Construction on the building began in 2013, led by JDS Development Group, Property Markets Group, and Spruce Capital Partners and designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, which characterizes itself as “innovators, craftspeople, and problem-solvers” on their website. Units have already been available for move-in within Steinway Hall, the landmarked portion of the project, but now with architecture complete, the development has reached another milestone and is ready to court tower residents. Built at a stunning 24:1 height-to-width ratio, it is now the third-tallest building in New York City, and a living monument to can-we-do-it instead of should-we-do-it. Steinway Tower is already stirring up controversy: According to the Guardian, some locals are comparing it to a giant coffee stirrer, and the 1,428-foot-high structure has somehow managed to fit only 46 units over its 84 stories (or 60 if you include the renovations of historic Steinway Hall at its base). Luckily, the very rich can still waste tremendous amounts of resources to get pretty high in the air by moving into the new, extremely skinny skyscraper now open at 111 West 57th Street in New York City. But after a decade of recovery, developers pushed the fast-forward button on superstructures again-apparently the higher, the better.Space travel may be the newest status symbol for the wealthy elite, but possibilities have opened up for people not quite mega-rich enough to put their money all the way into the outer stratosphere. Post-9/11 fear of taller buildings gave New Yorkers great pause. Local complaints aside, someone’s going to pay, luxury apartment seekers or Central Park sunbathers who will bask in too much shade. Front row seats are always costly, especially on Billionaire's Row. In this area, the intense competition of edifices is accommodating the uber wealthy with massive living spaces and heavenly views overlooking (and in some cases overshadowing) Central Park. Off site, the vocal critics of neighboring One57’s condo construction surely will have strong opinions about the overall superstructure trend, as architects and developers like Extell Development Company, CIM Group and Property Markets Group flex their muscles (and perhaps their egos) to build stronger and higher-topping each other in the process. If the skyscraper is completed effectively, that's a game-changer for construction of New York City skyscrapers. They doubt the superstructure can be completed this way. Naturally, organized union labor has strongly protested this strategy by picketing the site. By summer, developers plan to raise the tower's reinforced cast concrete frame with more non-union personnel.
In fact, the process has already begun-construction managers and non-union subcontractors poured the building's foundation last September. 57th Street tower is creating great controversy because developers plan to erect it with non-union labor. The skinny skyscraper, with its feathered form, was designed by SHoP Architects.The 111 W. The project is being developed in partnership with Property Markets Group and will be built by JDS Construction Group with completion slated for early 2018.
Developers are finalizing a $500 million construction loan, Crain's reported. The tower will feature full-floor and duplex apartments (reportedly only 45 large units total) with 360-degree views, including unparalleled views of Central Park. 57th skinny building, which was approved by New York City last week, is projected to be an 80 stories tall and an implausible 60 feet wide, according to Crain's. 57th Street) slated to be 1,479 feet (1,775 feet including a spire).
That's due to be a temporary title as more super skyscrapers are on the horizon (literally and figuratively)-most notably the future Nordstrom Tower (225 W. Planned by SHoP Architects, the building is already touted as the tallest and most slender residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. On the heels of One57’s condominium (1,005 feet tall) and 432 Park Avenue’s tower (1,396-feet tall), comes word of their future neighbor-111 West 57th Street’s “skinny skyscraper," which will become the city's next superstructure champion at a proposed 1,421 feet tall. The 'Skinny Skyscraper' overlooks and overshadows Central Park.
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