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In this episode... I can't tell you how
many times we sat around a table and

said they wanted to do what?

I think we still have to pinch ourselves
when we look at this building.

The world's most slender skyscraper.

No one has ever put together a project
as unique and as special as this.

And the pioneering historic innovations.

It's deflecting quite a bit. We have to
find another way to make it stiffer

against the lateral force of the wind.

I can't even imagine how windy it could
be here in a storm.

The forces must be just enormous.

That made the impossible possible.

New York City is the most densely
populated city in the United States.

The iconic island of Manhattan draws
millions from around the globe to live,

work, and play, and its real estate is
among the most expensive in the world.

Engineer John Schakalski is one of the
countless inhabitants that call the city

that never sleeps home.

So it's about 8 .6 million people all
trying to live in the same space in New

York.

It's incredible because there's never a
dull moment. There's always crowded

streets.

Everyone wants to live on the island of
Manhattan.

And with nearly 3 million people
commuting to this 23 -square -mile

day for work, engineers have nowhere
left to build but up.

New York is synonymous with skyscrapers,
or the Woolworth Building, Chrysler

Building, Empire State Building.

So as the population continues to grow,
you need to come up with creative ways

of how to build supertalls in Manhattan.

Today, engineers are pushing the
boundaries of design and technology

than ever before.

is 111 West 57th Street.

With unparalleled 360 -degree views of
Central Park in downtown Manhattan, this

record -breaking skyscraper is the
thinnest building ever constructed.

Designing a building like this is a once
-in -a -lifetime opportunity.

This is definitely one of the most
complicated, if not the most

residential buildings around the world
right now.

What you don't see is all of the
engineering feats that are behind the

You have all these different components
that are tied together that are just

incredible.

This gravity -defying giant marks the
dawn of a new age of skyscraper.

It takes about seven and a half minutes
to get all the way up.

It's a pretty nice ride.

Going all the way up, Tommy.

Once you clear all the surrounding lower
buildings at this height, it's another

planet, another world.

This is the reason why we're building
this.

So right now we're standing higher than
any viewing platform in all of New York.

When you're up at this elevation, you
got... 360 -degree views of everything

surrounding Manhattan.

You've got Central Park to the north,
Statue of Liberty, the Freedom Tower.

It really is just breathtaking.

111's daring construction team reach
heights few have ever been to.

They are the only people to have ever
experienced the tower's unrivaled views

over New York City.

Up here, we have ironworkers. They're
bolting up, erecting the steel.

It's pretty challenging up at 1 ,300
feet in the air, up to 1 ,400 feet. It's

pretty intense.

Every day, I'm blown away by the amount
of engineering and time and planning it

goes into putting this type of a
building in place.

Built over the historic Steinway Concert
Hall, 111 West 57th Street sits on an

incredibly small plot of land.

Once complete, this 84 -story, 1 ,428
-foot -tall building will be one of the

tallest residential towers in the city.

With a width -to -height ratio of 1 to
24, it is the thinnest skyscraper in the

world. A mix of bronze, glass, and
terracotta cover the tower's enormous 1

,257 -foot concrete sheer walls.

At the top... A 170 -foot -high steel
crown will make this tower the second

tallest residential building in the
Western Hemisphere.

What gets me out of bed in the morning
is to take on the challenges of

this, putting this job together, and
getting it to completion.

So there's no rest until it's done.

But this ambitious project poses serious
engineering challenges.

How do you strengthen a skinny structure
without giving up floor space?

The challenge is how do we get rid of
columns like this, minimize it, open up

the floor space?

You can't just take the columns out.

There needs to be something there that
supports the actual structure itself.

And how do you prevent such an
incredibly thin tower from collapsing in

winds?

Cynthia Liu and her structural
engineering team are experts in coming

unconventional design solutions.

As we can see here, this is the existing
Steinway building, and next to the

Steinway building is the new plot we
have to work with.

From this angle, you can really see how
narrow the new building is.

Before construction began, engineers had
a 59 -foot wide site to build on.

In order for the building to stand up
tall like this, we have to engineer it

a way so the building can stay as is.

As you can see, the building is slender
and it doesn't have a lot of footprint

to sustain the load that applies to the
building.

Most buildings will have the load
imposed on the rocks.

But here, because the building is
slender and it has to take the wind

the foundation of the building, there's
a lot of uplifting load.

It needs to be engineered and taken care
of so the building doesn't fly away in

the wind.

