Trump World Tower
WHEN THE developer Donald Trump announced that he was planning to build the world’s tallest residential building next to the United Nations, local residents understandably feared it would obstruct views and overwhelm the neighborhood. The initial renderin
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UNITED NATIONS PLAZA
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COSTAS KONDYLIS ,
2002
between the floors. The all-concrete construction method allowed the building to go up in a mere 18 months, cutting down on construction costs and perhaps circumventing community opposition at the same time. Anchored in bedrock two stories below the ground, 27 concrete columns outline the perimeter of the base, lessening in number as the height increases. The columns are lashed together with a full-story concrete “belt” midway that creates a tube around the outside of the columns. A similar concrete band at the top provides lateral strength. At the crown, a 600-ton damper mass that responds by computer to wind forces gives the tower stability in high winds; this is the first 1 such system to be used in a residential building. Set atop a broad, two-story base, the tower rises without setbacks, with its broad side h e n t h e developer Donald as 90 stories tall, because that would be its Trump announced that he was height if the floors were the conventional height along the axis of the riverfront to maximize planning to build the world’s of 8 feet. Some of the Trump apartments are pre- views and harmonize with the alignment of the UN Secretariat. The most appealing aspects of tallest residential building next to war scale with maid’s rooms, floor-to-ceiling the United Nations, local residents understand- windows, and unusually luxurious 10- to 16-foot the slab are its dark-bronze, ultra-slick skin and ably feared it would obstruct views and overceiling heights. For two years, the Trump World its daringly narrow proportions. It is one of the whelm the neighborhood. The initial renderings Tower reigned as the tallest all-residential tower slenderest towers in the city, and its great height only serves to exaggerate the effect. certainly looked threatening: a glitzy, bronzein the world, until it was surpassed by the 883The glass skin is one of the sheerest walls skinned slab that stood out like a nouveau-riche foot-tall 21st Century Tower in Dubai, United in New York, outside of Gordon Bunshaft’s arriviste against the staid older buildings of Arab Emirates. Turtle Bay and Sutton Place and outshone the If one can say such a thing about a Trump Marine Midland Bank Building at 140 Broadway. Except for a barely traced grid of siliiconic UN Secretariat. production, the design by the New York archicon seams between the panes, the sleek skin Then came the argument over just how tect Costas Kondylis is reticent rather than tall the city was going to allow the Trump World brash. The curtain wall is a deep bronze, appear- appears to be a single sheet of glass towering Tower to be. Civic groups like the Municipal Art ing almost black under overcast skies, so that the two-dimensionally over the observer. The uncompromising smoothness of the surface, its Society—who tend to like the city the way it is, freestanding tower recedes and blends into the stark verticality, and its narrowness give the slab or, better yet, as it used to be—tried to put a cap East River skyline instead of ove
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