The INSANE Engineering of New York's New Skyscraper

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[saosaqii]

It just sounds so wobbly, like balancing a pencil on the tip, but I’m sure the engineers would make it work.

[joermnyc]

Apparently this can hold 15, 000 employees, but is that a good idea when many midtown office buildings are empty and talk is underway to change laws on height limits for residential buildings so office towers can be converted into housing?

[cjckilla]

For having worked in the MTA subways and really seeing the decay and crumbling infrastructure. I would think that the subway tunnel is the last part of the city to use as your foundation for a skyscraper lol

[danielwhyatt]

Seriously. This is just some insanely high level in dangerous engineering work right here. So much weight and balance put into so few support posts going right down into the ground. I can’t wait to see the building completed.

[b.griffin]

"The new tower will be almost twice the height of the old one" - and just as empty. Ah, Manhattan real estate.

[hagencarter]

This building looks like it would fit in great with the Chicago skyline. Looks a lot like if the John Hancock and Willis Towers had a love child

[ryanjohnson]

What I’m seeing is that this thing will be carefully balanced on toothpicks

[ferexpress]

Sadly a lot of empty office buildings all over the city and thousands of homeless everywhere.

[diecicatorce]

I'm an engineer but not an architect, and I'm sure those architects know what they're doing, but I think the general public will be a bit uncomfortable sitting right under the skyscraper, at least for the first few months or when there's a lot of wind, it looks very fragile

[donfisher]

The bottom level was raised up one floor? WTF?
And diagonal support. The math and stress loads are beyond me.

[GeorgeDoughty-me]

When all these engineers went to school, everyone got a trophy!

[sleepless]

As someone who isn’t an engineer, this is going to collapse

[branplore]

The east coast of the US does not have earthquakes. On the rare occasion an ancient fault line moves, the buildings are designed to withstand the force of the ground movement, which is low on the Richter scale compared to other areas of the world. In 2011, the biggest earthquake on record for the east coast in the US was only a 5.8, and that was the first/only one I've ever felt here in 30 years. There really wasn't any damage to any of the skyscrapers/buildings in NYC or any other major city.

[darksoulsss]

I like the fact that this isn't a boring blue glass stick. Unlike so many others.

[jeffmurray]

Reinforcing the shearwalls and pilings underneath the subway seems like quite a engineering accomplishment !

[dsm]

interesting how they could drill those piles under the subway. I think those V shape columns are going to be a lateral week spot.

[hansonel]

I wasn't the biggest fan of the black box 1960's building that was torn down but now that it's gone and this is going up I kind of miss it.... Did JP Morgan Chase really have to tear it down in-order to "modernize" the office space....? So many buildings are getting torn down and too many supertalls are cluttering up the Midtwon skyline IMO.

[VentiVonOsterreich]

Engineers finding more and more ways to increase the chances of a structural collapse

[krupalsinh]

Damn that looks like it'd fall over if a child nudged it a little 😂

[hometv-sr]

For some reason I am not getting the trust I need to be around that building. If I am ever in town I will make sure I stay atleast 423M away from the building in any direction. This looks far too scary and I wonder why they’d use the old building foundations. Well, I hope everything works out just fine. Good luck.