We know that more and more new buildings are being built in residential areas. In fact, when we compare it with a few centuries ago, we see that the current cities are very different, and the buildings are much more. Due to this situation, the number of skyscrapers that cause eye-catching images in big cities is increasing rapidly.
Now a brand new skyscraper has been built in New York City, USA. Considering the abundance of skyscrapers in the city, this news does not sound very interesting. However, there is one feature that distinguishes this tower, named Steinwey Tower, from the others. What makes this building special is that it managed to go on the record as the world’s thinnest skyscraper.
435 meters high, 24 to 1 length-width ratio
Steinwey Tower, which was started to be built in 2013 according to the news, was recently completed and opened its doors to people. it’s ready for. It is stated that this structure, which is defined as ‘the thinnest skyscraper in the world’ by the company that built the building, has a ratio of length to width of 24:1 and a height of 435 meters. The width of the building is 17 meters. This height also made the tower one of the tallest structures in the western hemisphere.
It was also noted in the statements that there are 84 floors and 60 flats in the building, and the flats have huge prices of between 7.75 million dollars and 66 million dollars. Greg Pasquarelli, the head of SHoP Architects, the architecture company behind the building, also told CNN, that the building is an “extraordinary and epic project”. It was added to the explanations that the building, located in the famous district of the city, Manhattan, was inspired by the history of New York.
It should be noted that such thin skyscrapers are called pencil towers. These structures began to become popular with buildings in Hong Kong in 1970. Afterwards, there was a great increase in the construction of such buildings in many places, especially in US cities such as New York. The 472-meter-high Central Park Tower, also located in New York and opened last year, can be given as an example of such buildings.
Here is the world’s thinnest skyscraper
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