Fair enough.īut, I gotta say this about 432 Park - It's a bloody box. The newest two tallest residential structures are both in NYC as well, but below that, you have a lot of buildings in Dubai. Okay, looking at the buildings, I can immediately see some differences. I looked specifically at residential structures because, well, the demands are different than for commercial property. I'm not that concerned about whether it's a couple off in the list, just getting a sense of magnitude. It's the 29th tallest building in the world according to wikipedia. It'd be one thing if the 4 links had been to for different towers, but given that they're all to the same one, I would indeed consider it being a lemon of a building to be a possibility.Ĥ32 Park is listed as the 3rd tallest residential structure.
As long as problems don’t crop up before they unload the property, they can do whatever they want.” The people who put up the buildings are not accountable for their quality. The problem is not confined to tall buildings, says a well-known structural engineer who asked to remain anonymous so his career wouldn’t spontaneously combust: “It’s the way development operates in New York. It’s the fulfillment of the kind of scary situation you’re warned about.”Ībsolutely, says Steven Edgett, an elevator specialist and the president of the California-based Edgett Williams Consulting Group: “As soon as I saw the core of 432 Park, alarm bells went off.” The elevator shafts are too tight, he says, making breakdowns a foregone conclusion. Not at all, says James von Klemperer, president of the architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, which plants skyscrapers all over the world: “In a building that thin, this kind of thing can happen, but it shouldn’t.
Do they have to sway? Must the wind whistle through the vents? Will elevator cables unavoidably slap and cabs go out of service? Does the plumbing predictably rebel, creating a 1,000-foot cascade inside the central utility shaft? Are these interruptions of the good life a necessary condition of the high life?
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