Lots of buyers are seeking out a little light swaying in their homes these days. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Ooh, imagine it. Yes, but did you just say “swaying”? The penthouse has a handmade nickel bathtub, you know. I mean, who wouldn’t want something like that? Sorry, the what? And there’s a 24-hour concierge service. 111 West 57th Street, also known as the Steinway Tower, is a supertall residential project by developers JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group in. Plus, it’s close to Central Park, which makes it appealing to joggers. It’s officially called the Steinway Tower, but local people refer to it as the Coffee Stirrer, because it is very tall and very. What exactly do you get for this money? Oh, plenty! You get 360-degree views of the world’s most glamorous city. It’s New York’s newest skyscraper, which is now ready for habitation. If it helps, you can pick up the cheapest one for just £6m. Oh, here we go … The most expensive apartment in the tower is on the market for an eye-watering £50.7m. At least the apartments inside will be priced cheaply to reflect that. The building’s width is exactly the length of a standard bowling alley. It’s dubbed the world’s skinniest skyscraper. How tall and how skinny? A quarter of a mile tall and 18.3 metres (60ft) wide, giving it a height-to-width ratio of 24:1. It’s officially called the Steinway Tower, but local people refer to it as the Coffee Stirrer, because it is very tall and very skinny. So what coffee stirrer are you talking about ? It’s New York’s newest skyscraper, which is now ready for habitation. And now you’re imagining an impractically large teaspoon. You saw the phrase “the Coffee Stirrer” and thought of a teaspoon. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers' hearts.Now hang on a minute, that won’t fit in my mug. “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. 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. Construction has finally begun on a skinny skyscraper designed by Foster + Partners for a site next door to Mies van der Rohes Seagram Building, New York. And while the exterior has the de rigueur reflective glass, it also includes a textured terracotta and bronze façade 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 2,717 feet (828 meters). It's located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires' Row.”Īt 1,428 feet (435 meters), the building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, second to the nearby Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet (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. 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. 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 1/2. Impossible Builds Episode Skinny Skyscraper. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest - the world's skinniest, in fact. NEW YORK (AP) - One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline.
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