As spindly as this one appears,after services eat in, there would not be much left to rent out.
Looks like a poor man’s Saint Louis arch.
I used to build these ‘Cloud Piercers’ for a living. This one would definitely present a very unique challenge, in many ways.
The Big Bend Boondoggle
Ugly with a capital UG!
I predict it will instead, if built, come to be called “the great paperclip”.
“As spindly as this one appears,”
The ‘spindly’ on is just a rough concept. See the one with the elevators as more realistic.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, pack a couple of stairwells, water, plumbing, electrical telecom, HVAC, elevators, etc, and it looks like one small apartment per floor.
Run the elevators up to sky lobbies, then an inclinator to the apex. Start at the four and a half minute mark for anyone who has never ridden one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLVF-Iw9fs
The big paper clip would be a more apt moniker
If the space between is wide enough, there will be daredevil pilots flying through the loop.
Also, it’s going to be very tempting for the Nik Wallenda.
And, there will be unauthorized climbers aplenty.
It would also serve as the 2 ends for a huge hammock.
If the US an New York would allow builders to go beyond 2000 feet crappy buildings like this u wouldnt need to he thought of.
Other than the amount of money wasted on this gaudy rendering, I see nothing impressive about it at all.
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.
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.
