JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group bought the building in 2013, and now they’re looking to the future. Steinway Tower has a long history as the former location of Steinway Hall, constructed in 1924. About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet (30 meters) into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation.
And 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. To prevent the tower from swaying too far, the architects created a counterbalance with tuned steel plates. “If it’s too stiff, it’s actually more dangerous-it has to have flexibility in it.” “Every skyscraper has to move,” Pasquarelli said. 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. For comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 828 meters. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires Row.”Īt 435 meters (1,428 feet), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 470 meters. The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit and offer 360-degree views of the city.
“The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they’re around 17- or 18-to-1.” “Any time it’s 1-to-10 or more that’s considered a slender building 1-to-15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. The 84-story 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: 23 1/2-to-1. It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest-the world’s skinniest, in fact. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers’ hearts.NEW YORK-One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. “What I’m hoping is that 50 years from now, you’ve only known New York with 111 West 57th St.,” Pasquarelli said. About 200 rock anchors descend at most 100 feet into the underlying bedrock to provide a deep foundation. For comparison, the world’s tallest tower is Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2,717 feet. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”Īt 1,428 feet the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet. The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and offer 360-degree views of the city. “The most slender buildings in the world are mostly in Hong Kong, and they’re around 17–or 18–to–1.” “Any time it’s 1–to–10 or more that’s considered a slender building 1–to–15 or more is considered exotic and really difficult to do,” SHoP Architects founding principal Gregg Pasquarelli said. The 84-story 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–23.5. NEW YORK-One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline.
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