Without a wide base to support the
tower, how can engineers brace it

wind?

To achieve the impossible, engineers
will need to draw inspiration from the

pioneers of the past.

Cork Harbor, a vast network of busy
shipping channels on the south coast of

Ireland, where engineer Magda
Heidikevich is searching for a relic of

navigation.

For hundreds of years, the beautiful
Cork Harbor has been a very busy port.

It was a gateway for trade and migration
and a very important naval base.

The waterways connecting to the city are
very shallowed places and require

careful navigation.

Otherwise, the ships can run aground.

There used to be floating lights to
indicate the shallow waters of Cork

However, they would move around and can
be even destroyed in stormy conditions.

A more permanent structure was needed to
withstand the force of the tide.

Despite being blind since the age of 22,

engineer Alexander Mitchell had no
problem visualizing a solution.

In 1833, he patented a device that
enabled him to build a structure where

could before.

This is the Spitbank Lighthouse.

It was built in 1853, 166 years ago, and
it still

withstands the powerful forces of the
ocean.

Protruding from the water on nine 46
-foot -long wrought iron stilts, this

iconic beacon stands in stark contrast
to traditional stone lighthouses on the

shore.

What Mitchell decided to do was place
nine stilts that would be sitting... on

the seabed. However, that wasn't good
enough to withstand the powerful lateral

forces of the tide and also lateral
forces of the wind.

He had to extend those stills down to
the ground, but those stills could be

pulled off from the ground. So he had to
anchor them down.

So the very crucial part of the solution
are the ingenious anchors that Mitchell

came up with.

To secure the stilts 16 feet below the
seabed, Mitchell relied on his own

brilliant invention.

Drawing inspiration from the corkscrew,
he deployed crews on floating rafts to

turn the supports and twist them into
the ground.

Fastening the framework to the seafloor
has locked it in place against the

wildest winds and waves.

meters above the seabed. It's really
windy, very strong lateral wind forces

tidal forces.

I can't even imagine how it could be
here in a storm.

The forces must be just enormous.

But the structure is not going anywhere.

It's very stable.

The anchors holding this structure
stable in such strong wings would become

handy when building a tall skyscraper.

Spitbank Lighthouse has become an icon
for the city of Cork.

Standing proud in the bay is testament
to the resilience of ground anchoring.

When Mitchell designed the structure to
withstand the forces of waves and winds,

he made it stronger than anyone could
have imagined.

I doubt he thought that this structure
would still be here 166 years later.

Mitchell's novel solution of anchoring
to the ground wasn't just meant for the

sea. Today, when people want to build
taller, they have to take into account

strong lateral forces that the structure
must withstand.

What an amazing engineering solution.

In Manhattan, engineers have taken
Mitchell's ground anchor concept and

supersized it.

in order to secure New York's third
largest tower to the ground.

New York City is best known for its
iconic skyline.

But in this densely populated
metropolis, Engineers are running out of

build, so they are forced to come up
with an innovative solution that allows

them to build not only super tall, but
super skinny.

At 1 ,428 feet high, 111 West 57th
Street is the world's thinnest

tower.

This remarkable 84 -story residential
building features a 1 to 24 width to

height ratio, soaring high above
Billionaire's Row.

But securing New York's third tallest
tower to the ground is a major anchoring

system challenge.

So engineers have taken Alexander
Mitchell's ground anchoring concept to

next level.

Tasked with fastening the building in
place, engineer Cynthia Liu is heading

down to the lowest accessible part of
the building.

In order for the building not to tip
over, we have 192 rock anchors.

This is the rock anchor that's used on
this job, which is, as you can see, it's

pretty heavy, and it's hard to lift,
even a small piece like this.

And we have about 50 of them in this
wall here.

The rock anchors we have here, we use
them as heavy as you can get on the

market.

Once the foundations of the historic
Steinway building are carefully

and incredible 192 gigantic steel rods
are drilled nearly 80 feet down into the

bedrock.

In this case, they're not screwed in,
but instead they expand to lock into the

rock. As lateral wind hits the tower,
the anchors can withstand a tremendous

uplifting force of 57 ,320 tons.

This is the design drawing that we
issued for this building.

You can see all the little dots
representing the rock anchors.

All the forces are transferred to the
rock anchors in the area.

The rock anchors transfer to the rock
underneath, so the force is transferred

from the top all the way to the bottom.

