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265 West 45th Street in New York
Super Slender Tower Building, USA – design by RB Systems
Mar 6, 2018
265 West 45th Street Super Slender Tower
Design: RB Systems
265 West 45th Street Super Slender Tower

The project explores a novel and captivating tower typology which emerged in New York in the last years ? ?The New York?s Super Slender?. Located on a small, currently vacant site on West 45th St which footprint measures at approx. 30x30m only, the tower rises to 400 m in height, and provides modern, ergonomic, sustainable office spaces for multi-floor corporate tenants. The project is another take on a path which skyscraper design will likely be following in the coming years, to meet extreme challenges of constrained and dense city centers, with their shortage of big vacant lots, yet ever-growing demand for new properties.
Form as an Outcome of Structural Concept

The tower utilizes an innovative structural system, which solely determines its appearance. Due to extremely constrained site, the choice was to eliminate perimeter columns and substitute them by a set of steel cables, which run and twist along the height of the tower, allowing for an ultralight, yet sturdy structural assembly. The cables are anchored in a deep foundation, MEP zones and tied back to the core at the upper structural ring. The spiral arrangement of the cables?the ?twist??creates a force of surface te...