Skinny skyscrapers are becoming de rigueur in New York as architects emulate a style popular in many major Asian cities.Ī nearby tower, 432 Park Avenue, opened in 2015 with similar dimensions and its own swaying issues. Steinway isn’t the first back-and-forth building to go up in Manhattan. Photo by Evan Joseph / Courtesy of Optimist Consulting “The whole trick is to design the buildings so that the building occupants never feel the movement.”Īs wide as a bowling alley is long, the Steinway Tower is crowned by a 300-foot steel decoration. “ can’t not sway,” John Ochsendorf, a structural engineer at MIT who was not involved in the Steinway Towers construction, told Nala Rogers of Inside Sciencein January. (Though posibly unsettling, this movement doesn’t present a safety hazard.) As engineers Rowan Williams Davies and Irwin told the Times in 2015, a 1,000-foot-tall tower might move several inches on a typical windy day and up to two feet on a rare 100-mile-per-hour wind day.
Though it’s constructed out of the world’s strongest concrete, per Architectural Digest’s Jessica Cherner, the building-like “all skyscrapers,” in the words of the New York Times’ Michelle Higgins- sways to some degree in the wind. Standing at 1,428 feet, Steinway Tower is now one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, topped only by One World Trade Center (1,776 feet), Central Park Tower (1,550 feet), and Willis (formerly Sears) Tower (1,450 feet).ĭespite standing over a quarter-mile tall, the building is just 60 feet wide-the same measurement as the length of a standard bowling alley, according to the Guardian. As CNN’s Lydia Armstrong writes, the 84-story “ Billionaire’s Row” building overlooks Central Park and has already made a “powerful” architectural statement. “I hope it holds a special place in all future New Yorkers’ hearts.The world’s skinniest skyscraper has opened in New York City-and it’s so slender that the Guardianhas dubbed it “the coffee stirrer.” With a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, Steinway Tower, at 111 West 57th Street, has swayed its way onto 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. 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 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 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. It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest-the world’s skinniest, in fact.
NEW YORK-One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline.
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