Building on Mitchell's remarkable
concept, the team has installed one of

highest concentrations of ground anchors
seen on any skyscraper in the world.

Each rock anchor is about three inches
in diameter, and they vary from 50 feet

to 75 feet deep below the rock. So
that's holding the building.

Without the rock anchors, the building
definitely will turn over in the wind

load. So definitely we need the rock
anchors to hold the building down.

Now that a strong foothold has been
established, the Super Slender

can rise into the clouds.

The first stage of this megaproject is
complete, but engineers face more

impossible challenges.

Sixty vast apartments will each occupy
at least one entire floor, as well as

six two -story penthouses.

But high winds equal high stakes.

Even once secured into the rock, The
superstructure is exposed to the

elements. Protecting it from bending and
breaking is the top priority for

project director John Schakalski.

So down here, we're about 50 feet down
below street level. And you can see that

these massive columns act to take the
load of the structure from the wind and

transfer it down floor to floor to floor
into the foundation.

As you get into the superstructure where
you're trying to create these luxurious

apartments with grand views of all of
Manhattan, you don't want a giant column

like this in the middle of your living
room or dining room.

So you can't just take the columns out.
You need something there to hold up the

building.

Both floor space and rigidity are
crucial in a residential high -rise.

Defending the slender tower from
breaking in the wind might be impossible

without the innovators of the past.

Chicago, the Windy City.

Known for a skyline punctuated by
soaring skyscrapers.

This view never gets old.

It's one of the world's great skylines.

Architect and historian Tom Leslie is in
search of a daring innovation amongst

the city's towering giants.

Chicago is the city that really pushed
the development of tall buildings

than any other city.

This was a real laboratory for tall
building construction.

So the big development was to move away
from brick construction and to replace

that with steel.

As buildings get taller and taller, they
start to get so tall that the steel

frames are too flexible. They move too
much in the wind.

And there's a limit to how tall you can
build a steel frame.

Beyond that, engineers are looking for
another way to help stiffen the

buildings.

To demonstrate the problem, Tom has
scaled it down.

So we have here a working wind tunnel
that's used to test skyscrapers, see how

they respond to wind.

We're going to use it to test this model
of a frame.

We have girders, we have beams.

So we have here a curtain wall.

It has no structural capability on its
own. It's very much like a glass skin

that you would hang on the outside of
the structure.

We've turned the wind on, and as you can
see, it's having quite an effect on our

building frame.

It's deflecting quite a bit, and it's
moving quite a lot. It's not a building

any of us would ever want to be in.

We have to find another way to help
stabilize it, to make it stiffer against

lateral force of the wind.

So one way we can stiffen the frame is
we can take pieces of the building that

we already have, elevator cores, fire
stairs, things like that, and we can put

very massive stiff core around them. But
a large core, or even column, take up

valuable floor space.

So what we've done is we've taken our
giant core, and we've put it right in

middle of the building structure.

It's bearing on several of the beams,
which in turn are sitting on the

So you can see that the central core is
working. It's stabilizing the building.

But you can also see that the frame is
still moving quite a bit.

The other problem with such a massive
core is that it's taking up more space

than we'd like. We're not able to rent
out the space that's within the core.

When faced with the challenge of bracing
a tower without compromising floor

space... Engineer Fazler Khan conceived
an ingenious way to utilize pre

-existing structural components.

His remarkable space -saving technique
was the shear wall interaction system.

We can take the wind resistance that
that massive core has and spread it out

into a pair of shear walls.

tall planes that line each side of the
building and resist the wind.

This spreads the resistance that the
core has out, which will give us the

floor plates that we want.

With rigid exterior walls, the size of
the inner core can be reduced.

And Kahn's clever addition was to
connect the components with stiff

floor plates so that the whole system
worked as one.

We've turned the wind on, and as you can
see, all of the pieces of the building

are working together. We're taking
advantage of the stiffness of the shear

walls, the stiffness of the core, the
stiffness of the floor plates.

All of them are working together to
create an integrated wind -resistant

And Kahn was able to prove his theory
worked on a scale never seen before.

is the Brunswick building, the world's
first tower to be supported by sheer

interaction.

The Brunswick's exterior structure is
four massive sheer walls.

On the inside, there's a set of sheer
walls within the building core.

