220 Central Park South
Notice how thin its profile is? What's this? I spy another building
going up very close to this one. Well, will you look at that?
Behold! A building so famous it doesn't even need numbers in its address. From Wikipedia: "Central Park Tower, also known as the Nordstrom Tower, is a residential supertall skyscraper along Billionaires' Row on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises 1,550 feet (472 m) and is the second-tallest skyscraper in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, the 13th tallest building in the world, the tallest residential building in the world, and the tallest building outside Asia by roof height."
Central Park Tower
Notice how each building has quite a good view
almost directly across from each other?
Pilots have got to hate those mirror-like windows. Eek.
ReplyDeleteBeing a former resident of San Francisco, all I can say is it's a good thing NYC doesn't get earthquakes...
ReplyDeleteMark Alexander - They do, indeed, get quakes, but they're few and far between and not very strong.
ReplyDeletenice and interesting!
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