Skyscraper

sky scrapping

111 West 57th Street by SHoP Architects (2022)The skinniest skyscraper in the world with a staggering ratio of 24:1. The SHoP Architects-designed luxury tower, which tapers to a pencil-like top, has only one condominium per floor. Situated in an area known as Billionaire’s Row, it faces Central Park to the north and Lower Manhattan to…

October 17, 2024

Sila Blume

Architecture, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York

111 West 57th Street, Architecture, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, skinny, Skyscraper, terra-cotta
Tall and Skinny New Yorker

111 West 57th StreetSteinway Tower (Steinway & Sons)Fourth tallest in the USAThinnest skyscraper of the worldWidth-to-heigth ratio of about 1:24Firstly proposed in 1916Finished in 2021

August 14, 2023

Sila Blume

Architecture, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, Photography

Architecture, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, skinny, Skyscraper, Steinway & Sons, Steinway Tower, thinnest