To tie these two systems together,

Kahn designed very, very stiff concrete
floors that ensure that when one system

moves, the other system has to move as
well.

things that were already there and so
the floor plates in the brunswick

are all open between the core and the
exterior wall more than 80 percent of

every floor is rentable which is an
incredibly high number for the era

sheer wall interaction the brunswick
building opened in 1965 as the tallest

reinforced concrete structure in the
world

The Brunswick was a building that was
miles ahead of its time when it was

and it's a building that was influential
for generations, even down to today.

At New York's Guy High megastructure,
engineers are taking Kahn's pioneering

technique to new heights.

Just like in Chicago, they are bracing
the high -rise with a sheer wall

interaction system on a colossal scale.

111 West 57th Street is on track to
become the thinnest skyscraper in the

But in order to endure high winds, it
will need a very sturdy structure.

So engineers are bracing the high rise
with a shear wall interaction system.

So here we are on the lower floors of
the actual superstructure, and you can

how big the shear walls are. They're
over five feet thick down at the base of

the building.

They're pretty massive.

The shear walls here extend about 60
feet below street level to 1 ,257 feet

the air.

They are some of the tallest shear walls
on the planet.

The interaction system at 111 West 57th
Street has five shear walls all working

in unison.

The east and west walls form the
exterior structure.

and flank three core shear walls,
including the elevator shaft.

As 1 .3 million cubic feet of concrete
is poured one floor at a time, the

configuration rises like an oversized I
-beam to over 1 ,247 feet high.

As the mammoth shear walls climb to the
highest levels of the tower, they

undergo a transformation.

So here we are on one of the upper
duplexes in the tower.

And as we get higher up in the building,
the sheer walls take a step in two

directions. They lengthwise, they
shorten up, and widthwise.

So you can imagine this wall was over
this wide down in the subcellar. And as

you got up into the building, it's about
a foot and a half thick. By having

thinner walls up top, it increases the
usable floor space.

apartment space actually on the floor
plan.

Not only do the shear walls taper in
width, they also take steps in length to

create the tower's feathered profile.

85 stiff concrete floors tie the system
together, forming one massive monolithic

structure. Should wind hit from any
direction, the load is transferred

the rigid components.

downward into the 66 -foot thick
concrete foundations.

So the giant columns you saw down in the
basement no longer exist up here, which

opens up the entire floor space.

By pushing the limit of concrete
construction, the monumental project at

West 57th Street can climb into the sky.

The shear walls act just so much more
than regular walls. They're transferring

all the forces down into the foundation.

Without the shear walls, there's no way
this building would have been possible.

All the engineering that's gone into the
design of the shear walls, being able

to handle all the outside forces, is
just unprecedented.

With the monster shear walls topped out,
the building stands proud over New

York.

But left untouched, a colossal concrete
pillar could be an eyesore on the city

skyline.

Architect Dana Getman has a creative
solution to make the super -slender

out. This tower is really unique in that
the east and west facades are the

structure. And to really take advantage
of that, we clad it with this beautiful

terracotta, which we designed with a
waving undulation of shapes that will

create a shadow pattern as the sun casts
across the facade.

When we started the design process, we
really looked at the DNA of New York

buildings. We really wanted to get that
richness, but in a contemporary design.

But the building's distinctive form
makes facade installation extremely

challenging.

It is unique to have double shear walls
on the exterior of your building. Most

of the time when people install a
curtain wall, you slide it to the edge

hang it from the floor above. But when
you're installing it on a shear wall,

it's a little bit more complicated.

With solid concrete obstructing the way.

The team has come up with a one -of -a
-kind installation method to navigate

unique wall configuration.

The team here on site built a custom
gantry to be able to take the facade

to their position on the shear wall.

Once hooked up to the crane, facade
panels are flown out over the city

hundreds of feet above the street.

The enormous pieces are traversed around
the outside of the sheer walls to the

installation team on the gigantic two
-stage hanging gantry.

They have to change hands several times
in a precise and delicate procedure to

fix them to the east and west sheer
walls.

The result is a striking hybrid of New
York's Art Deco heritage with the

-edge architecture of the future.

I am incredibly impressed with the team
here on site and how smoothly the

installation has gone.

When you look at the building from a
distance, you see the waves of shadow

you really see the impact of this
building on the skyline.

We couldn't be happier with it.

But to realize their dreams of creating
extraordinary apartments, engineers face

yet another challenge.

So our units are 15 foot 6 from floor to
floor, and that creates the need for a

larger piece of glass in order to
maximize the views that we have.

To create more impossible engineering,
the team will have to go back in time.

Oh, wow, I can see the ripples.

