The building is expected to top out early next year.
Ap0 Advertisement 111 West 57th Street is a 84-story, 1,428-foot (435-meter) supertall skyscraper located on ‘Billionare’s Row’ in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Property Markets Group, Spruce Capital Partners, and JDS Development make up the development team. Skyscraper of the Day: Meet The ‘Skinniest Skyscraper In The World’ Sharjeel T. 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. The 1,428-foot tower is 24 times as tall as it is wide and has only one residence on each floor. The 86-story tower was designed by SHoP Architects with a delicate facade composed of terra cotta and bronze. 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. When you consider the building's height-to-width ratio, it's the world's skinniest skyscraper. 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. Located in New York and rising from within a landmarked building. It’s dubbed the world’s skinniest skyscraper. The three other bedrooms are also on this floor. Witness the construction of the skinniest skyscraper ever to make it off the drawing board. 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. The master suite is massive, complete with a sitting room, wet bar, two “dressing halls,” a walk-in closet, and two master bathrooms. 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. Pasquarelli says the building is "uniquely New York." As a New Yorker, I have to say I'd rather live closer to the ground in a diverse neighborhood than 1,000 feet high in the clouds in Midtown, surrounded by the absent millionaires and billionaires who make up so many of the buyers on Billionaires' Row.If one flight of stairs is too much, the upper level is also accessible via a private elevator. Steinway Tower has basically the same draw, only slightly more symmetrical - a fact the developers made sure to emphasize during the press event.
The tower's terracotta and bronze exterior does differentiate it from the sleek glassy surfaces of the other new skyscrapers on Billionaires' Row.īut while the skyscraper's facade and super-tall, super-skinny silhouette are certainly unusual, I can't say that my tour of its first condo felt too different from another Billionaires' Row apartment I've visited.Įarlier last year, I toured a full-floor residence at nearby 157 West 57th Street that was listed for $58.5 million and found that the standout feature was the view of the park. But also, over the past decade, super-skinny skyscrapers, or pencil towers, have begun rising in New York City. "It's the quintessential tower designed and built by New Yorkers," Pasquarelli said. Gregg Pasquarelli, founder of SHoP Architects, which designed the building, said at the press preview that their goal was to create a building that was "uniquely New York and absolutely modern and forward-thinking, but has the DNA of the New York skyscraper embedded in it." Witness the construction of the skinniest skyscraper ever to make it off the drawing board.
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