![]() They were very tall and narrow, so we are coming back to this again, scaling it down to these beautiful elegant narrow towers reaching up in the sky. “If you look back at the early skyscrapers in the Twenties and Thirties, especially the ones in lower Manhattan, around Wall Street and the Woolworth Tower, they had very small footprints. They plan on employing a terra cotta and bronze façade that captures the past, but re-imagines it for the 21st century. Project designers at SHoP Architects believe that the 111 West 57th Street project will join the tradition of New York City skyscrapers. But to feel like being home,” says Silvian Marcus, Director of Building Structures, WSP USA. “It’s our challenge, despite the shape, despite the height, despite the slenderness to make sure the occupants will not feel the fact that they live in a slender and tall building. It’s going to be truly spectacular.”īut building such spectacular slenderness? It’s not always so easy.Įngineers on the project have to deal with a variety of issues ranging from dampening the impact of wind on such a slender structure, to making it feel, well, not so slender. There’s just going to be nothing like it across the entire cityscape. It enjoys commanding views of Park, across into Long Island City, Queens, and out to Long Island. ![]() “The penthouse sits almost twelve hundred feet up in the air. That was really what we were going for and we think it will be really special.”Īnd the views from this extraordinary perch in the sky? They’re likely amongst the best in Manhattan. ![]() “You really get this floor-through experience that you’re floating in the city. Our first residential floor starts at about 260 feet in the air, so that every single apartment in the tower has a spectacular unobstructed view of Central Park,” says Stern. “The building has roughly 45 apartments and the tower floors. The tower is expected to have only 3 high-speed elevators, and each floor will be its own ultra-luxe 5,000 square foot apartment. ![]() “The price that people are willing to pay for the unobstructed Central Park view is really the only reason these buildings can be economically feasible,” says Stern. These new, slender skyscrapers are cropping up thanks to advances in building science coupled with eye-popping real estate prices. That gives us a ratio of about 1 to 23…while most buildings are well under 1 to 20,” says lead project architect Dana Getman of SHoP Architects. “It will become the most slender building in the world because we have a very narrow floor plate, which is about 60 feet, and the tower is rising over 1300 feet tall. The building will sit on a lot just 60 feet wide, but will soar to an incredible height – taller than the rooftop of the Empire State Building. If all goes according to plan, a lot located at 111 West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan, will be the future home of the skinniest skyscraper in the world. It will even top the HighCliff in Hong Kong, currently the most slender in the world. Stern’s real estate firm, JDS Development Group, along with co-partner, PMG, have a project that takes the idea of slender to a new level. “That’s why you’re seeing this trend of taller buildings being built on smaller parcels of land.” “Land is very scarce, especially in the most desirable parts in the city,” says Manhattan real estate developer Michael Stern. But if you look closely, there’s a new shape that’s starting to stand out. The New York City skyline is one of the most famous in the world.
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