How do buildings not just fall over or collapse?

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Like, a residential high-rise has hundreds of couches and refrigerators and bedroom sets inside. How can the building support all that weight? How does a powerful windstorm not knock the entire building over?

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It has to do a lot with the weight distribution. Buildings are made in such a way so that they can hold extra weights. Think of a card house and how weight distributes there. Same principle

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