>It is feared the slowdown could see buyers pull out of agreed deals that are yet to be closed, and some deals that are already signed could be threatened by legal clauses that give buyers rights in the event of construction delays.
>One of the projects at risk of seeing a decline in interest is the 91-story, 1,420 feet high, 111 West 57th Street, which reaches around a quarter of a mile into the sky.
>According to the Financial Times, many deals include an 'outside date' which allows buyers who have already paid to walk away with their deposits if a building is not complete by the deadline.
>111 West 57th Street is approaching its outside date within weeks, according to the Times, and will it kick in if an extension is not agreed.
> stunning views that overlook Central Park and stretch towards Harlem and New Jersey Yeah, I'm sure those views of new swaziland with niggers as far as you can see are 'stunning'
Kevin Rivera
They honestly are; it's weirdly comforting being in an ivory tower watching over the serfs.
Anthony Turner
What is with all the little pencil skyscrapers being built in NY all of the sudden. It makes the skyline look atrocious.
Nicholas Lee
When you decide on the building each floor has an increasing price versus the last. So, the 100th floor is much much more expensive than the 6th. The reason these are becoming more popular is because the footprint is becoming much more expensive expanding outward than the price of additional floors.
Justin Allen
Does living in a building that tall have any effects on someone’s body?
Christopher Adams
Why is it so thin? By the looks of it there's barely enough room for a normal sized flat, let alone utilities and an elevator. How about anti-sway, how are they going to address that problem?
William Roberts
>wood sheathing on a skyscraper the absolute state of americucks
Jordan Garcia
Wait, what the fuck is this thing? Why am I just now hearing about this?
Gavin Evans
is that thing made of plywood?
Brody Mitchell
What is that supposed to be?
Zachary Torres
You get motion sick in the mildest breeze.
Liam Carter
>not living in a literal ivory tower overlooking the plebs
They’re called Pencil Towers and are taking advantage of zoning laws. regulations restrict the amount of land that can be built on within an area, a loophole allows for the transference of "air rights" from one plot to another. So developers could buy a small parcel of land, then buy air rights from adjacent plots and stack these to gain permission to build a tall tower. For example, if an existing building is shorter than its maximum allowed height then the developer of a new adjacent property could purchase the unused air rights, and stack them to the air rights of their existing plot
Jaxson Thompson
I wonder how fast the market for high rise condos will crash when the first one of these buildings collapse with all the people inside due to poor construction or bad cement. That's not a good feeling to have, that you're building may collapse at some point, especially for the typical neurotic New Yorker.
Jace Lewis
god that building look fucking cheap and ugly wtf seriously jewyork?
David Peterson
The citadel from HL2
Ian Brooks
See In very tall buildings there is usually a pendulum inside that keeps it stable in the event of the wind blowing, some also build aerodynamic structures that can withstand wind pressure.
Yeah I'm sure the architects didn't think about ANY of that.
Fucking retard
Lucas Young
The funniest thing is that more and more of New York penthouses are becoming literally ivory towers - bright white everywhere. Why? Because it looks nice when it's well maintained, and it is expensive to maintain. Hell, an open window in NYC will stain a white wall.
Lucas Peterson
billion dollars doesn't go very far in NYC
Dylan Jackson
Slovenia dude! Can you believe this crap? There’s some retarded race to build these engineering “marvels” but it’s crazy. Especially when one considers that the reason COVID-19 hit NYC so hard was their sewer systems are vertical. LA fared MUCH better because LA is a horizontal city. In fact all the “horizontal cities” like Albuquerque, Phoenix, even Denver to an extent have MUCH less virus. I just saw the article today “farts may spread virus.” LOL
Carter Lopez
imagine if this absolute shitstick of a urethral sounding rod fell over Imagine how much of the city would be absolutely rekt It looks like it has zero room for any kind of seismic modulation mechanism which is “fine” as long as the area remains totally seismically stable but what about wind? hardened and damped Japanese buildings less than half the height of this thing are nauseating in a windstorm, what the fuck will this thing do when the next big hurricane hits? what kind of anti terror measures are going to be taken in the vicinity of the structure? remember NYC is the place that is so badly maintained that city blocks literally detonate when 100-year-old iron gas mains beneath them rust through and dump their entire flow capacity into the ancient substructures beneath this unmanaged nightmare of municipal slovenliness
Christian Evans
I saw that documentary about the one in Dubai and the “weight” on the one in Indonesia. Can you imagine being on the 100th floor in Dubai during a 100 mph dust storm?
Christopher Allen
Atleast we know what building needs to burn first.
Jason Collins
>all these brainlets not understanding the necessity of flexibility in a super thin, supertall skyscraper and shitting on the use of wood
Hey can you dumb fucking non-Americans just shut the fuck up regarding skyscrapers? Youre fucking embarassing yourselves.
Mason Ortiz
There were complaints about the huge shadow that monstrosity was projected to cast over central Park, but money talks.
Jayden Carter
What kind of person pays 59m for a cuckshed in the sky?
Matthew Moore
Architects fuck up. Read up on Kansas City Hotel Bridge disaster.
Ian Powell
how in the FUCK will that thing stay up straight?
Jayden Davis
>spic doesn't know what concrete forms are be gone, taco vendor
Charles Turner
>air rights Jewish fuckery will never cease to amaze me.
