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UrbanImpact · #1 Posted **Mar 30, 2023, 4:41 PM**

Would this be considered the tallest hospital building in the US or world?

BK1985 · #2 Posted **Mar 30, 2023, 9:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

Would this be considered the tallest hospital building in the US or world?

If Wikipedia is accurate, yes.

NYguy · #3 Posted **Mar 31, 2023, 3:58 AM**

If ever there was a tower worthy of going up, it's this one. Cancer touches all of our lives at some point or another. If more space is needed to fight the fight, so be it, at whatever height. Some things are more important than precious views.

BuildThemTaller · #4 Posted **Mar 31, 2023, 1:50 PM**

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If ever there was a tower worthy of going up, it's this one. Cancer touches all of our lives at some point or another. If more space is needed to fight the fight, so be it, at whatever height. Some things are more important than precious views.

Whose views would even be blocked by this? Aren't the adjacent towers all part of Memorial Sloan Kettering?

NYguy · #5 Posted **Mar 31, 2023, 2:42 PM**

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Whose views would even be blocked by this? Aren't the adjacent towers all part of Memorial Sloan Kettering?

Are you kidding? A 600 ft, blocky building on the Upper East Side will block many views. The campus itself is huge.

BuildThemTaller · #6 Posted **Mar 31, 2023, 3:17 PM**

I see a few walk-ups across the street and then, as you mentioned, a bunch of towers that are already there. Most of the residential towers that are tall enough to have a view "blocked" by this are so far away that it won't really matter. There are towers in NYC. That's part of the deal.

NYguy · #7 Posted **Mar 31, 2023, 3:22 PM**

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I see a few walk-ups across the street and then, as you mentioned, a bunch of towers that are already there. Most of the residential towers that are tall enough to have a view "blocked" by this are so far away that it won't really matter. There are towers in NYC. That's part of the deal.

You're just not understanding the concept of a "view". It doesn't matter though.

Innsertnamehere · #8 Posted **Apr 12, 2024, 12:37 PM**

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Would this be considered the tallest hospital building in the US or world?

It would be the second tallest according to Wikipedia.

Toronto also has a massive hospital building proposed, but not quite as tall as this:

https://urbantoronto.ca/database/pro...re-tower.55066

Toronto's would be 554ft tall, but also a larger building than this, as it would have a floor area of about 2.6 million SF: