The race to build the world’s most spectacular skyscraper has reached new heights - and taken a turn in direction.
Designs for ‘The Big Bend’, a slender tower that would transform Manhattan’s skyline, have been unveiled.
Described as the ‘longest building in the world’, the project’s concept drawings reveal a skyscraper reaching an apex then curving back down. And featuring an elevator system that can travel in curves, horizontally and in loops.
This tower really looks like a thinner and curved version of 432 Park Avenue, The tower isn’t that bad but I don’t think this will be approved, at least not this design, I would rather have a 600 meter tower like the Bank of America tower than this
While I’m excited to see a megatall in NYC within my lifetime, I really don’t like this one. It looks like a cheap carnival ride in my opinion. Or that stupid paperclip that tries to help you in word
Agreed. Another super tall on either side would make this the first anthropomorphic building on the skyline. I think we can do without the EffYou Clippy Building.
I understand the hesitation as this building is rather ugly. With that said, I think NYC deserves a megatall. It’s always been the lifeblood of the city to challenge the status quo. I don’t think it is a question of if, but when. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later.
This would be a revolutionary building and a great megatall if it werent for the fact its so ugly. Shame. Sad. (like trump would say)
Hopefully next cycle we will get our megatall.
this concept would be much more eye pleasing if both “legs” were in adjacent lots, or even diagonally across the street from each other. Also the top being rounded like that looks kinda corny. It would look awesome if in my closer together concept toward the top they angled toward each other to top off at a point.
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Ignore the dots, had to put them in there for formatting. The solid lines are sky bridges.
Without the sky bridges it’s still better than the arch proposal.
I would prefer something like the Bank of America building shape wise not cladding wise , I might make a sketch on paper of a megatall design I would like to see one day [quote=“tokilamockingbrd, post:19, topic:3473”]
Ignore the dots, had to put them in there for formatting. The solid lines are sky bridges.
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