The thinnest skyscraper in the world: Steinway Tower - Parametric Architecture

111 West 57th Street, besides known arsenic Steinway Tower, was designed by SHoP Architects and completed successful 2021. The gathering is located connected Billionaires’ Row successful Midtown Manhattan; the skyscraper’s plan was unveiled successful 2013, and groundwork began the pursuing year, but the task stopped successful 2017 for fiscal reasons.

Later, arsenic the enactment continued, the skyscraper reached a ace tallness successful 2018. The operation became the world’s thinnest skyscraper, with a height-to-width ratio of astir 1:24, and 1 of the tallest buildings successful the United States.

The architects usage terracotta, the archetypal worldly of Manhattan skyscrapers portion designing a operation that is some iconic and successful harmony with its surroundings. With a modern exertion method, bronze accented terracotta (terracotta) tiles basal retired connected the eastbound and westbound facades with their intertwining wavy pattern. The sides of the skyscraper facing Central Park northbound and Lower Manhattan southbound person solid curtain walls.

SHoP Architects designed the 435 m tower, and WSP USA was the structural technologist for the project. At the aforesaid time, Jaros, Baum & Bolles was the technologist successful complaint of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing.

BuroHappold designed the Steinway Tower’s facade, and Studio Sofield designed the interior spaces. JDS Development Group restored the landmarked Steinway Hall and its interior, but Walter L. Hopkins planned the interior of the archetypal Steinway Hall. Steinway Hall is besides a designated metropolitan landmark and is hailed arsenic a “timeless monument to classical euphony and architecture.”

The gathering contains 84 stories supra crushed level oregon 85, including the extortion slab. According to the New York City Department of City Planning, the operation has a gross level country of 28,170.5 sqm.

The Steinway Tower, which has a azygous residence connected each floor, houses 60 residences, including 14 residential units successful the iconic Steinway building. Additionally, the operation features luxury amenities specified arsenic a 25-meter swimming pool, a backstage eating room, and a two-story fittingness halfway with a terrace.

Gregg Pasquarelli, manager of SHoP Architects, emphasizes that they are doing thing that has ne'er been done earlier and states that, arsenic New Yorkers, they are incredibly arrogant to adhd a caller icon to their city.

Project Info

Developers: JDS Development Group, Property Markets Group, Spruce Capital Partners
Architect: SHoP Architects
Interior Architect: Studio Sofield
Restoration: Jan Hird Pokorny Associates
Construction: JDS Construction Group
Structural Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk
Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineer: Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Lighting: L’Observatoire International
Curtain Wall Consultant: Buro Happold
Civil Engineer: AKRF Engineering, P.C.
Acoustics: Longman Lindsey
Geotechnical Engineer: Mueser Ruttedge
Completed: 2022 (residential tower) / 1925 (Steinway Hall)
Renovated: 2019–2021 (Steinway Hall)
Area: 53,172.9 sqm