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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