Plans for a site located at 265 West 45th Street in New York City's Midtown district are beginning to take shape as developer Extell moves forward with a potential project there. New York YIMBY reports that the developer recently filed demolition permits for a series of four-story masonry structures at the address that will be cleared to make way for the development.
According to New York YIMBY, architects RB Systems have proposed a 101-story, 1,312-foot-tall cylindrical tower for the site. The speculative tower proposal came to light in 2018 and is one of several potential buildings that has been proposed for the site.
The slender tower is remarkable in that its structural system is made up of steel cables, rather than columns, that tie into the building's foundations and core. At the top of the structure, a computer-controlled, ring-shaped damper will continuously recalibrate itself to best counteract the dramatic swaying that can take place when high winds press against the tower's upper levels.
Along the ground, a minimal glass-enclosed lobby would meet the ground unceremoniously as a metallic "halo" provides an awning over the tower's main entrances.
A construction timeline for the project has not been unveiled.
An enormous structure in the middle of a high-density urban environment that depends on a stable power grid to remain erect is precisely what the world has been hankering for.
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A Google search reveals that RB Systems is the "firm" of one Rustem Baishev, Assoc. AIA - a student at Columbia. Sounds a lot like a good act of self promotion from an enterprising bloke but hardly a serious proposal. He has been publicizing the design fora year now.
http://www.arcstreet.com/2018/...
Cylindrical because fuck your furniture.
"a computer-controlled, ring-shaped damper will continuously recalibrate itself"
A giant computerized dildo, what could possibly go wrong?
The ring around the base ensures against loss of rigidity.
I doubt Barnett is considering this design. A near quarter mile of boutique office space doesn't sound like his jam at all.
There's much more impressive air rights available here.
An enormous structure in the middle of a high-density urban environment that depends on a stable power grid to remain erect is precisely what the world has been hankering for.
you have doubts?
All these tall, thin towers will fail. especially relying on active dampers — computer cannot overcome the impossible else the FUI bridge would not have failed; tall, thin stuff like bamboo only survives because it bends in the wind, sometimes almost flat to the ground — and sometimes it breaks — good thing nobody actually lives in them.
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