![]() ![]() ![]() "What was once considered to be the greatest challenge in elevator history, is finally becoming reality: the elevator that can travel in curves, horizontally and in continuous loops," the Oii designers explain. Central Park Tower - 225 West 57th Street / Nordstrom Tower New York City, USA Height: 472m/1550ft Floors: 98 Function: Residential - Worlds Tallest Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Completed: 2020 The Rock 20 by Keith Michael, on Flickr Trip to NYC by heytampa, on Flickr CPT. Bedford Stuyvesant Bushwick Greenpoint Williamsburg Central. Stretching 121-metres-long, concept drawings for the glass-clad tower show it would need an elevator that could travel within the curves of the building - which would pose a nice riddle for bullish engineer. Park Slope Prospect Heights Red Hook North & Northeastern. But what if we substituted height with length? What if our buildings were long instead of tall?" ![]() Its designers, New York and Athens-based firm Oii Studio, drafted the project to work around these zoning laws, stating on their website that height restrictions have "created a peculiar set of tricks through which developers try to maximize their property’s height in order to infuse it with the prestige of a high rise structure. The design is a response to the influx of super-tall, super-slender luxury residential towers which have gone up in New York over recent years, which allows real-estate companies to capitalise on building taller and taller structures to be erected on small plots of land. Whether you love it, or you're repulsed by the thought of this shape appearing on Manhattan’s horizon, the slender tower called 'The Big Bend' is impressive.Ĭurving like a bendy-straw, the building takes the race to build the tallest skyscraper in a new direction. A U-shaped New York skyscraper, which has been dubbed by its designer's as the "longest building in the world," has been unveiled. ![]()
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