9 earthquake, an even bigger quake hit it in 1985, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale devastating most of Mexico City but the building survived with little to no damages. Torre Latinoamerica has been proven to survive dozens of earthquakes, but how long it will survive in a life after people, with looming earthquakes that threaten its very existence? 1 day after people: The lights Torre Latinoamerica flicker and permanently shut off as Mexico City's power grid finally succumbs to a lack of energy. The tower looms over the Mexico City skyline, enveloped in nothing but darkness.
1 year after people: The waters of the re-emerging Lake Texcoco start to flood the lower floors of the building, sweeping away furniture and anything that's left. The Torre Latinoamerica has been built with the intention to withstand any earthquakes that strike the building in the future, but will it survive the return of a liquid nemisis rather than a seismic nemisis?
15 years after people: Corrosion to the spire finally causes the supports holding it up to snap. The spire falls off the side of the building, shattering in the flooded streets below.
50 years after people: Mexico city is struck by a 7.6 earthquake. The tower manages to survives the earthquake thanks to its engineering designs, but decades of weathering and concrete degradation have weakened these elements that keep the tower safe.
100 years after people: The skyscaper is covered in plants and trees as the waters of Lake Texcoco make the surrounding environment humid, combined with a high number of birds residing in the tower that dropped seeds spark a massive plant growth that overwhelmed the structure. Most windows have fallen off the tower, and the upper half of the structure is now leaning forwards as some corroded steel columns begin to buckle under the increased weight of the plants.
200 years after people: The buckling supports at the floors where the tower leans forward, unable to withstand the attacks of Mother Nature, finally give way. The Torre Latinoamerica then collapses as the upper portion collapses on the lower section and leans further forward until the entire structure collapses and splashes into the waters of Lake Texcoco. As the remains now lie beneath water, the Mexico City skyline has shrunk in impressiveness and quantity, until all meet the same fate as one of the most iconic structures of the entire city, Torre Latinoamerica.