Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, making it “the slimmest skyscraper in the world,” according to the developers.
The midtown Manhattan development includes 60 apartments spanning the tower’s 84 floors and the adjacent Steinway Hall building.
The tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects and built by JDS Development, Property Markets Group and Spruce Capital Partners, began construction in 2013. Gregg Pasquarelli, principal at SHoP Architects, calls it the building is “a project of extraordinary proportions and majestic monuments” in an email to CNN.
The Steinway Tower is obscured only by One World Trade Center and the Central Park Tower in the New York City skyline. Credit: Liberalists
Super slim skyscrapers, also known as pencil towers, became a prominent feature of the Hong Kong skyline in the 1970s. Since then, major cities like New York have followed.
The architects say their main goal was to create a new and bold interpretation of the New York skyline, while honoring the site’s historic roots.
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“Any preconceptions our team had about skyscrapers in the New York City development were replaced by the opportunity to do something that had never been done before,” says Pasquarelli.
This super-tall tower is an addition to Steinway Hall, a historic 1925 building known as the former home of piano maker Steinway and Sons and a concert hall. This old cultural center has been converted into luxury homes.
The tower’s facade consists of terracotta blocks, a material that can change color and texture when seen in different lights and from different angles.
Steinway Tower is currently open to new residents, but while the building’s basement is too thin, prices are definitely not, ranging from $7.75 million for a two-bedroom apartment to $66 million for a unit. attic house.
This story has been updated to reflect that prices start at $7.75 million for a 2 bedroom apartment, not a studio as stated earlier.