So that's the glass floating on the
team.

Soaring over New York's prestigious
Billionaire's Row is the city's latest

project.

111 West 57th Street is the world's
thinnest skyscraper.

Rising into the sky, it towers above the
neighbors and the city below.

Construction of the third tallest tower
in New York is nearing completion.

The project's final phase is underway,
preparing 60 luxury apartments for

habitation.

All right, are you going all the way up?

Yeah.

When you're done, we've got to pick up
on one.

But to make the whole development
worthwhile, senior project manager Pat

and his team have one last challenge to
conquer.

So right now we're in Ahoyt, which runs
the north side of the building.

You know, looking north from east to
west, we're dead center looking over

Central Park. It's a pretty incredible
spot.

The units that we have for this building
are going to be the only units on 57th

Street that are going to have a dead
center view over Central Park.

Pat's team must take advantage of the
tower's unrivaled views of the city.

Not an easy mission to accomplish in
such enormous living spaces.

So our units are 15 foot 6 from floor to
floor.

That creates the need for a larger piece
of glass in order to maximize the views

that we have.

We need to find a solution to make sure
that we can see them perfectly from the

units.

To find vast window panes worthy of the
unprecedented panoramic youth, the team

must look to the pioneers of the past.

St. Helens in the north of England.

Legendary for industrial innovation.

Where physicist Susie Sheehy is heading
underground in search of a development

that shook the world of glass
production.

These tunnels are actually below a glass
melting furnace.

And all around here there would have
been coal fires that would have been so

for the workers working down here.

What they were aiming for was to make
large panes of glass for windows that

clear and strong and free of blemishes.

So they'd take molten glass and pour it
over a metal tray where it would cool

down. But the result was something that
was imperfect. It was blemished and

rough. So then they'd have to grind and
polish it.

Even then, the panes they made were not
super big. It was only up to a couple of

metres. So to get something even bigger
and better, they'd actually have to come

up with a totally new solution.

But for Sir Alistair Pilkington, the
answer was crystal clear.

In the 1950s, he developed a
revolutionary new process.

So this place is the solution that
Pilkington came up with. And it's

incredible. I've just seen in front of
me here this huge...

really flat sheet of glass absolutely
beautiful

Pilkington's float glass innovation

quite literally broke the mold it's so
flat because they pour

molten glass onto a bar of molten tin
and that's so flat that it comes out in

these enormous sheets they're just
incredible

This cutting -edge plant has modernized
its machinery, but remains true to

Pilkington's technique.

Oh, wow.

I can feel the heat radiating off this.

For any glass production process, a sand
-based mixture must first be melted to

a scorching 2 ,912 degrees Fahrenheit.

But what sets this extraordinary method
apart is what happens next.

Woo!

Nice.

In the 1950s, Sir Alistair Pilkington
invented the float glass process, a

revolutionary method to manipulate the
size and thickness of glass.

After a sand -based mixture is melted at
nearly 3 ,000 degrees, it is fed into a

molten tin bath chamber.

So this is about 25 kg, so it's quite
heavy.

We just step to the side and place it
into the box.

That's amazing.

And now I get to push it in.

Yeah, if you just stand back, just push
it gently in.

That's it.

Did I do?

All right.

Just leave it there, and you'll see it
melted away now.

Oh, wow. I can see the ripples. Yeah,
yeah, that's the tin. So that's the

bath of milk? That's the actual tin.
That's what the glass is called. Wow.

If you look at it straight up there,
that line that you can see, that's the

actual glass there. So that's the glass
floating on the tin. It just looks like

a mirror.

Does, yeah? Yeah.

As a liquid, molten tin sits perfectly
flat.

Glass from the furnace is slowly poured
over the lake of metal.

And being less dense than the tin, it
floats atop the surface, spreading and

cooling in a flawlessly smooth sheet.

The glass leaves the bath with so few
impurities that it's crystal clear and

incredibly strong.

Properties that would make for great
skyscraper windows.

So this section is where the solid glass
comes out.

And it's really beautiful and flat and
clear, perfect for windows.

But when they first started using this
float method, they had glass that was

just six meters long.

But now... They've perfected it to the
point where they can just get a

unbroken flow of glass over this 600
-meter length.

And this one here, it works 24 hours, 7
days a week, and hasn't switched off for

more than 7 years.

It's so reliable.

It's an unbelievable method.

