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New York was the birthplace of the improbably slender tower in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when numerous buildings, such as the 1917 Bush Tower on W. 42nd Street or the 1897 Gillender Building at Wall and Nassau streets, rose as tall shafts over every inch of their very narrow and high-priced lots. That was before the city imposed zoning laws that restricted, first, building heights and setbacks, then later, a maximum FAR (floor area ratio) formula, explains Skyscraper Museum director Carol Willis. To erect a very tall building on a small site under today's zoning, a developer must purchase available air rights from adjacent low-rise properties. • The three buildings featured in the evening's program are the most slender towers recently completed, but also part of a renaissance of the type in New York. • Sky House is a 55-story through-block thin slice of a building with a 45-foot façade on E. 28th Street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, and only 35 feet on 29th Street. The slenderness ratios for its 588-foot height are therefore 1:13 and 1:17. Similarly, the 42-story spike of 785 Eighth Avenue occupies a wedge-shaped site with narrow frontage of just 23 feet, 8 inches on its narrow side, so has a ratio of 1:18. At 621 feet, One Madison Park, a stack of glass cubes stretching 50 stories, is the tallest of the three buildings, but also relatively fat with a ratio of 1:12. Other tall, thin towers announced, or in the early stages of construction, include 610 Lexington Avenue, as well as 30 Park Place, 50 West Street, and 45 Broad Street, all in lower Manhattan. • http://www.skyscraper.org/PROGRAMS/sl...
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