One skyscraper stands out from the remaining within the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, however it’s the skinniest – the world’s skinniest, in actual fact.
The 84-storey residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York structure agency SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper on the earth” because of its logic-defying ratio of width to top: 1-to-23 1/2.
“Any time it’s 1-to-10 or extra that’s thought-about a slender constructing; 1-to-15 or extra is taken into account unique and actually tough to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli stated. “The most slender buildings on the earth are principally in Hong Kong, they usually’re round 17- or 18-to-1.”
The 60 residences within the tower vary in price from US$18mil (RM81mil) to US$66mil (RM296mil) per unit, and supply 360-degree views of town. It’s situated simply south of Central Park, alongside a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street often known as “Billionaires’ Row”.
At 1,428ft (435m), the constructing is the second-tallest residential tower within the Western Hemisphere, second to the close by Central Park Tower at 1,550ft (470m). For comparability, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717ft (828m).
Steinway Tower is so skinny on the high that each time the wind ramps up, the posh houses on the higher flooring sway round by a number of ft.
“Every skyscraper has to maneuver,” Pasquarelli stated. “If it’s too stiff, it’s truly extra harmful – it has to have flexibility in it.”
To stop the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned metal plates. And whereas the outside has the de rigueur reflective glass, it additionally features a textured terracotta and bronze facade that creates wind turbulence to gradual the acceleration of the constructing, Pasquarelli stated.
About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100ft (30m) into the underlying bedrock to supply a deep basis.Steinway Tower has an extended historical past as the previous location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group purchased the constructing in 2013, and now they’re trying to the longer term.
“What I’m hoping is that fifty years from now, you’ve solely recognized New York with 111 West 57th St,” Pasquarelli stated. “I hope it holds a particular place in all future New Yorkers’ hearts.” – AP
