I'm starting on schematic design for a high high end residential urban building. Its not urban infill, the plot has setbacks and the resulting footprint is 15m x 45m. Any precedents, regardless of typology, are much appreciated.
15m? By New york standards, that's a big building!
There's a few high-rises recently built in Manhattan that are just under or at 8-10m wide. "Hell's needle" (785 Eighth Avenue, Hell's Kitchen) is 7.1 m wide and at 43 stories makes it the narrowest skyscraper ever built (by ratio standards).
There's some rumors that there's a 5.5m 58-story cigarette tower going up in Greenwich and a 6.8m 66-story tower going up in the West Village.
Also don't forget the row of hotels at 39th street and 9th avenue. They're just under 15m wide, 6-units per floor and upwards of 30-40 stories. I believe there's 4 total on that block. Up at 39th and 10th, there's a ultra-lux hotel around the bus station that's relatively thin, pretty spectacular looking and ultra narrow.
i would like to see the circulation patterns in those buildings. I live in Portland, the narrowest buildings we would get is 15' by 65' by 3 storey tall. Even in most asian countries i never felt as assemblage as i did when i was in NY.
Maybe time for a study trip to Hong Kong? There's enough tall, skinny high-rises (most of them residential) for a certain school in Zurich to publish a book on them.
Haven't been able to get my hands on it yet, but it's called: "Hong Kong Typology: An Architectural Research on Hong Kong Building Types" and many of those typologies are bound to be tall and skinny. Not that the architecture of most of the individual buildings stands out, but there's only a few ways to layout a resi building with that type of footprint.
This article on how Hong Kong's housing situation came to be is really interesting as well: http://people.virginia.edu/~pc4v/pdf/009_transcultural_hybrid.pdf
Also, check out what Charles Correa does sectionally with his project Kanchanjunga (http://www.charlescorrea.net/). I'm not a big fan of the elevation, but the double-height outdoor living terraces would be great anywhere, provided you can convince your contractor to chop up his slab a bit.
A bit unrelated but Michael Wolf takes amazing photos of Hong Kong's ubiquitous high-rise living: http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/
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I'm starting on schematic design for a high high end residential urban building. Its not urban infill, the plot has setbacks and the resulting footprint is 15m x 45m. Any precedents, regardless of typology, are much appreciated.
http://www.murphyjahn.com/lh.html
15m? By New york standards, that's a big building!
There's a few high-rises recently built in Manhattan that are just under or at 8-10m wide. "Hell's needle" (785 Eighth Avenue, Hell's Kitchen) is 7.1 m wide and at 43 stories makes it the narrowest skyscraper ever built (by ratio standards).
There's some rumors that there's a 5.5m 58-story cigarette tower going up in Greenwich and a 6.8m 66-story tower going up in the West Village.
Also don't forget the row of hotels at 39th street and 9th avenue. They're just under 15m wide, 6-units per floor and upwards of 30-40 stories. I believe there's 4 total on that block. Up at 39th and 10th, there's a ultra-lux hotel around the bus station that's relatively thin, pretty spectacular looking and ultra narrow.
Palladium-Flat by Johannes Kappler in Groningen (NL)
Raimund Abraham - Austrian Cultural Forum
i would like to see the circulation patterns in those buildings. I live in Portland, the narrowest buildings we would get is 15' by 65' by 3 storey tall. Even in most asian countries i never felt as assemblage as i did when i was in NY.
@nonneutral - That's the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title - one of my favorites
Raimund Abraham - Austrian Cultural Forum
@trace and nonneutral those 2 photos are of Raimund Abraham's - Austrian Cultural Forum right?
Nam - Look at my post above yours - that'a RA's Austrian Cultural Forum. trace posted Nouvel I think.
Wohnanlage Boligslangen, Arkitema
Maybe time for a study trip to Hong Kong? There's enough tall, skinny high-rises (most of them residential) for a certain school in Zurich to publish a book on them.
Haven't been able to get my hands on it yet, but it's called: "Hong Kong Typology: An Architectural Research on Hong Kong Building Types" and many of those typologies are bound to be tall and skinny. Not that the architecture of most of the individual buildings stands out, but there's only a few ways to layout a resi building with that type of footprint.
This article on how Hong Kong's housing situation came to be is really interesting as well: http://people.virginia.edu/~pc4v/pdf/009_transcultural_hybrid.pdf
Also, check out what Charles Correa does sectionally with his project Kanchanjunga (http://www.charlescorrea.net/). I'm not a big fan of the elevation, but the double-height outdoor living terraces would be great anywhere, provided you can convince your contractor to chop up his slab a bit.
A bit unrelated but Michael Wolf takes amazing photos of Hong Kong's ubiquitous high-rise living: http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/
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