Which skyscrapers have floors suspended by stilts/cantilevers/arches/etc?
(Observation towers don’t count.)
I’ll start with one of the most famous examples: Citigroup Center in New York.
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I’d exclude columns from the comment description, all buildings have columns or load bearing walls.
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Done! Thanks for the feedback.
Got a building?
Cool idea. I’ll start with an obscure one: Stilts Building in Hartford CT (Irwin Joseph Hirsch Architect, 1981)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25229906@N00/31959786517
Rainier Tower in Seattle (Minoru Yamasaki, architect, 1977)
https://buffaloah.com/a/virtual/us/seatt/rain/rain.html
Base of the Cheesegrater in London (Rogers Stirk Harbour Architects, 2014)
https://rshp.com/projects/office/the-leadenhall-building/
Unbuilt proposal for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Architects, 1969)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/319755642267164931/
Italian Embassy in Brasilia (Pier Luigi Nervi, architect, 1976)
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I don’t know if it’s an architecturally accurate term, but I think of these as “stilts.”
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I would agree with that, and it’s definitely an architecturally appropriate term. 
It’s the rule of rectangles, all stilts are columns but not all columns act as stilts alone.
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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale (Gordon Bunshaft/SOM, architects, 1963)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/beinecke-rare-book-and-manuscript-library–561894490991462848/
https://www.som.com/projects/yale-university-beinecke-rare-book-and-manuscript-library/
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While we’re in the world of university campuses, I have to include UCLA’s Bunche Hall. This was part of my daily walk to classes when I was an undergrad. Even though I thought it was the ugliest building in the world, it’s undeniably impressive to walk beneath.
(Wikimedia Commons)
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It’s not a skyscraper, but the San Antonio Pyramid building.
And some more in Boston…
100 Federal Street
South Station Tower under construction.
The building is being built over the arched train plaza.
Bank of America Financial Center
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Civic Tower, Sydney. The Masonic Centre below was completed in 1978, the tower was only started and finished about 25 years later, to the original 1970s design:
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The sadly never-built 2 Bond Street project in Sydney, from 1988:
The architect was the late Australian architect, John Andrews, whose international commissions included the CN Tower in Toronto and the former Intelsat HQ in Washington DC.
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I think we had this in a different thread earlier.
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Very sad news about the Birmingham, England proposal
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Some cool/weird never-built buildings in this article.
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