The building is expected to top out early next year. Building The World's Thinnest Skyscraper 2,177,250 views 44K Dislike Share The B1M 2.59M subscribers Rising 435 metres from a small site on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row, 111W57 (111. Property Markets Group, Spruce Capital Partners, and JDS Development make up the development team. The rest of the tower units are mostly full-floor, three-bedroom layouts there are seven duplexes. Fourteen of the building’s units are located within this building. As 6sqft previously explained, the terra cotta tiles are “intricately shaped to evoke the load-bearing walls of classic, old-world buildings,” which make for the “most intricate curtain wall ever designed for a modern residential building in New York.” The muted color was chosen to complement the adjacent former site of Steinway Hall, designed in the 1920s by Grand Central architects Warren and Wetmore.
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The 86-story tower was designed by SHoP Architects with a delicate facade composed of terra cotta and bronze. Unit 32, listed for $18 million, is a bit chopped up, while unit 64, listed for $30 million, has a full-width outdoor terrace and a full-width great room.Īll interiors were designed by Studio Sofield, who incorporated custom details such as bronze door handles shaped like the tower itself and curved kitchen cabinets that mimic the facade’s terra cotta panels.Īmenities include a porte cochre an 82-foot-long, two-lane swimming pool with private cabanas sauna, steam, and treatment rooms a double-height fitness center with a mezzanine terrace private dining room and chef’s catering kitchen residents’ lounge with another terrace and meeting rooms and a study. The three other bedrooms are also on this floor. The master suite is massive, complete with a sitting room, wet bar, two “dressing halls,” a walk-in closet, and two master bathrooms. It will house residents from the 32nd storey upwards and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has included plenty of amenities for them to enjoy, including a 15,000-square-feet terrace, indoor and outdoor pools, a private club and a sky-high ballroom.If one flight of stairs is too much, the upper level is also accessible via a private elevator. Floors one to seven, for instance, have been taken by the luxury department store Nordstrom, hence the structure’s alternative name, the “Nordstrom Tower”. Comprising a vast total floorspace of one million square feet, the first 31 floors will be dedicated to commercial use. Intel: The original plan was to add a spire that would take the building’s height to just one foot short of One World Trade Center, but the idea was dropped a penthouse is reportedly on sale for £75.3m and comes with four bedrooms, a 2,000-square-feet terrace and an outdoor pool.Īpartments have just gone on sale at Central Park Tower, which will be the tallest residential building in the world when it is complete. With a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, Steinway Tower, at 111. As Churchill observed, “We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.” 111 West 57th Street (Steinway Tower) The world’s skinniest skyscraper has opened in New York Cityand it’s so slender that the Guardian has dubbed it the coffee stirrer. And for all their aesthetic wow factor, that’s worth considering.
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The rarity of these buildings will only add to what is increasingly being seen as their metaphorical significance: that they are spatial representations of income inequality, a smattering of extraordinary, and extraordinarily expensive, homes for the 0.1 per cent, visible for miles around. Manhattan has a finite number of plots of land that are big enough for a viable skinny residential skyscraper, but not so large as to warrant a different kind of development altogether. If a skyscraper is too slender, the lift shaft will occupy too much of the footprint and eat into profitability. The technology on which all skyscrapers are predicated is the lift.
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Super-skinny skyscrapers won’t crop up in every unused nook and cranny of the city, because buildings can only go so skinny. Given that the building stretches up through 82 storeys, the projected value of the venture, assuming it sells out, is reportedly £1.15 billion. But developers are betting that its elite vistas will nonetheless make it highly profitable, attracting ultra-wealthy residents willing to spend upwards of £12m on a unit.
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The size-zero building comes with an outsize price tag: the Steinway Tower’s construction budget was filed at £678 million in June 2015. If you think all that sounds expensive, you are right.