so here we go,
architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group has announced the
completion of The Spiral, the studio's first supertall skyscraper and first
commercial high-rise in New York City that features a "ziggurat silhouette",
the building is 1,031 feet (314 metres) tall making it a
super tall skyscraper, which is a skyscraper between 300 meters (984 feet) and
600 meters (1,968 feet) tall. Located along the High Line, the 66-storey
building gets its moniker from a series of stepped terraces wrapped around its
exterior,
"The Spiral punctuates the northern end of the High
Line, and the linear park appears to carry through into the tower, forming an
ascending ribbon of lively green spaces, extending the High Line to the
skyline," said Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
founder Bjarke Ingels,
"The Spiral ensures that every floor of the tower opens
up to the outdoors, creating hanging gardens and cascading atria that connect
the open floor plates from the ground floor to the summit into a single
uninterrupted workspace," said Ingels,
"The string of terraces wrapping around the building expands the daily life of the tenants to the outside air and light, as the trees and grasses, flowers and vines have taken root over the last two summers, The Spiral is slowly becoming an ascending ribbon of green wrapping around the entire silhouette of the tower–like a 1,000-foot-tall (304 metres) vine at the scale of the city's skyline." the 2.8 million-square-foot (260,128 square metres) structure will host offices and a private event space on the uppermost floor,
the Spiral was developed by Tishman Speyer and built
by Turner.
BIG collaborated with Adamson
Associates and structural engineer WSP Cantor Seinuk on its design,
what an amazing looking building.
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