![]() Raffles City, Chongqing, China by Moshe Safdie (2020) The central volume is lifted from the ground, creating a pedestrian connection through the project to the Chicago Riverwalk." The varying height of the towers breaks up the mass of the overall project, while making it stand out in the Chicago skyline. "The different coats ensure that each level receives similar levels of sunlight, while also adding variety to the exterior. Six different glass coatings enliven the aquamarine-colored facade. "The project consists of three interlocking towers each made of stacked truncated pyramids, making for undulating surfaces. Regis Chicago, the world's tallest building designed by a woman, brings intriguing surface qualities and an iconic shape to a residential skyscraper. The photo is by Angie McMonigal Photography Finally, the gap in between the core and the main tower reveals the building's imposing megaframe structure, further dramatizing the split in the building." "Meanwhile, the detached core allows for 270-degree views from the office floors. This provides for a more interesting experience than a typical central-core office, where people access upper stories through the core and corridors in the tower's dark interior. "Pedestrian sky bridges connect the core with the office areas, giving people panoramic views of the city as they walk to their workplace. "Thom Mayne and his firm innovated in this supertall by detaching the core, which houses the elevators and mechanical services, from the main office building. Hanking Center, Shenzhen, China by Morphosis Architects (2021) "Finally, the tower's glazed terra-cotta tiles is a nod to the city's historic buildings, while also pointing to the future of the skyscrapers in New York, which is trying to move away from all-glass towers." "Emerging from a narrow 60-feet- wide, the 1,428-foot-tall (435-metre-tall) residential tower slowly steps back until it disappears into the sky, a throwback to New York's famous "wedding cake" skyscrapers from the Roaring Twenties, like the Empire State Building. 111 West 57th Street has an extreme slenderness ratio of 1:24. Most structural engineers consider a building slender if it's at least seven times as tall as it is wide, with a so-called slenderness ratio of 1:7. "111 West 57th Street is interesting because it pushes the limits of skyscraper engineering, being the world's most slender skyscraper. Read on for Al's picks of 11 supertalls that have changed the way we think about skyscrapers.ġ11 West 57th Street, New York, USA by SHoP Architects (2022) "So it's interesting, as architects, to understand the culture of a place and the publicness of a particular building, and we need to make sure that people will also embrace the symbol that will represent," he continued. "If you look at London, for instance, because there's so much public debate around these buildings, and because the public actually has a say, this can really make or break the development or planning of a certain project." "For some of those critics that recognize that has a lot of issues and these towers represent inequities that exist," he said. However, Al did acknowledge that the supertall skyscrapers should be critiqued and that public debate is probably the best mechanism for managing the tension surrounding them. Read: Seven super-skinny skyscrapers changing New York City's skyline "But if you just look at the aesthetics of the towers, you can really see that there's more diversity now than there was before," Al continued. "Should New York change that system?" he asked "That's a good question because it also has some benefits that it gives transparency to property owners and what they can build." In New York, Al is confident that regulations like Local Law 97, which penalizes buildings with high carbon emissions, and the re-cladding of older skyscrapers is contributing to changing building culture in the city.Ĭommenting on the recent superskinny skyscrapers in Manhattan, Al said that the right of use allows much of New York's skyline to be constructed without community input, making it different from many of the cities on the list. "There's more diversity now than there was before" "We're seeing a lot more diversity and I think that's probably a good thing for the skyline." "It's not all just sleek glass towers anymore, right?" he continued. "Because we can keep our cities more compact, we can reduce the amount of land that we consume, we can spend more resources on relatively smaller units of land," he said. The diversity of designs currently being created can also positively contribute to cities, he said. Al believes that the intersection of changing zoning laws and ever-expanding populations make supertalls more likely and that they can potentially deal with growing populations. ![]()
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