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> The enormous costs to build super talls would go much further in myriad other ways, even just by making a few tall or many regular size buildings. Note that
by dionidium 6y ago
> The enormous costs to build super talls would go much further in myriad other ways, even just by making a few tall or many regular size buildings.
Note that these supertalls only exist in the first place because it's artificially difficult to build regular-sized buildings in Manhattan. It's very unlikely anybody would have bothered building anything in this specific form if not for the onerous zoning codes the developers were skirting when they designed them.
More info: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/gaming-new-york-s-skyscraper-height-zoning-laws https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/gaming-ne...
- tedunangst 6y agoI'm not sure that article supports your conclusion. They made oversized mechanical floors to evade height limits. They could have made normal sized floors and still complied with zoning regulations. If the zoning regulations had permitted denser buildings, it would still be just as tall, but with more interior floors. Making the building ultra tall was the point, not an accidental quirk of zoning.
- dionidium 6y agoYes, of course they wanted the building to be tall. The claim is that it wouldn't be super-tall, skinny, and with so much empty space, if not for the particulars of NYC zoning law. If they were allowed to make a normally-proportioned building on an entire lot, then they most likely would have done that. But they aren't.