NEW YORK (AP) — One skyscraper stands out from the remainder within the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, however it’s the skinniest — the world’s skinniest, actually.
The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York structure agency SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper on the planet” because of its logic-defying ratio of width to top: 23 1/2-to-1.
“Any time it’s 1-to-10 or extra that’s thought of 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. “Essentially the most slender buildings on the planet are principally in Hong Kong, and so they’re round 17- or 18-to-1.”
The 60 residences within the tower vary in price from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and supply 360-degree views of town. It’s positioned simply south of Central Park, alongside a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Avenue generally known as “Billionaires Row.”
At 1,428 toes (435 meters), the constructing is the second-tallest residential tower within the Western Hemisphere, second to the close by Central Park Tower at 1,550 toes (470 meters). For comparability, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 toes (828 meters).
Steinway Tower is so skinny on the prime that each time the wind ramps up, the luxurious properties on the higher flooring sway round by just a few toes.
“Each skyscraper has to maneuver,” Pasquarelli stated. “If it’s too stiff, it’s really extra harmful — it has to have flexibility in it.”
To forestall 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 100 toes (30 meters) into the underlying bedrock to supply a deep basis.
Steinway Tower has an extended historical past as the previous location of Steinway Corridor, constructed in 1924. JDS Improvement Group and Property Markets Group purchased the constructing in 2013, and now they’re seeking to the long run.
“What I’m hoping is that fifty years from now, you’ve solely identified New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli stated. “I hope it holds a particular place in all future New Yorkers’ hearts.” ___
AP contributor Aron Ranen contributed to this report.
