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BBL · 24 March 2017, 05:47 AM

New York - plan unveiled for 4,000ft-long, the glass-lined tower "The Big Bend"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...-unveiled.html

-Oiio studio has unveiled designs for curved skyscraper 'The Big Bend' as solution to expensive zoning laws
-Manhattan tower was imagined as a structure to straddle Billionaire's Row on 57th Street in New York City
-The concept tower would need a two-track elevator system that could go round curves and move horizontally

SemperFi · 24 March 2017, 06:06 AM

Wow! That is just wild.
Thanks for posting D.M.

BBL · 24 March 2017, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SemperFi

Wow! That is just wild.
Thanks for posting D.M.

Hey..... I thought so, too! Nowhere else, except NYC

BBL · 24 March 2017, 12:45 PM

It will interesting how the elevators will be engineered.... Looks like people would be rocking in the wind some while they work....

bayerische · 24 March 2017, 05:09 PM

The designers seem to think men in NYC walk around in cylinder/top hats.

RichM · 25 March 2017, 02:33 AM

The New York City Fire Department is gonna love that one.

guy369 · 25 March 2017, 04:31 AM

Looks like a paperclip

ELITEVIDEOGAMES · 25 March 2017, 04:38 AM

With the release of the SS Sky Dweller I am scared to say it will never happen...

GB-man · 25 March 2017, 07:51 AM

That's wild!

BBL · 25 March 2017, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich Mickol

The New York City Fire Department is gonna love that one.

You're right about that!! Almost inconceivable, actually, how it would be serviced for that kind of catastrophe....

RichM · 25 March 2017, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by BBL

You're right about that!! Almost inconceivable, actually, how it would be serviced for that kind of catastrophe....

That type of building gives a whole new meaning to "high rise". I can only hope, sprinklers throughout, concrete encased stairways, intercoms, computerized standpipes and command centers, etc etc. And sometimes that isn't good enough. Think World Trade Center.

They (FDNY) certainly try to stay ahead of, and deal with, any new type of construction the engineers throw at them.

They are the best at what they do.

topgear · 26 March 2017, 03:19 AM

Impressive and I am sure it will be state of the art if it is built.

I read before that whenever a tallest building in the world of some sort is built in a particular country, recession will hit shortly thereafter.
For example, when the Petronas Twin Tower was built in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Asian financial crisis came about in 1997.
When the Burj Khalifa was completed in Dubai in 2008, the property market crashed in Dubai.
The same can also be said for the Empire State Building.

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topgear "TRF" Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Middle East Watch: 116710 LN, PAM390 Posts: 882	Impressive and I am sure it will be state of the art if it is built. I read before that whenever a tallest building in the world of some sort is built in a particular country, recession will hit shortly thereafter. For example, when the Petronas Twin Tower was built in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Asian financial crisis came about in 1997. When the Burj Khalifa was completed in Dubai in 2008, the property market crashed in Dubai. The same can also be said for the Empire State Building.

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