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And these thin residential towers are being built with the express purpose of putting units higher up. Higher units, better views. Better views, more money. It's literally the highest and best use of that land, what brings in the most bucks. It's whey so few places can support such towers, and only a select few places will. In either case, it will be an improvement on the skyline, which will have a variety of new skyline elements redefining New York for the next century.
The 57th Street gang... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/162381317/original.jpg |
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Where did the 1,495 figure come from?
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From yesterday.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1638/...476d7106_o.jpg https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1649/...9be86cc6_o.jpg Looks like the tower is about to take off. I am surprised there was no piling or any excavation more than about 10 ft done. Can somebody explain how a 1400 ft super slim tower be constructed without deep foundation? |
Sweet baby, it's ready to rise....:cheers:
http://therealdeal.com/2016/02/10/le...-west-57th-st/ Lender Apollo defends economics of 111 West 57th St. February 10, 2016 By Katherine Clarke Quote:
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Correct, bedrock is shallow along W 57th street but the tower does not need to be anchored to resist vertical wind shear force? |
You don't have to blast into bedrock to anchor the tower to it depending on the type of foundation used it isn't usually necessary to dig into the bedrock because you can anchor a tower to bedrock without doing that. In some cases some buildings even supertall skyscrapers don't even go to bedrock. For example the Petronas towers use a special type of piling that is made to reach almost to bedrock between 60 and 100 feet beneath the building and uses friction to anchor the building the piles extend from a large concrete raft foundation structure that anchors the building and the two foundation types work together to allow the building to resist wind and seismic stresses on the building.
In this case they will be able to anchor the building to bedrock. The above just shows that there is no risk to the tower by not going deeper and the only reasons to go deeper are in situations like that described above where the bedrock is far below a building and there is not necessarily a need to anchor directly to bedrock. There are so many variables involved in what type of foundation and anchoring is used that until they start constructing that for this building I could not tell you how they will do it for this tower, but there is no risk of it falling so long as they have designed the structural support system correctly. Even then if there is an issue found later that could most likely be corrected at the time as has been done in the past with other buildings such as the Citigroup Center in New York and the John Hancock Building in Boston. |
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^ That website went online on March 2015. :)
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That 1,495' figure keeps popping up. If true, that would be utterly amazing having two 1,500 footers so close to each other. :crazy:
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/1...7th_street.php Absurdly Luxe Interiors Coming to 111 West 57th Street Monday, December 28, 2015, by Zoe Rosenberg Quote:
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This tower, 30 Hudson, and 340 Flatbush have to be the best projects going on right now. Arguably the most radical designs currently in this century for the area.
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About that 1,495 ft height, we'll see...
http://therealdeal.com/2016/02/18/fi...t-57th-street/ First Look: Inside the sales gallery and model unit at 111 West 57th Street JDS, PMG project has projected sellout of $1.45B http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/up...teinway-11.jpg February 18, 2016 By Katherine Clarke http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/up...teinway-10.jpg http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/up...teinway-12.jpg http://therealdeal.com/wp-content/up...steinway-7.jpg Quote:
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