“What I’m hoping is that 50 years from now, you’ve only known New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli said. JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group bought the building in 2013, and now they’re looking to the future. The supertall skyscraper at 111 W 57th Street clocks in at over 1,400 feet tall, offering residents of unparalleled views of Central Park and northern. Steinway Tower has a long history as the former location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. But also, over the past decade, super-skinny skyscrapers, or pencil towers, have begun rising in New York City. To prevent the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned steel plates.Īnd while the exterior has the de rigueur reflective glass, it also includes a textured terracotta and bronze facade that creates wind turbulence to slow the acceleration of the building, Pasquarelli said.Ībout 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet (30 metres) into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation. “If it’s too stiff, it’s actually more dangerous. Steinway Tower is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few feet.Įvery skyscraper has to move, Pasquarelli said. The building is located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as Billionaires Row.Īt 1,428 feet (435 metres), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet (470 metres).įor comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 feet (828 metres).Īlso Read: World’s tallest Christ statue comes up in Brazil 5 m taller than Christ the Redeemer "Every skyscraper has to move," Mr Pasquarelli said.The cost of the 60 apartments the tower houses ranges from USD 18 million to USD 66 million per unit, and offer a 360-degree view of the city.
The complex however is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few metres. It's located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan's 57th Street known as 'Billionaires' Row'.Īt 435 metres, the building is the second-tallest residential tower in New York, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 470 metres.įor comparison, the world's tallest tower is Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which stands at 828 metres. The 60 apartments in the tower range cost well above the million-dollar mark with the cheapest going from $US18 million ($25.9 million) but offer 360-degree views of the city. Every skyscraper has to move, Pasquarelli said. "The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they're around 17- or 18-to-1." Rising 435 metres from a small site on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row, 111W57 (111 West 57th Street) is the thinnest skyscraper ever constructed. Steinway Tower is so skinny at the top that whenever the wind ramps up, the luxury homes on the upper floors sway around by a few feet. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. This makes it taller than Rafael Violy’s 432 Park Avenue (1,396 feet) and ONE57 by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc (1,005 feet). The skyscraper will be 1,428 feet or 435 meters tall. Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. On completion, Steinway Tower will hold the title of world’s most slender skyscraper, with a width-to-height ratio of approximately 1:24.
"1-to-15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do. Hopefully, decades or centuries later, when skinny skyscrapers are no longer rare and expensive, there will be one day that these towers are built for the general welfare. Steinway Tower is now opening its doors to new residents, but while the building's silhoutte is skinny, the prices certainly aren't, ranging from 7.75 million for a two-bedroom apartment to 66. "Any time it's 1-to-10 or more that's considered a slender building" SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. The 1,428-foot tower is 24 times as tall as it is wide and has only one residence on each floor. The 84-storey residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of "most slender skyscraper in the world" thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2. When you consider the building's height-to-width ratio, it's the world's skinniest skyscraper.