2,400-Foot-Tall Futuristic Tower Proposed for Roosevelt Island
A newly proposed tower for Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island stands to transform the city’s iconic skyline and change the way its residents live and work. French architecture firm Rescubika envisions “Mandragora” as a futuristic, environmentally friendly skyscraper covered in over 10,000 plants. If built, it would be the world’s tallest “carbon sink” tower, absorbing more CO2 than it releases.
It definitely doesn’t look like anything New York City’s ever seen. With its undulating facade rising 2,418 feet into the sky, “Mandragora” is powered by 36 wind turbines and nearly 23,000 square feet of solar panels. Its elongated base is almost as wide as Roosevelt Island itself, which lies in the East River between Manhattan Island to the west and the borough of Queens to the east. In fact, the bottom of the structure looks a lot like a cruise ship docked in the river, albeit one that’s been stretched vertically to almost comical proportions. The organic shape of the tower is a striking contrast to the more rectilinear, symmetrical architecture that surrounds it. The architects wanted it to visually represent a connection between humankind and nature despite its location in one of the world’s biggest metropolises. Developed as a response to the idea of “the city of tomorrow,” which would theoretically become carbon neutral by 2050, the 160-floor tower also incorporates organic materials like wood....
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