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FSogol

(47,418 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 03:55 PM Mar 2017

World's Longest Skyscraper [View all]

One World Trade Center is the tallest building in New York City and the United States at 1,776-feet-tall. 217 W. 57th Street will become the tallest skyscraper in New York when it is completed in 2019 at 1,550 feet. One Vanderbilt won’t be much shorter when it reaches its planned height of 1,401 feet in 2020. It’s no secret with all of these planned and under construction skyscrapers in the Big Apple, New York has become infatuated with the intoxicating allure of the supertall.

An architecture firm based in New York and Athens, however, has created a conceptual skyscraper that would surpass all of these towers at 4,000 feet. But there is a catch: the building wouldn’t be 4,000 feet tall, it would be 4,000 feet long.



building Design and Construction article here:
https://www.bdcnetwork.com/world%E2%80%99s-longest-skyscraper?eid=240347864&bid=1700172
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