111 West 57th Street

The 111 West 57th Street is a Contemporary skyscraper designed between 2012 and 2015 by SHoP Architects, and built between 2015 and 2022, for a reported $2.00 billion dollars, in New York, NY.

111 West 57th Street is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Steinway Tower.

Its precise street address is 111 West 57th Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 111 West 57th Street has received multiple architecture awards for its architectural design since 2022. The following is a list of such prizes and awards:

• CTBUH Best Tall Building by Height (400 meters category) in 2022
• CTBUH Best Tall Building by Function (Residential or Hotel category) in 2022

The tower rises above the 16-story Steinway Hall concert hall, a New York City Landmark designed in 1925 by Warren and Wetmore, which serves as base for one of the slimmest building ever constructed worldwide. With a width of 18 meters and a height of 435 meters, it has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1.

The building has a total of 60 residential units, 14 of which are located in the Steinway Hall.

SHoP Architects was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 111 West 57th Street a reality:

• WSP in charge of Structural Engineering
• JDS Construction Group as the Main Contractor
• Buro Happold in charge of Facade Consultancy
• JDS Development Group as the Main Developer
• Jaros Baum & Bolles in charge of MEP Engineering
• Studio Sofield in charge of Interior Design

The 111 West 57th Street can be categorized as a Contemporary building.

The 111 West 57th Street uses a frame structure made of reinforced concrete columns and beams.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

The facade of the building however, is load bearing. This doesn't imply that it is a traditional load-bearing wall. Rather, it means that the structure's exterior pillars have been pushed to the very edges, becoming integrated with the facade, and therefore, technically, a part of it.

At the top of the tower, a steel crown serves to conceal a tuned mass damper with tuned steel plates that has been installed to counteract high winds or earthquakes

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features dark reflective glass and terracotta panels.

As the building climbs, the South facade starts retracting in a series of setbacks, culminating in a super slim decorative crown that continues until the building has no surface left to retract and gracefully fades into the sky.