http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-new-...5761?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews What a mess.. The supertall boom in New York City is happening. Although we've seen a few different visualizations of how this might look, here's a series of brand-new images that puts the changing skyline in perspective, with two dozen proposed or under-construction supertalls that will irrevocably change the New York City skyline by 2018. Over at CityLab, Kriston Capps posts this series of renderings from City Realty that focus on the superskinny additions to West 53rd Street (now nicknamed "Billionaire's Row"), but you can also see the cluster of supertalls in the Financial District in the distance. After years of lagging behind other high-minded cites like Dubai and Mumbai, New York seems to be back in the skyscraper race in a major way. [CityLab]
Helps to have bedrock as the underlying foundation. Remember that the prehistoric super continent "Pangaea" broke apart along the US eastern seaboard and the rock that supports Manhattan Island has been stable almost 200 million years. It wouldn't surprise me one bit to see the Hudson river or the Long Island sound modified to accomodate an ever expanding population. It's 10million today. What will it be in 2050? Where will they put all these people...? There's only one way to expand.. Vertically..
No fucking way. I'm a huge fan of dense urban areas, but it's terribly unhealthy to live that far from the ground for any appreciable length of time. You get more than five stories from the street and you're fucked. Humans need to have some connection to the street life below, so they can interact with it easily. Not to mention all the wasted energy moving people, electricity, water, etc. up those ridiculous vertical distances. Those buildings are dinosaurs about to go extinct.
no worries. Im sure those that can afford to live there wont be spending all day in their sky high pad.
I am currently in Asia and even in a dump like Manila there are plenty of high rise condos going up. I currently live on the 24th floor of a 65 story building. The building next door is still being built and it is already taller. The other one next door is 71 stories and Trump has one going up as well that should be in the same general height. There are projects like this going up all over Manila. There are over 25 million people that live in Manila so nowhere to go but up. I was in Hong Kong in May and everything there is high, the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong occupies like floor #100-120 of the ICC Building and has a swimming pool on the 118th floor making it the highest swimming pool in the world. I could be in Malaysia in a few weeks in Kuala Lumpur has the tallest twin towers (Petronas Towers) and there is a ton of vertical living. I am a geek for urban living and I love skyscrapers so for me I always think it's cool. Sad but a life highlight for me was taking a dump at the bathroom on the observation deck of Taipei 101 when it was the tallest building in the world. I think it is now like 6 or 7 or barely in the top 10.
Sounds like what's happening in the phillipines is the same thing happening in Hawaii. Developers building sky rises that only the rich mainlanders can afford, driving up housing prices and driving the locals out elsewhere. Pretty sad.
That's pretty much it, let's put it this way. My rent here is more than the average Filipino makes a month and it's not much more than what I was paying in Vegas. My building opened in April and has some very nice amenities like a spa (12 bucks for an hour shiatsu or Thai) arcade with over 100 Xbox or Ps3 games, modern gym, home movie theater concierge desk. The only thing it doesn't offer is laundry facilities but there are plenty of places to get it done early cheap. It's pretty bizarre because most of the people I see in my neighborhood are Australians/Kiwis/Brits and Koreans. Although I have two girls who work for the Spanish Embassy in my building.
I always find it incredible how quickly the buildings go up. Foundation one day, few months later it's a 50+ story building
I wonder the same. It takes like 4 months it feels like for a giant condo in Bed-stuy to go up. These tall sh!ts are being built everywhere in Brooklyn in less than 6 months.
That one that is now overlooking Central Park looks bigger than the Empire State Building. I don't even remember a building being there last year. It's crazy. I use to live in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood. All the buildings in that little west side pocket are 6-7 stories, now surrounded by luxury high-rises. The high-rises went up fast as fuck. It's just a matter of time now until that entire neighborhood is high-rises. Like CMan said Manhattan is built on solid bedrock. It's a blessing and a curse; probably mostly a blessing.
no. I'm currently a broke college student working on and off. Owners on my block rent out for roughly $3,000. There are new condos and such being built ALL OVER Beford Ave and up and down Myrtle but usually as soon as they are finish being built, 5 generations of Ascetic Jews fill them up.
Just checked Zillow.com for the studio apartment on 2nd ave. I used to rent 28 years ago for $600. The rent estimate is $3100 and the sale estimate is $9.9 Mil for 516 sq. ft. I was actually surprised the rent estimate was not higher but the sale estimate is insane, must be for the entire 6 unit bldg. When I lived there the Nigerian Consulate was going up next door, I paid $600 a month to be able to hear pile drivers going at 7 in the morning.
