![]() ![]() ![]() "New York took that to the extreme, as usual." Going upįor much of human history, most residential and commercial buildings didn't rise beyond a few floors. Rather than spread out and have the disadvantages, commercially and socially - decided they had to go up." "That got filled up more and more people wanted to be there. "We started with a very defined area of land called Manhattan," Patrice Derrington, the director of Columbia University's Real Estate Development Program, tells ABC RN's Rear Vision. 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.If the apartment sells at that price, it would become the most expensive home in the US.Īt more than 470-metres high, this towering new development is yet another chapter in the city's dramatic 150-year love affair with the skyscraper. 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.Īs CNN’s Lydia Armstrong writes, the 84-story “ Billionaire’s Row” building overlooks Central Park and has already made a “powerful” architectural statement. 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. (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. “ 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. 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. Steinway isn’t the first back-and-forth building to go up in Manhattan. 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. Though popular upon its opening, boasting celebrities like Jennifer Lopez as residents, the building has recently been in the news thanks to tenants who are fed up with its quirks. In September 2021, the condo board sued the tower’s developers, claiming they failed “to properly design and build the uilding for its remarkable height,” causing “horrible and obtrusive noise and vibrations” in the pricey homes.įor those with stronger sea legs, Steinway Tower holds 60 apartments-and a storied musical history. ![]() Forty-six full-floor and duplex residences are in the tower itself, while 14 are in the landmarked Steinway Hall that serves as part of the tower’s base, according to a developer statement. Built in 1925 and designed by Warren and Wetmore, the building once served as the home of legendary piano company Steinway & Sons. German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg founded the business in 1853. With the help of an Americanized name and a penchant for sound, his company became known for its expensive, American-made instruments. Located on East 14th Street, the original building that bore the Steinway name featured a different kind of showroom: a fully equipped concert hall that served as the home of the New York Philharmonic and welcomed musical guests like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.Īfter Carnegie Hall replaced Steinway’s concert hall as New York’s premier musical venue, Steinway & Sons commissioned a 16-story building on West 57th Street to house its showrooms. ![]()
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