The float line can run continuously for
20 years, producing around 479 million

feet of glass, enough to wrap around the
Earth.

three and a half thousand times.

So as it comes out here, I can't see a
single imperfection in these panes.

This method just produces perfect glass.

And that's only possible because of this
slow glass method.

70 years after Pilkington's inspired
idea.

New York's greatest engineering minds
are using float glass to provide views

unlike any other on Earth.

Pat Feehan is overseeing the
installation of 111 supersized insulated

units. So on the exterior facade, this
is the exterior facade of the glass.

So there's three individual pieces of
float glass made up into these glazed

units. They have two pieces of laminated
glass on the exterior facade.

And then one piece of a slightly larger,
thicker glass on the interior beside

with a 12 -millimeter argon gap.

The technology that goes into the glass
in particular allow us to make the

panels that we can make today. And if it
wasn't for the float glass, we wouldn't

be able to make panels like this.

The tower's massive glass panels owe
their immense strength and clarity to

float glass method.

To the actual essence of the glass
itself.

Pretty fundamental, but the technology
that's come around along it that have

allowed us to get larger panes of glass,
stronger glass, to allow us to push the

material as far as we can go.

Although each apartment has solid east
and west sheer walls, they're completely

open to the north and south.

The team's task is to fill a void over
59 feet wide and nearly 16 feet high on

each floor with huge panels of crystal
clear glass.

to minimize view -obstructing joints.

The largest panel, which will form the
centerpiece of each apartment, weighs

over one ton, as much as a small car.

Installing these massive window panes at
extreme heights is an intense

operation.

And the team will have to carefully pull
off a daring act of engineering.

In New York City, engineers are
preparing to install massive glass

on a groundbreaking new residential
skyscraper.

So right now we're getting ready to
install this panel, so we're going to be

flying it out from this floor.

The tower crane's going to come down
with the hook. We're going to hook it

and we're going to send that panel out
and install until 69.

It's not a typical install because the
panel is so large, gets caught in the

wind, it could flow around.

Everyone has to be on their game a
little bit more.

To be doing this work, you have to be
able to deal with the heights and be

to deal with working on the slab edge,
which is not an easy thing to do.

The fearless installation team pushes
extreme construction to the very edge.

The oversized heavyweight panel is
lowered five floors down.

One wrong move could spell catastrophe.

We're going down to level 69 where this
panel's going to get installed.

With the success of the installation
hanging in the balance, the team needs

work quickly to secure the panel into
the interlocking weather seal.

Hold that.

So, you know, we have one panel now
installed of over 6 ,500 total on the

building.

And selling panels one at a time, you
know, it doesn't feel like you're

anywhere, but after a while, they start
to add up. We're on the 69th floor right

now, installing panels. We're
approaching the end, which is kind of

There's a lot of amazing things about
111 West 57th Street, but I think one of

the key things and one of the biggest
selling points is the view that we have

here. The technology that has gone into
making glass has progressed so much over

time that it allows us to make panels
the size that we have here, to have them

as clear as they are, to have the views
that we have.

You know, we have the whole entire
skyline to look at. It's kind of

For the team behind this daring project,
the engineering achievement is

immeasurable.

Looking at a postcard 20 years from now
at the skyline of Manhattan, it's going

to be a building that I built on that.
It's kind of incredible.

Every day we look at the building, see
it grow.

It's really incredible, and we feel like
very lucky to be part of the team to

work on this.

No matter which aspect you look at this
building, it has definitely enhanced the

New York City skyline. It's taken pieces
of old New York and new New York and

combined them together and created
something that the world has never seen

before.

The super -slender skyscraper that has
defied the impossible.

Pushing the limits on tower construction
further than ever before.

A new landmark vanishing into the
clouds, changing New York's skyline

Standing testament to the incredible
work of some of New York's greatest

engineering minds.

111 West 57th Street represents
impossible engineering on a staggering

Every stage of this groundbreaking
enterprise poses unimaginable

When we first started this project, I
knew we were doing something special.

This is one of the most unique
superstructures that you could ever put

But by building on the work of the
pioneers of the past, overcoming huge

challenges, and pushing the boundaries
of innovation.

I'm incredibly proud to be working on
this project. It's incredible, and it's

more than I could have asked for.

We really saw it as an opportunity to do
something that both spoke to the past,

but also looked to the future, and to
see it not just through design, but now

almost complete.

physically here is really an incredible
experience.

The engineers are succeeding in making
the impossible possible.

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