The world's skinniest skyscraper is ready for its first residents

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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/steinway-tower-intl-scli/index.html

The world's skinniest skyscraper is ready for its first residents
Updated 6th April 2022



2021DS15 111 W 57, Architect: SHOP Architects; Location:New York, New York
Credit: David Sundberg

The world's skinniest skyscraper has been completed, adding a new landmark to Manhattan's famous skyline.

Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, making it "the most slender skyscraper in the world," according to the developers.

At 1,428 feet, it is also one of the tallest buildings in the Western hemisphere, falling short of two others in New York City: One World Trade Center at 1,776 feet and Central Park Tower at 1,550 feet.

The midtown Manhattan development includes 60 apartments spanning the tower's 84 stories and the adjacent Steinway Hall building.

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10 Facts About Steinway Tower, the World’s Thinnest Skyscraper

SHoP Architects’ slender, supertall building, the luxurious Steinway Tower at 111 West 57th Street is complete.

[PatSeg]

1. That is rather freaky looking

I'm not sure I'd want to live toward the top, though you'd have a great view. Guess it is very expensive as well.

"Steinway Tower is now opening its doors to new residents, but while the building's silhouette is skinny, the prices certainly aren't, ranging from $7.75 million for a studio apartment to $66 million for the penthouse."

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/steinway-tower-intl-scli/index.html

[Goodheart]

10. Hard to believe Manhattan allowed that to be built.

[PatSeg]

13. I know, same here

Also, I find it ugly.

[Polybius]

23. I don't understand rich people who live in hyper-expensive buildings in a city

If you're gonna spend millions, why not get a mansion like this instead:



Too old and haunted looking? Fine, then get this:

[PatSeg]

24. Oh yes, I agree

Such wealth brings so many options, why a condo in a crowded city with neighbors so close at hand?

[KS Toronado]

2. Hope it doesn't become another "Leaning Tower of Pisa"

[keithbvadu2]

15. It would not lean for long.

[Scrivener7]

3. Ruins the skyline. Also, those buildings sway something terrible in the wind. You'd

get seasick sitting on the couch on a stormy day.

[Celerity]

7. bit harsh

Ruins the skyline.

[Scrivener7]

8. I know. But my beloved skyline has turned into something out of a Marvel movie.

[PatSeg]

14. You're right, it does

[MineralMan]

11. Context matters, doesn't it?

Thanks for that wider image.

[hunter]

4. What a ridiculous thing.

Humans are weird.

[markie]

5. just NO

a number of years back when working in Manhattan, I initially reserved a room at the Marriot on Broadway... they gave me a room, maybe 30th floor or so... I couldn't stay... moved up to Yonkers and drove into the city each day

I didn't like the floor to ceiling windows

[sl8]

6. Related: "Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York ..."

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/05/super-tall-super-skinny-super-expensive-the-pencil-towers-of-new-yorks-super-rich

Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich



The proposed 2022 skyline overlooking Central Park. Photograph: Andrew C Nelson/Jose Hernandez/Skyscraper Museum

An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower. By Oliver Wainwright

by Oliver Wainwright
Tue 5 Feb 2019 01.00 EST

It is rare in the history of architecture for a new type of building to emerge. The Romans’ discovery of concrete birthed the great domes and fortifications of its empire. The Victorians’ development of steel led to an era of majestic bridges and vaulted train sheds. The American invention of the elevator created the first skyscrapers in Chicago. Now, we are seeing a new type of structure that perfectly embodies the 21st-century age of technical ingenuity and extreme inequality. A heady confluence of engineering prowess, zoning loopholes and an unparalleled concentration of personal wealth have together spawned a new species of super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive spire.

Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.

These towers are not only the product of advances in construction technology – and a global surfeit of super-rich buyers – but a zoning policy that allows a developer to acquire unused airspace nearby, add it to their own lot, and erect a vast structure without any kind of public review process taking place. The face of New York is changing at a rate not seen for decades, and the deals that are driving it are all happening behind closed doors.

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[doc03]

9. I was wondering what the footprint of the building is. I couldn't find that but the

lot it is on is only 20681 sq. ft. that's less than a half-acre of ground. That is a little smaller than the lot my house is on. I can't imagine
a 1428 foot building in my yard. I would have one hell of a view though.

[Marius25]

12. I hate that building every time I go to NYC

It's just too ridiculously thin and really ruins the look of the skyline. It stands by itself because nothing else in that area is anywhere close to that tall, and stands out like a sore thumb.

It's nothing but a money laundering building since only the super rich can buy anything there.

[Scrivener7]

16. But in these cases, it's looking like karma is hitting the money launderers

quickly.

Here's another of those monstrosities. Though not as thin and not as tall. So you can imagine what this one is going to be like.
https://therealdeal.com/2021/02/03/432-park-tenants-plagued-by-creaks-leaks-and-design-flaws/

[smirkymonkey]

22. Exactly. It is like a monument to greed and corruption.

Besides, I hate high rises and my vertigo has only gotten worse with each passing year. I have both worked and lived in high rise buildings in Manhattan (I was on much higher floors on the ones i worked in than in the ones I lived in, but never really liked it.

I don't undestand people who cherish such a view, looking down on everything that looks microscopic. My perfect view is on the second or maybe third floor looking out onto trees over a park where all I can see is lush, green beauty. I have no desire to look down at things. I want my view to be cosy and comforting.

Also, I have worked on high floors in buildings in SF that were on rollers and we would also feel the sway when the ground shook or there were high winds. It made me feel sick. I currently live on the 3rd floor of my building and I don't ever plan on living any higher than this.

[Talitha]

17. You can never be too rich or too thin?

[chowder66]

18. Looks like a big middle finger while ruining the view.

[Scrivener7]

19. Exactly. And in real life it looks even worse.

[lamp_shade]

20. Nope.

[IcyPeas]

21. I'd love to go to the top to see the view.