Post by the Scribe on May 16, 2017 1:00:46 GMT -5
Some of these skyscrapers are no more than 50 feet per side. A single condo can cost millions. They sway so much at the top that residents are becoming sea sick. A multi-tonnage counterweight had to be placed atop to stop the swaying. It is run by computers and moves around to stop the sway.
Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Tall?
Ever taller, ever thinner, the new condo towers racing skyward in Midtown Manhattan are breaking records for everything, including price. Sold for $95 million, the 96th floor of 432 Park Avenue will be the highest residence in the Western world. As shadows creep across Central Park, Paul Goldberger looks at the construction, architecture, and marketing of these super-luxury aeries, gauging their effect on the city’s future.
by Paul Goldberger ,
|Photographs by Stephen Wilkes,
|April 9, 2014 12:00 am
These days, it is not just a woman who can never be too rich or too thin. You can say almost exactly the same thing about skyscrapers, or at least about the latest residential ones now going up in New York City, which are much taller, much thinner, and much, much more expensive than their predecessors. And almost every one of them seems built to be taller, thinner, and pricier than the one that came before. Few people are inclined to mourn the end of the age of the luxury apartment building as a boxy slab. But what is replacing it, which you might call the latest way of housing the rich, is an entirely new kind of tower, pencil-thin and super-tall—so tall, in fact, that one of the new buildings now rising in Manhattan, the 96-story concrete tower at the corner of 56th Street and Park Avenue, 432 Park Avenue, will be 150 feet higher than the Empire State Building when it is finished, and taller than the highest occupied floor of the new 1 World Trade Center. And construction on an even taller super-luxury building, 225 West 57th Street, is scheduled to begin next year, so 432 Park’s reign as the city’s tallest residence and second-tallest skyscraper will be short-lived.
These buildings are transforming the streetscape of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and they are transforming the skyline even more. Two new luxury apartment towers in the super-tall category are going up in Tribeca, at least so far. But the biggest impact has been in Midtown, in the blocks between 53rd and 60th Streets, where seven of the new condominiums are either under construction or planned. Four of them are on 57th Street alone, which day by day is becoming less of a boulevard defined by elegant shopping and more like a canyon lined by high walls. (And that’s just the buildings that have been announced. There are others rumored to be in the planning stages, including one that would replace the venerable Rizzoli bookstore, also on West 57th Street.)
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/05/condo-towers-architecture-new-york-city
New super-slim skyscrapers are changing New York's skyline
New Needle Towers Coming to Manhattan
A computer rendering of a super-slender tower planned for 111 W. 57th Street
(JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group/SHoP Architects )
Nov 7, 2013 · by Gisele Regatao
www.wnyc.org/story/dozens-super-skinny-towers-planned-manhattan/
The Manhattan skyline is getting thinner. There are about a dozen new, needle-thin towers planned for New York City.
And they come with a fat price tag — two duplex apartments at the One57 condo tower at 157 West 57th Street have sold for more than $90 million each.
James Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg News, said the towers will be the equivalent of 80 to 90 stories high, and much more slender than a normal building.
"The skinniest of the new towers is about 5,000 square feet and a big, beefy office building of 50 or 60 stories would probably be around 25- or 30-thousand square feet," he said.
To hear an interview with Russell about the trend, click on the audio link.
Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Tall?
Ever taller, ever thinner, the new condo towers racing skyward in Midtown Manhattan are breaking records for everything, including price. Sold for $95 million, the 96th floor of 432 Park Avenue will be the highest residence in the Western world. As shadows creep across Central Park, Paul Goldberger looks at the construction, architecture, and marketing of these super-luxury aeries, gauging their effect on the city’s future.
by Paul Goldberger ,
|Photographs by Stephen Wilkes,
|April 9, 2014 12:00 am
These days, it is not just a woman who can never be too rich or too thin. You can say almost exactly the same thing about skyscrapers, or at least about the latest residential ones now going up in New York City, which are much taller, much thinner, and much, much more expensive than their predecessors. And almost every one of them seems built to be taller, thinner, and pricier than the one that came before. Few people are inclined to mourn the end of the age of the luxury apartment building as a boxy slab. But what is replacing it, which you might call the latest way of housing the rich, is an entirely new kind of tower, pencil-thin and super-tall—so tall, in fact, that one of the new buildings now rising in Manhattan, the 96-story concrete tower at the corner of 56th Street and Park Avenue, 432 Park Avenue, will be 150 feet higher than the Empire State Building when it is finished, and taller than the highest occupied floor of the new 1 World Trade Center. And construction on an even taller super-luxury building, 225 West 57th Street, is scheduled to begin next year, so 432 Park’s reign as the city’s tallest residence and second-tallest skyscraper will be short-lived.
These buildings are transforming the streetscape of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and they are transforming the skyline even more. Two new luxury apartment towers in the super-tall category are going up in Tribeca, at least so far. But the biggest impact has been in Midtown, in the blocks between 53rd and 60th Streets, where seven of the new condominiums are either under construction or planned. Four of them are on 57th Street alone, which day by day is becoming less of a boulevard defined by elegant shopping and more like a canyon lined by high walls. (And that’s just the buildings that have been announced. There are others rumored to be in the planning stages, including one that would replace the venerable Rizzoli bookstore, also on West 57th Street.)
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/05/condo-towers-architecture-new-york-city
New super-slim skyscrapers are changing New York's skyline
New Needle Towers Coming to Manhattan
A computer rendering of a super-slender tower planned for 111 W. 57th Street
(JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group/SHoP Architects )
Nov 7, 2013 · by Gisele Regatao
www.wnyc.org/story/dozens-super-skinny-towers-planned-manhattan/
The Manhattan skyline is getting thinner. There are about a dozen new, needle-thin towers planned for New York City.
And they come with a fat price tag — two duplex apartments at the One57 condo tower at 157 West 57th Street have sold for more than $90 million each.
James Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg News, said the towers will be the equivalent of 80 to 90 stories high, and much more slender than a normal building.
"The skinniest of the new towers is about 5,000 square feet and a big, beefy office building of 50 or 60 stories would probably be around 25- or 30-thousand square feet," he said.
To hear an interview with Russell about the trend, click on the audio link.