Meh. William Overstreet Jr. did something MUCH more hella awesome than that in 1944.
Posted on 03/22/2017 6:25:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Now THAT’S loopy! Behold The Big Bend - the incredible U-shaped New York skyscraper dubbed the 'longest building in the world' is unveiled
Oiio studio has unveiled designs for curved skyscraper 'The Big Bend' as solution to expensive zoning laws Manhattan tower was imagined as a structure to straddle Billionaire's Row on 57th Street in New York City Stretching 4,000ft-long, the glass-lined tower would need to feature an elevator that defies all current designs.
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Ugly. Period.
No, there is an elevator above and an elevator below the inclinator. From the train level, you can ride up a vertical elevator to the mezzanine. From there, you can take the inclinator to the basement level of the old 7-11 tower, or the same level underground on the trolley side. From the basement level, you can ride another elevator to street level. From the train to the basement level, you also have stairs or escalators (when they work) as an alternative. From the basement level to the street, there is an escalator in the tower, but on the other side, it is the elevator or the stairs.
But there is no elevator from the mezzanine (located under Central expressway) to the top. There are also a pair of hidden emergency tunnels and stairs to the surface from the train level.
LOL!
And don’t forget a mechanical floor every thirty, or so.
Also a nice open atrium, but because of the various required shafts, you go HIGH with a bit of trompe l’oeil, that’s the ticket!
Maybe they could be like the Lloyds Building and move some of that junk to the outside?
Or just design it like a Texas banker would. Substitute inches for feet. But use lots of rows of tiny windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_littlest_skyscraper
remember clippy the MS paperclip?
I work in mid-town Manhattan and I often take walks around town to check out all the construction that's always going on. In fact, there are several 1,000+ foot skyscrapers rising at this very moment.
I know a lot of people here hate NYC but it's still a symbol of American greatness.
I suspect the laws of economic reality, more than building code limit the height.
On the other hand there is the 105 floor Ryugyong Hotel of Doom.
By the time construction was complete, McMahon had left Wichita Falls and perhaps even Texas, taking with him the balance of the investors’ money.
(US $2,800,000 in 2017)
And Mr J.D. McMahon is never heard from again?
Heh ... we old....
Cool looking up at the construction but cool looking down at the ‘ants’ moving about on the sidewalks also. I agree about NY City also...a great place!
Meh. William Overstreet Jr. did something MUCH more hella awesome than that in 1944.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
I remember one as a kid. Some engineering ideas just get recycled...:^)
These are the blueprints for structural ironwork of Big Bend, and they are very, very strange.
Nothing more than two 2000’ towers attached at the top.
Compare it to building #3
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/22/17/3E8628A300000578-4339282-Explaining_the_change_in_architectural_direction_the_team_cited_-m-30_1490202298998.jpg
111 West 57th Street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_West_57th_Street
(almost the same size as Sears Tower)
Looks about the same foot print as one tower of The Big Bend.
Burj Khalifa and Shanghai Tower have already solved the mechanicals of 2000’+ buildings
Plus these are already on the horizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_tallest_buildings
By 2021 there will be 9 buildings 2000’+
3 currently under construction.
3 more at 1900’+
By then there should be 37 buildings taller than Sears Tower
28 of these are currently under construction.
I remember when I worked on 311 South Wacker.
It was the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, at the time.
Today, 27 years later, it’s barely a footnote in construction.
Wacky. I like it. Engineers are going to have a field day with that.
Not the first time!
“Spengler: The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.
Stantz: Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.
Venkman: [to jailbirds suddenly looking over the blueprints] Everybody getting this so far? So what? I guess they just don’t make them like they used to, huh?
Stantz: [slaps Venkman up the head] No! Nobody ever made them like this! I mean, the architect was either a certified genius or an authentic wacko!”
IMO, none of the mega towers make money.
The top 135:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings
China 60
UAE 26
US 19( No mega towers, 600m+)
The engineering and logistics, fascinating.
Useful, cost effective; not so much.
Hmmm...
Sounds familiar.
Why does the name Zuul come to mind, Grunt?
Hmmmmm????
Zuul?
A common name perhaps?
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