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• #THE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS BREAKS CODE#

Engineers have a few tricks they can use to keep the building from swaying too much, like constructing setbacks on the building’s facade, leaving the glass out of mechanical floors and installing a tuned mass damper at the top of the building.Ībove: 432 Park left out the glass on mechanical floors to allow wind to flow through the building and reduce the sway. Image courtesy of SERHANT. That’s a width-to-height ratio of 1:24.Īnd of course, when you’re 400 metres in the air, you have to think about the wind. The 85-storey building is officially the world’s thinnest skyscraper - it’s just 18 metres wide but rises to 435 metres in height. Today, the thinnest of the bunch is 111 West 57th Street. From there, 53 West 53rd, 111 West 57th Street and Central Park Tower all joined the ranks of super-slender skyscrapers on Manhattan’s skyline. Then came 432 Park Avenue with a ratio of 1:15. One57 was the first of the bunch to complete in 2014 with a ratio of 1:8. But the towers on Billionaires’ Row go far beyond that.

#THE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS BREAKS CODE#

New York’s building code considers a building “slender” if it has a width-to-height ratio of 1:7. It’s sort of like piecing together a very expensive puzzle.Ībove: Developers combined the air rights of nearby properties in order to build taller than typically allowed. That meant that they could combine those new air rights to build their property taller, and ensure those nearby buildings won’t block their newly built views of Central Park. To develop the small sites they’d secured with buildings tall enough to offer Central Park views, developers on Billionaires’ Row spent years acquiring the air rights for the properties around their lots. In Manhattan space comes at a premium, which means if you want to build big, you have to build up.

But Billionaires’ Row has given rise to a new form of skyscraper entirely – the super-slender residential tower. Skyscrapers have slowly been getting taller and thinner for years.

Nestled alongside iconic New York landmarks like Carnegie Hall, The Russian Tea Room and The Plaza Hotel, you’ll also find 432 Park Avenue, 53W53, 111W57, One57 and Central Park Tower.Ī little further out you have 220 Central Park South, 520 Park Avenue and 252 East 57th Street.Ībove: Billionaires' Row is a stretch of ultra-luxury buildings on and around West 57th Street. There are no official gates to Billionaires’ Row, but the name refers to a handful of buildings on and around West 57th Street. Just south of Central Park sit some of the most exclusive homes anywhere in the world. So, we wanted to know – what made something like Billionaires’ Row possible and what impact is it having on the world of wealth, architecture and construction? Pushing the bounds of engineering Meanwhile, finding an affordable apartment in the city as a non-billionaire can be nearly impossible. Today, the towers are an astounding display of wealth, prestige and engineering firsts. Billionaires’ Row in New York City set off a super-slender skyscraper revolution.