Post-9/11 fear of taller buildings gave New Yorkers great pause. Local complaints aside, someone’s going to pay, luxury apartment seekers or Central Park sunbathers who will bask in too much shade. Front row seats are always costly, especially on Billionaire's Row. In this area, the intense competition of edifices is accommodating the uber wealthy with massive living spaces and heavenly views overlooking (and in some cases overshadowing) Central Park. Off site, the vocal critics of neighboring One57’s condo construction surely will have strong opinions about the overall superstructure trend, as architects and developers like Extell Development Company, CIM Group and Property Markets Group flex their muscles (and perhaps their egos) to build stronger and higher-topping each other in the process.

If the skyscraper is completed effectively, that's a game-changer for construction of New York City skyscrapers. They doubt the superstructure can be completed this way. Naturally, organized union labor has strongly protested this strategy by picketing the site. By summer, developers plan to raise the tower's reinforced cast concrete frame with more non-union personnel. In fact, the process has already begun-construction managers and non-union subcontractors poured the building's foundation last September. 57th Street tower is creating great controversy because developers plan to erect it with non-union labor. The skinny skyscraper, with its feathered form, was designed by SHoP Architects.The 111 W. The project is being developed in partnership with Property Markets Group and will be built by JDS Construction Group with completion slated for early 2018. Developers are finalizing a $500 million construction loan, Crain's reported. The tower will feature full-floor and duplex apartments (reportedly only 45 large units total) with 360-degree views, including unparalleled views of Central Park. 57th skinny building, which was approved by New York City last week, is projected to be an 80 stories tall and an implausible 60 feet wide, according to Crain's. 57th Street) slated to be 1,479 feet (1,775 feet including a spire). That's due to be a temporary title as more super skyscrapers are on the horizon (literally and figuratively)-most notably the future Nordstrom Tower (225 W. Planned by SHoP Architects, the building is already touted as the tallest and most slender residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. Located in New York and rising from within a landmarked building the team will attempt to build the world's thinnest skyscraper on the construction equivalent of a postage stamp. Witness the construction of the skinniest skyscraper ever to make it off the drawing board. On the heels of One57’s condominium (1,005 feet tall) and 432 Park Avenue’s tower (1,396-feet tall), comes word of their future neighbor-111 West 57th Street’s “skinny skyscraper,' which will become the city's next superstructure champion at a proposed 1,421 feet tall. Impossible Builds Episode Skinny Skyscraper. More on the Beach & Howe Tower via CTBUH's Skyscraper Centerģ.The 'Skinny Skyscraper' overlooks and overshadows Central Park. Structural engineer: Glotman Simpson Group More on 111 West 57th Street via CTBUH's Skyscraper CenterĪrchitects: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), James KM Cheng Architects Here's a quick look at some prominent skinny skyscraper projects in the works: For example, the 111 West 57th Street project in New York City has a height-to-width ratio of 22.5:1. The new crop of skinny towers blows those ratios out of the water. A typical skyscraper, such as the Willis Tower, falls in the 7:1 range. To be considered 'superthin' or 'slender,' a tower must have a height-to-width ratio of at least 10:1. 2 below), utilize a narrow form to accommodate multiple structures on a given site. Some projects, like the Beach & Howe Tower in Vancouver (see No. Recent advancements in structural design, combined with the loosening of density and zoning requirements, has opened the door for the so-called 'superslim skyscraper.'įrom New York to Melbourne to Vancouver, developers are planning high-rise structures on postage-stamp-sized parcels (OK, not that small, but we're talking lots as narrow as 22 feet) in dense urban locations.ĭevelopers love the building type because they can finally take advantage of land that was previously unusable for large multifamily and mixed-use structures.