The Tower Life Building is a landmark and a historic building in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. Construction of the tower began in 1927 and the building rises 403 feet (123 meters) and has 30 floors. The building, which opened in 1929, was originally named the Smith-Young Tower and is the central component of a partially completed development called the Bowen Island Skyscrapers.[1]
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The Tower Life Building is featured in Roads to Nowhere as a placeholder.
In 50 years after people, repeated rains have spawned cycles of flooding along the San Antonio River Walk, causing it sank. After the flooding, waterlogged foundations leave the buildings tilting at odd angles, including the Tower Life Building, as silt and sand inundate the area. Steven S. Ross calls it death by inches since it happens slowly and insidiously. He continues that the river itself, although not flowing very fast, would flood repeatedly which brings a lot of silt and sand to cover part of the area causing the buildings to sink into it unevenly and settle. Eventually, the lean is too much for Tower Life Building as gravity takes over, which then falls into the river it once overlooked, toward the San Antonio River Walk on the ground.
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