A lot of the reason why concrete structures have failed so quickly is that the material was still fairly new when most of the structures failing now were created. There’s nothing that says that well designed and constructed modern high performance polymer modified concretes will have the same problems. They also have additives like zypex paste that make it more waterproof and self healing. They also have permeable formwork liners for increasing the surface density of the concrete and chemical concrete hardeners etc.

"A lot of the reason why concrete structures have failed so quickly is that the material was still fairly new when most of the structures failing now were created."

Or the designer can get too creative :

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/15/style/432-park-avenue-sky...