Steve Freihon/Related-Oxford
New York, New York
Highlights
- To reduce the building movement cause by strong winds and earthquakes for occupant comfort, the project team designed a tuned mass damper with a 730-ton pendulum that hangs from the 92nd floor.
- The project team used high-tech, energy conserving, transparent glass materials and innovative lighting design to achieve a crystal-clear building.
- The tower’s high-speed elevators takes only 39 seconds to reach the observatory on the 89th floor.
- Each of the eight repeating pagoda-like modules has eight floors and has a narrower floor plan base and wider top varying between 2,000 and 2,500 square meters (21,500 to 27,000 square feet).
- The project also includes a five-story deep basement and a surrounding six-story retail structure.